Buffalo Boy's Blog

These things are getting all too common this year. Another one hitter, the second by a Blue Jays pitcher in a little over a week. Same thing happened last night as the last one too. I sat down around 10:00 to watch the first couple innings and Shaun Marcum looked fantastic so I stayed right there with it.

I was up until the final pitch, though not nearly as mind blowing as the 17 strike out game by Brandon Morrow. Shaun Marcum struck out a measly 5 batters, however he walked only one, the lone hit was a big one too, a home run to Conor Jackson for all you one-hitter, "who got the one hit in that start", trivia buffs.

Don't look now but Cito has this team within 9 games now with another three series coming up to end the month against Boston, New York and Tampa with a series in there against Detriot as well. All those teams could pose a threat to the Jays wild card hopes and all are ahead of the Jays in the league standings.

I'm not going to make any bold "we will make the playoffs predictions", Im just having fun watching a team, I have been a die hard fan of, again for the first time in a long time. Like truly having fun. Win or lose this team is young and exciting to watch and the players act like they care. At the very least, my lone prediction is that we will catch the Boston Red Sox. That is saying a lot too since the Red Sox have owned us this year considering what last offseason suggested to fans, the majority of which were wrong about this team that would be as good as making the playoffs, anything above and beyond that would be icing on the cake.