AL East Lead?!?!

3-1, Yes I am aware that it is extremely early in the year, but still i can't

really express my excitement with the Toronto Blue Jays already. Back to back

games, they were down by one, on the road in the ninth inning, but the bats

came alive, and they were able to grasp a lead and with an iron fist hold on

to it, which is extremely surprising since after their first loss, a blown

save by Jason Fraser, their closer's e.r.a was over 50!

So, I guess that I haven't realised that my blog doesn't have to become

updated daily, but there is just so much to write about, especially with

hockey playoffs, and the MLB starting! Include the Raptors reecent, possibly

season ending slide, but you will have to bear with me!

The game was deadlocked at 3 apiece in the 6th, before the two run blast by

Miguel Tejada tied the game at 5, after T.O had gone ahead. I believe that it

was the 8th inning when, just before supper I watched the beginning of the

Jays offensive, with Vernon Wells leading off. I watched him work the count to

2-0, then foul off a pitch, and take another sitting nice at 3-1. But unlike

my previous article would have suggested, he swung at a breaking ball that

slide past the outer corner, and just like that, Wells was whiffed. After

Eating supper, and getting ready for work, I recieved a text stating the Jays

were down 5-6 in the top of the ninth, I sighed, and said aloud to the family

that the Jays were probably going to go down tonight.

After a few hours at work I snuck to the back to check my phone's inbox and

had recieved a score update stating the Jays had comeback to win 7-6 in

regulation innings!!! I was quite enthralled, yet I couldn't tell anyone

because I really shouldn't have checked my phone! Either way, my mood had

definitely swung for the rest of the night.

A little bit of small ball helped the Toronto club win a narrow one. In the

top of the ninth Travis Snider got bumped to third by a sacfrice, and Jose

Bautista knocked a sac fly to score the go ahead run, while Kevin Gregg came

in and snatched his first save of the year. The win also pushed the Jays into

a tie for the lead of the American League East Division!

Although comeback wins are great, it means that we were close to losing, and I

really hope the Jays can get the bats rolling a tad earlier in the game, for

to make the playoffs you must win games against your divisional teams, which

lucky for us are the power house Yankees and Redsocks. Since those teams are

much higher caliber than the Rangers or the Orioles, I dont think that we can

rely on a 9th inning surge to win those series, or games. None-the-less the

Jays are 3-1 and all worries about the major division contenders are at least

subtle while success is present!