[Sylvanfan]

Well after being swept against the A's the Jays have won 2 of 3 so far vs. the Angels. For the most part the Jays continue to get pretty good pitching as Litsch and Marcum both went 6 innings (6 and 1/3 for Litsch) and allow 2 earned runs. Halladay allowed 3 runs in the 8 inning complete game loss.

Right now the Jays have 4 of their 5 starters with an ERA under 4 and McGowans 4.19 is hardly terrible by American League standards. Jesse Litsch in particular continues to surprise as I thought the wheels would have fallen off for him by now. But he continues to go out and not give up many earned runs although he's had a lot of unearned ones count against him. In the bullpen the likes of Accardo, Janssen, Downs, and Wolf have all been pretty solid too. When you look at the numbers the Jays pitching has been better than they probably would have ever dreamed, especially since they're big money closer missed pretty much all of the season. If only the offence had been any good. Heck, if the rest of the offence had picked it up in August like Frank Thomas has the team might have made a charge to get back into it as they weren't that far out. But they didn't. Too bad their pitching staff has as good or better numbers than most of the teams who'll go to the playoffs.