It's Holland time!

The quicker to Holland the better.....

Agreed, but maybe Ned wanted Paredes to get his first AB. Like I give a ****

I guess. I'd still prefer the established MLB RH'er over the shitty minor league Lefty. Oh well.

It was sarcasm. But likely a post game comment Ned would make.

WTf was that?

Holland hasn't gotten as many swings and misses on that pitch. Is it possible he is showing it out of the glove a little too much?

One more man!

Maybe to get Paredes an AB?

Boom and game

Ugh...

Cain gets that.

Holland fooling no one. Come on, Man!

Hey, they have a fatty too!

WINNAH

Winnar!

Ball Game!

Yay... We're awesome!

Yes!

nice...nice...good win

Wow, the Jays left 12 on base tonight.....

Pitching only giving up 2 was a miracle.

I may be wrong, but I think the key is to score 4 runs

As long as we let our starters go 165 pitches every night, we're going to win this division.

Why? I'd prefer the run to getting a guy an AB. Doesn't matter now though.

Need to find moar ways to get to 4+ runs.

Ventura deserves the W.

This. Pitched out of some jams tonight

I'd settle for 100 if the guy is on fire, but hey whatever :shrug:

I hate using the dome excuse, but it pretty much applies here.

Guthrie v Buehrle tomorrow night......eh, at least we won the series:evil:

Yeah this is a bad matchup for him. But so was Baltimore in a hitters park and he did well.

Maybe a little cooler tomorrow night. Keep balls in the park for Guthrie

Yeah, but Buerhle is miles ahead of the Baltimore pitchers.

Still very little power.

If Moose, Hosmer, Gordon and Butler all hit just 20, that should be enough to get near the playoffs with this pitching.

Seems like a reasonable enough goal............on paper.

Lawrie has the kind of range to turn that into an out. Francisco has the kind of range to turn it into a double unfortunately. LMAO

Nice job tonight Ned

Tied for the 1st wild card...

(and our easy month has come to an end)

I thought for sure they'd blow it in the 8th.

I swear, for as awful as most of this month felt on occasion, I'm pretty satisfied to see them with the record they have. Hopefully May 2014 isn't May 2013: Redux.

4-0

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I'm not sure why, but we open as slight favorites tomorrow. I like betting small amounts of cash against the Royals in this situation. No matter how the game ends you are a winner.

Yeah, that's a bit of a concern. Starting Friday......

* 4 @ home vs the Tigers. Would be nice to split that series

* 7 Game Road trip with the Padres and M's - I see 3-4?

* 9 Game Home-stand with the Rox, Orioles and WSox - Those are series we have to take advantage of - 6-3

* 3 Game Trip to to Anaheim - 1-2

* 3 Games at Home v the 'Stros - need 3-0

* 4 Game trip to Toronto to finish the Month - 2-2

* That would be 17-13 in May

I think we lose tonight against Buehrle. That puts us at 14-13, and (given my above prognostication) 31-26 going into June. June's schedule looks murderous. By that time, I hope our pen has it's shit together, and Butler and Gordon have started to click with the bats. Here's hoping!

We should go at least 4-3 vs SD and SEA. Those are not good baseball teams.

The stretch of June 2-11 isn't going to be easy.
2 @ Cards
2 vs Cards
4 vs Yankees
2 vs Cleveland

Unfortunately, September isn't looking too kind. Texas, New York, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland.

To quote Ric Flair... "To be the man, you have to beat the man! Wooooooooooo"

Absolutely true. In the end if we want to make the postseason, we're going to have to straight up beat good teams and good pitching.

The Yanks have a -11 run differential. Seattle who is 11-15 has -5. The Padres and Indians are 3rd worst with -26. The Cards are at +14, we are +9 (3rd best in AL).