2025 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[Cowboy89]

Lots of sad Guards fans leaving progressive today. Not as many Jays fans this year, likely due to Canadians doing their part and not visiting the US.

Good series win. Good to see Mad Max pitch and not hurt himself, great 8 inning shutout ball from Gausman, nice 6 RBI from Springer Dinger, Captain Kirk carries forward his contact hitting skills. All and all a decent 3 days in Cleveland!

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

The first game of the series was the hottest. 96 degrees (35C) and 99% humidity. Today is 29C with 99% humidity

Just wow. I've been mulling a "Fly to Pittsburg, Drive to Cleveland, then to Detroit and home from there" trip next summer to get 3 new stadiums, and the drives in between are all pretty short. But that's next level unpleasant weather and doesn't work for me. Maybe I can make it work in September...

[KelVarnsen]

Unless you already live in the USA, I wouldn't go.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Just wow. I've been mulling a "Fly to Pittsburg, Drive to Cleveland, then to Detroit and home from there" trip next summer to get 3 new stadiums, and the drives in between are all pretty short. But that's next level unpleasant weather and doesn't work for me. Maybe I can make it work in September...

I have done all three of those stadiums this season already. The key is to not be in the sun and even when it’s hot it’s still ok. https://www.shadedseats.com/

When I was in Pittsburgh it was Easter weekend in late April and it was 70s and very nice (that was unseasonably warm for that time) and also that ballpark is easily my favorite. Progressive field faces north so most seats are in the shade for most night games (next year it will have completed their last stage of renovations). Comerica park is decent too and as long as you avoid late June / July the weather should be very comfortable for a game (Also downtown Detroit is highly underrated, a lot of gentrification has occurred over the last decade and now there are nice restaurants/bars/ hotels etc near the sports stadiums and in Corktown).

I would recommend doing the opposite route if coming from Alberta. WestJet has a seasonal direct daily flight from YYC to DTW (Detroit) from May through October. It’s 2 hours drive to Cleveland from Detroit and then Pittsburgh’s another 1.5 hour drive from Cleveland. All very doable car trips.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by bluejays

I always wonder about baseball culture and beaning. Sometimes pitches get away, and it happens by accident. I've often wondered why teams escalate by retaliatory beaning even when it's clearly a mistake. I now realize it's a message that "if your guy doesn't have control, they should be penalized for playing in the first place". Kinda sucks that some gets the butt end for a mistake, but I guess that's part of the unwritten rules.

It was a little on purpose pitching too inside to Guerrero. Hit twice in the series when on one else was, that's targetting inside. And once he left the game the Jays had to get their revenge. Not for hitting Guerrero on purpose so much as to stop teams pitching too inside on him.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I have done all three of those stadiums this season already. The key is to not be in the sun and even when it’s hot it’s still ok. https://www.shadedseats.com/

When I was in Pittsburgh it was Easter weekend in late April and it was 70s and very nice (that was unseasonably warm for that time) and also that ballpark is easily my favorite. Progressive field faces north so most seats are in the shade for most night games (next year it will have completed their last stage of renovations). Comerica park is decent too and as long as you avoid late June / July the weather should be very comfortable for a game (Also downtown Detroit is highly underrated, a lot of gentrification has occurred over the last decade and now there are nice restaurants/bars/ hotels etc near the sports stadiums and in Corktown).

I would recommend doing the opposite route if coming from Alberta. WestJet has a seasonal direct daily flight from YYC to DTW (Detroit) from May through October. It’s 2 hours drive to Cleveland from Detroit and then Pittsburgh’s another 1.5 hour drive from Cleveland. All very doable car trips.

Helpful, thanks! My plan would definitely be the Westjet direct from DTW one way. I usually like to do the "worse" travel at the beginning of the trip, and so I'd probably fly to Pittsburg first (which requires a connection) and then rent a car one-way to Detroit and do all 3 stadiums, but depending on baseball schedules and my timing I might do it in reverse.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It was a little on purpose pitching too inside to Guerrero. Hit twice in the series when on one else was, that's targetting inside. And once he left the game the Jays had to get their revenge. Not for hitting Guerrero on purpose so much as to stop teams pitching too inside on him.

Yeah, I think that after their multi-hundred-million dollar guy gets beaned on far inside pitches two games in a row you need to respond. I get teams want to pitch Guerrero high/inside, but it can't be high/inside and in the batters box on a regular basis either.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It was a little on purpose pitching too inside to Guerrero. Hit twice in the series when on one else was, that's targetting inside. And once he left the game the Jays had to get their revenge. Not for hitting Guerrero on purpose so much as to stop teams pitching too inside on him.

Exactly, they hit Vladdy twice in the series. After he left the game, at minimum they needed to immediately drill Ramirez and only Ramirez as he’s really the only offensive threat on Cleveland. It’s not just a message to Cleveland (they don’t play again in regular season this year), but also for other teams that it’s not open season on pitching Vladdy aggressively inside. Cleveland Manager Vogt understood why Ramirez needed to be hit by acknowledging that they ‘should have hit him on the hip’ afterwards.

For those that call this ‘macho culture’ or some element of that, that’s not true, it’s about not disadvantaging your own players by highlighting to other teams that there are consequences for aggressively throwing inside. It’s not much dissimilar to hockey. Recall Johnny Gaudreau used to get slashed on his wrists basically whenever the ref wasn’t looking. Sure you could take the position that only the refs should manage the game to avoid being too ‘macho’ or you could help him out by putting another deterrent on the other team from doing it.

[KelVarnsen]

No Vladdy in the lineup today
https://www.tsn.ca/mlb/vladimir-guer...itch-1.2328104

[puffnstuff]

Turns out he is in the lineup, just hit a single

[puffnstuff]

And stole second, then scored on a single by Springer.

[ben voyonsdonc]

Some ugly bunt attempts from Clase.

[flamingred89]

That was gross by Clase.

[KelVarnsen]

wtf was that

[ben voyonsdonc]

Berrios is the glue that holds this team together.

[flamingred89]

This is great

[flamingred89]

Once again the Jays suck at hitting position players. Easy trade off with how well they've been hitting real pitchers. But still. I wanna see some bombs

[KelVarnsen]

Haha #### you Boston

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Just wow. I've been mulling a "Fly to Pittsburg, Drive to Cleveland, then to Detroit and home from there" trip next summer to get 3 new stadiums, and the drives in between are all pretty short. But that's next level unpleasant weather and doesn't work for me. Maybe I can make it work in September...

Please don't support that enemy of country in any way.

[flamingred89]

Well that inning went unexpectedly sideways. Stupid flukey pesky pole homerun.