2023 Blue Jays

[Pigskin]

Off to Dunedin Florida for some pre-season Blue Jays baseball. Liked what have seen so far out of this team. 

[Jesse]

Must be nice, have fun!

[Jockitch]

Have a good time watching. It can be really neat to see the players so close and especially the speed of a pitched ball.

My only time but memorable was in Sarasota, Fl., during a visit to my elder sister's place, that I saw a spring training game.
Got 3rd row tickets above Yankee's dugout. Jeter, Rodriguez were right in front of my beating heart .  Super thrill.

Earlier I saw Rod Carew (was a huge fan) with Angels play season game vs the Jays in their original outdoor stadium before Roger's centre.
Again with some business tickets was up only bout 4 rows behind 1st base.
Even got a pic of him catching the ball tossed to 1st basemen when running off field
Many other neat memories seeing Twins games over the years

[Pigskin]

Games: March 9,11,13,15,18th. Box 105 right next to the Jays dugout. 2019 last year we went for spring training, will nice to be back. Golf, on the off days.

Looks like the Blue Jays should have a pretty good team this year, again.

First regular season game, March 30th in St. Louis. Home opener April 11th.

[Pigskin]

Nice to start the season with a win. Springer with 5 hits, Bo, 4, and Chapman with 3. Vlad with 2 hits, 3 RBI's.

[The Zipp]

maybe one season I will really try to get into baseball right from the start...playoff baseball is awesome..maybe when i retire...

I am glad there are fans like Pigskin who love the sport.

[Pigskin]

Day off for the Blue Jays. Back at it tomorrow in St. Louis.

[Jesse]

What garbage scheduling, lol.

Day off already.

[Jockitch]

Today they have just 1 hit going into the 7th and down 3 - 0 to St. Louis

[Pigskin]

19 hits in the opener, 3 today. Blue Jays had runners on, just couldn't cash them in. With 10 walks, the Blue Jays should have had a better result. 4-1 St. Louis.

Really like some of the new rules. Time clock for the pitchers, keeps the game moving. I also like the new shift rule.

[Pigskin]

Chris Bassitt was terrible today. Chapman still swing a hot bat.

[Pigskin]

Solid game by the Blue Jays. Vlad and Varsho, both with 3 hits. Manoah 7IP/1Hit.

[Jesse]

That's the Manoah I expected to see to start the season.

Nice to have a pitcher in the arsenal who can make this kind of impact. Still need to get those bats warmed up.

[Jockitch]

Really enjoyed the success Kikuchi had and loved the drag bunt, single, by Varsho yesterday

[Pigskin]

Another good outing for the Blue Jays. Gausman looked good. Vlad another 3 hits, Bo 2, Varsho also with 2 hits.

[Pigskin]

Bassitt had a nice game. Bo with a hot bat and a big blast for the win.

[Jockitch]

Bassit certainly kept it close and hooray the come from behind occurred.

Definitely like the consistent pace due to the pitch clock
As such, the batters don?t stand around fidgeting with their gloves, i.e., as they must get back in the box

[Pigskin]

Bo, Vlad, Chapman, still with hot bats. Springer also with 2 hits. Nothing from the bottom half of the lineup. Pitching was a little iffy in the middle innings. Home opener on April 11th.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays looked terrible until the 6th inning. 6 in the 6th, 4 in the 7th.

Bo, Vlad, and Chapman still hot, Merrifield with a nice day at the plate.

Kiermaier 3H, 5 RBI's, Chapman also with 5 RBI's

Romano gives up 3 runs in the 9th. Sad.

Extra innings.

Crazy game. 12-11 Blue Jays.

[Pigskin]

Not Manoah's best outing. Jays batting are very hot right now. The catch by Kiermaier was a beauty. 

[Jockitch]

Never saw anything till late night recap and what a no doubter performance by the Jays
Kiermaier?s catch was absolutely jump out of your seat eye popping
Jays had 5 homers - WOWEE

Manoah however is not looking like he trained well

[Pigskin]

Nice come back win for the Jays tonight.

[Jesse]

My sportsnet app junked out on me, so I couldn't see it, but what a 9th!

