Land of the Leaf

Roy Halladay can stop the bleeding, but he needs some support.

Vernon Wells needs to hit the ball today, and I’m not talking about off of his ankles or shins.

I still believe in Alex Rios, just not as much as I used to.

Left handed Rich Hill coudn’t hold down a job a year ago, the Jays are loaded with right handed power hitters.  They should crush him.

Losing is unacceptable today, eight in a row is enough.

TOR: Halladay (8-1, 2.52 ERA)

BAL: Hill (1-0, 3.18 ERA)

Game Time 1:35 PM ET

After taking a double dose of DL-deliciousness, the Blue Jays were looking at a Kevin Millwood that has been fairly successful early-on this season.  Millwood was good, but Scott Richmond was better.  OK, I’ll have a sip of the Richmond Kool-Aid now.

That’s five straight series victories for our birds.  Of course, now we face a pair of injuries from polar opposites, at least performance-wise, left-handers.  Ricky Romero’s “sex-strain” will be fine, he’ll pitch in a couple of weeks.  B.J. Ryan will get his head checked and come back like a big sweaty bull.  If this scrappy season is to have a stretch where the Blue Jays can ‘afford’ injuries to key players, it’s right now.  The Jays, yet to have faced an AL East opponent are due to face a slew of mediocre clubs in the White Sox, Royals, Baltimore, Cleveland and the injury depleted pitching staff of Anaheim over the next 14 days.

If the bats keep maaashing, and that they did tonight, and Halladay and the bullpen keep inducing groundballs and strikeouts (a tall order, I know) then we’ll be fine.  Alex Rios finally slammed something prior to 2:45AM, and we all know it only takes one to get your mojo going.  I’m still believer in Rios.

These guys can play, and as coach Lou Brown once said: “There’s two or three potential All-Stars here”.