Ok so the seems Sunday's game where the Jays dominated the Red Sox wasn't necessarily a fluke as they went on to do it against the San Francisco Giants 10-6 (though the back end of the bullpen blew 4 runs so if it were the usuals, that being Janssen, Oliver and Santos, chances are it would have been 10-2). And surprisingly Dickey was solid, now I don't mean I was expecting him to be shit for the rest of the season, on the contrary I thought he would get close to his Cy Young form from last year, I just thought it would take a bit of time since he was 'working through' back and neck soreness that was hampering his ability to throw his knuckler at 80+ MPH. But after his first couple innings he dominated the game, got 10 strikeouts and limited the Giants to only 8 base runners in the 6 innings he pitched, which is a huge improvement over the bad starts he's had previously this season. Other good things about this game are that again, just like Sunday's game, the offence just demolished the opposing pitcher every player who started the game got at least 1 hit except Blanco, but he's there more to catch Dickey than provide the team with any significant offence.
As well the Giants decided to give Melky Cabrera a World Series ring, now when I heard this I thought it was VERY strange (and I still do) because they kept him out of the line up after he returned from his suspension and didn't use him in any playoff games. It honestly seemed like they were trying to spite him (and don't get me wrong, I don't like players who cheat with performance enhancing drugs at all, but when you look at Melky's numbers during his time with Kansas and then with the Giants there wasn't a huge increase in power numbers and with the rate that he's hitting now he could easily get back to those numbers this year). The testosterone didn't seem to be doing much to enhance his batting ability. Anyway it just seemed extremely odd that they would go through all facets to keep him out of the playoffs and their field and then just try to make nice half a year later, it kinda felt like that kind of situation where a bully is being forced to apologize to a kid he bullied by his parents.
So tomorrow we've got for the Jays, Ramon Ortiz vs. Ryan Vogelsong (who has been on a downward trend) so we'll see if they can continue to get their offence to crush the ball.
On the side of the Cardinals, not much going on, their Tuesday game against the Mets was for lack of a better word 'meh', they had a rookie pitcher going against Dillion Gee, who has been bad as of late and they beat them 10-4, but in typical rookie fashion their pitcher broke down in the 6th and gave up 4 runs. And Monday's gave wasn't all that dissimilar either Lynn went in gave up 3 runs on 7 innings and they won it 6-3. No crushing offence or stellar pitching performances in either game, guess they had to level out after those 2 ridiculous games Wainwright and Miller pitched last week.
Though tomorrows game for the Cardinals ought to be a little more interesting as we have Shelby Miller going up against Shaun Marcum who recently came back from surgery (and he's shown he can be near ace level before). So look forward to catching that game.
-Eric
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