Gotta keep winning to keep pace with the Rays, lol.

[Jockitch]

Rays are crazy successful at the moment but long season and hopefully Jays keep up and excell

[Pigskin]

Big test this weekend for the Jays. The undefeated Rays are a very good team. 

[Pigskin]

Excellent win for the Blue Jays. Very good pitching, well with the exception of Yimi. Springers with a big lead off HR. Bo with a 5 hit night.

[Pigskin]

Another big win for the Blue Jays. Our pitching was very good. Best game I have seen Kikuchi pitch.

[Pigskin]

Manoah gets spanked. Jays with only 6 hits. Jays didn't look good.

[Jesse]

Manoah gets spanked. Jays with only 6 hits. Jays didn't look good.

Eeek.

Kinda hoped Manoah would close out the series. He's had a couple rough outings already.

[Pigskin]

Jays give up another 9 runs tonight. Bats are dead cold.

[Pigskin]

Nice win for the Jays tonight. Bassitt was lights out. Vlad and Chapman each with a home run.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays relief pitching, terrible tonight.

[Pigskin]

Kikuchi pitches another gem yesterday. Brandon Belt's bat finally gets going. Vladi with another HR.

[Pigskin]

Manoah pitches 7 excellent innings in a 3-2 loss.

[Pigskin]

Gausman with a nice bounce back game. 7 very good innings. Vladi, Chapman, and Jansen, doing the damage with the bats today.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays with another great pitching performance. Spring and Jansen with hot bats. 

[Jockitch]

Wonderful pitching performance, again, by Kik., who is now 4-0.  Jays really getting a good bang for their pitching $$ now

[Pigskin]

Manoah was good tonight, but not great. A few to many walks, and an early HR. However our relief pitching was excellent. Nice win.

[Jockitch]

Took the Jays, while only getting 3 hits total, 10 innings to score   but HOORAY, they eke out a 1 - 0 victory
Gausman was terrific and the Jay relievers superb

[Pigskin]

Gausman with 13 K's. 19 in total.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays have lost 4 in a row. Pitching hasn't been good over those 4 games.

Let's make it 5 in a row.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays get some much need good pitching.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays with back to back wins. Berrios had a nice outing, and 6 players with 2 hits.

[Jockitch]

Early in season but Jays offence cannot afford to lag behind in these games.
Many top teams are getting both pitching and hitting and 5-5 runs won?t work.
Presently just at the edge of falling out of Wildcard spot

[Pigskin]

Kikuchi with a very good day. Now 5-0. Jays also with good hitting again today. SWEEP.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays with 2 very good wins over the Braves. Excellent in every phase of the game.

[Pigskin]

Bring out the brooms. Danny J. with a game winning two run single in the bottom of the 9th. with 2 out.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays get beat on back to back night. Yankees stealing signals on Monday night. Last night there starting pitcher had some kind of sticky substance on his hands. He got the boot.

[Pigskin]

Bassitt with a great game tonight. Jays left lots of players base tonight.

[Jockitch]

another tremendous performance by Bassitt .
The batting average is poor but how timely Jansen's hitting is so far, up to 21 RBI's, is wonderful 

[Pigskin]

The Jays got some pretty good pitching again last night, but other then Bo, bats were dead.

[Pigskin]

Jays on a bit of a slide. 1 and 5 in there last 6.

[Pigskin]

Jays haven't been playing well as of late. However the broke out in a big way 20-1 over the Rays. Jays with 27 hits. Every player that batted with at least 1 hit.

[Jockitch]

Watching sport channel this afternoon and caught a stat on Guerrero Jr. has only a single homerun in the last 84 plate appearances.
Suspect they have counted walks and HBP stats to come up with that or perhaps not   
My gosh that is a terrible sub power performance

[Pigskin]

Vlad with three hits tonight.

[Jesse]

Three singles.

[Pigskin]

Blue Jays with 3 in the 1st. inning and then some excellent pitching by Gausman.

[Pigskin]

Vlad with a double in the bottom of the 9th. to drive in the winning run.

[Pigskin]

Other then the 4 home runs today, a nice sweep by the Blue Jays.