Rays beat the Orioles 4-3

3 HRs in 2 games, steady on Vernon. I guess he's pretty desperate to shake that "Worst Contact In Baseball" tag he thoroughly earned over the last two seasons.

What a bizarre game last night. Blues Jays had 4 hits, 3 of them HRs, 2 of which were solo shots. They were 0 for 9 with RISP and stranded 11 on base. Yet they manged to score 7 runs!

This was mostly thanks to some dreadful pitching by the Rangers and a lot of patience at the plate in which the Jays got 10 BB and 2 HBP. Their 2 runs in the 4th came via HBP, walk, fielding error, walk, walk YIKES!

That said, apart from giving up back 2 back homers, Tallet pitched surprisingly well and definitely deserved the victory. Still, looking at the freaky stats you can't help but think WTF?

The Jays also have yet to single this season. I guess it being Texas, they're all just swinging for the fences.

Afternoon game today and thank fook for the See AUP section 1.2b iPhone app. It's the absolute dogs doodahs.

Watched game 3 last night. 0-0 going into the seventh tham whammy.

I'm still pretty stunned that we staged a comeback in the 9th inning. I can't remember seeing that all last season.

VW on track for 200+ homers in 2010. If he got close he might almost be earning that fat contract.

Considering the huge question mark over our starting rotation without Doc, the thing that pleases me most so far is the 3 quality starts we've had.

Biggest concern is Snider, who looked completely clueless at the plate yesterday. He's too good for minor league pitching, he's shown that in the last 2 seasons. But he's struggling to handle major league pitchers. I'm not sure dropping him to AAA will achieve much but what do you do if this continues?

Brilliant game tonight at The Great American Ball Park. Good solid start from Bailey followed by three innnings with one hit in relief by Owings before Drew Stubbs belts our first grand slam of the year (we managed two in the whole of 2009) at the bottom of the 8th to go from 1-3 to 5-3.

Gets to the top of the ninth and Lee hits a homer in the second at bat of the inning making it 5-4. Cordero ends up loading the bases with two outs but he pulls it off with a grounder to him.

Excellent stuff. The Reds commentary team started light-heartedly calling them "The Cardiac Kids" after these two opening wins lol. Interesting stat mentioned though that we were something like 67-1 last year when we were leading in the 8th inning. It's part of the reason why I'm excited about the Reds this year. Our starting rotation has so much potential to click and with the improvement in team spirit, brought about by two come from behind wins, gives me some hope that we might just break into a winning season. A winning season would be a brilliant return for us this year.

Seven road games after this series against the Cubs. I think we can take two off the cubs but not confident about four at the Marlins with three at Pittsburgh after that. Tricky start but I honestly think we can compete this time. Our hitting phobia is being replaced by a similarly low hitting side but we seem to be scoring at the right times now. Votto and Hernandez have started well and I'll take timely hitting over prolific at the moment.

Blue Jays home opener tonight. I am really excited but the friend I was going with just bailed on me to kill my buzz slightly. Looks like it'll be my first solo Jays game. The 5-1 start is amazing but I think it's a bit misleading. We are still sucking hard with RISP and we can't expect to keep knocking out the long ball and picking up walks/errors. Our pitching is looking good so far, especially the BP. Casey Janssen has picked up 3 wins in 3 appearances.

So the Jays we were all expecting to see this season finally showed up last night.

11-1 loss and Brandon Morrow looking like I could get a hit from him. Valdez and Accardo gave Jesse Carlsson good reason to have his bag packed in AAA. Credit to the White Sox pitcher, who 'did a Ricky' on us last night.

With Brett Wallace raking at the plate in AAA, No-more-stache's monopoly of 1B may come to and end soon. I hope so. My reason for cutting him some slack disappeared with his Fu Manchu.

I predict a tied series with the Jays winning tonight.

Yay! I got something right

Jays have signed OF Fred Lewis from the Giants for cash or a PTBNL. Jeremy Reed's spell last 4 days as he's sent back to AAA Vegas. It's looking like this is a move to strengthen the bench. I wonder if the PTBNL will end up being Accardo, who came to the Jays from the Giants.

Wanted to go tonight to watch Marcum pitch but I'd have to go on my own again and doing that twice in one week makes me feel like a complete saddo. Looks like his next home start will be against the Red Sox so that'll do for me.

WHo is this Eveland who has started so well.

We picked him up from Oakland in February. He had an amazing spring, got to see him pitch and was very impressed. He made the rotation due to a last minute injury to Rzepczynski. He said he intends to change his aproach with each new game so that even if the opposition watch tapes of his last games, they still wont know what to expect as it'll be diferent every time. So far he's done that and it's working. Him and Gonzalez have both been excellent pick-ups by the new GM.