2023 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

The Yankees came to play spoiler and I’m guessing the rays aren’t going to fold over either.

I think even getting 2 wins in the next 4 is going to be a struggle.

[flamingred89]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

I think even getting 2 wins in the next 4 is going to be a struggle.

Yep. Jays are going to have to look to the OOT for best case scenarios here. Unreal how bad the last 2 games were. They're cooked.

[Hockey]

Maybe the Rays want Jays to win and get false confidence going into playoffs vs the Rays....

[bizaro86]

I assume this is all part of their plan to get the easier path via the wild card #3 spot. Surely they can't actually be this bad at hitting

[Roof-Daddy]

2 games up on the Mariners with 4 games to play.

Magic number is down to 3 now, despite losing the last two games.

Hopefully the Rangers continue to win vs. Seattle, then it doesn't matter what the Jays do.

[Enoch Root]

If the Jays go 2-2 in the last 4, then they are in, unless:

HOU goes 3-0 AND SEA goes 3-1

If they win today, their magic number is 2, with 6 events against HOU and 7 against SEA

[Enoch Root]

The bad news: the Jays can't score at home

The good news: most of the playoffs will be played on the road.

[bizaro86]

Really big pitching quality difference for the Yankees tonight vs last night. Hopefully they can take advantage and actually score some runs. Yankees bullpen will be quite rested for some reason though...

I still think it looks pretty good. They have 1 game in hand on Houston and the same remaining as Seattle. If they get the same number of wins as Houston OR 1 less than Seattle they're in. Seems like one of those should be possible.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The bad news: the Jays can't score at home

The good news: most of the playoffs will be played on the road.

Isn't it just the first 3 game series and then the rest are standard best of 7?

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Isn't it just the first 3 game series and then the rest are standard best of 7?

Well the division series is best of 5, but yes. I think the poster was meaning the Blue Jays will always be a lower seed so will have fewer home games than road games in any playoff series.

[KelVarnsen]

Yankees starter is 3-5 with a 6.57 ERA so I expect a perfect game.

Or at least a no-hitter.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I still prefer the last wild card spot. So a little bit of a drop isn't a bad thing.

[Inferno]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1707453645346746767

Any combination of Blue Jays wins and Seattle losses totaling 3 gets them in.

If they split and the Mariners sweep Texas and Houston beats Arizona twice they're out.

If the Astros win the division and everyone else finishes with the same amount of wins they're out.

If Texas wins the division and everyone else is tied they're in and Houston is out.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article...ners-is-three/

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Isn't it just the first 3 game series and then the rest are standard best of 7?

yes, but they're the road dog in every series

[Cowboy89]

The Jays playoff push is more resembling a controlled plane crash.

[Jiggy_12]

Tonight we face the softest starting pitcher out of our final 4 games (assuming the Rays stick to their scheduled rotation).

Better feast on this while we can. A loss tonight and an M's win, suddenly its clenching time.

[activeStick]

Aren't the Jays playoff chances 90%+ all around regardless? That's what I thought I read. No clenching if that's the case.

[Jiggy_12]

Originally Posted by activeStick

Aren't the Jays playoff chances 90%+ all around regardless? That's what I thought I read. No clenching if that's the case.

If we lose tonight and the M's win tonight, then we are just 1 game up and they have the tiebreaker.

that's definitely dicey with 3 games left.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

If we lose tonight and the M's win tonight, then we are just 1 game up and they have the tiebreaker.



that's definitely dicey with 3 games left.

Well...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1707453645346746767

Jays will make it.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

If we lose tonight and the M's win tonight, then we are just 1 game up and they have the tiebreaker.

that's definitely dicey with 3 games left.

magic number is 3 with SEA (with 7 games remaining)

magic number is 3 with HOU (with 6 games remaining)