Vexed

I'm not going to hate on Brian Tallet. But I had a major issue with how he and the rest of that bullpen was used last night. Tallet is fresh off the DL, hasn't pitched in the majors in months and has been seen by the Jays since last year. Maybe try him out in a lower leverage situation, see what Tallet actually had. And some are saying "He was all there was." Well, not quite, as Francisco and Lewis were still in the pen. And maybe don't burn through all your more reliable bullpen pitchers earlier in the game. It just vexed me as it was a very winnable game. I mean, Kevin Gregg had put all that effort into blowing the game for the Orioles and the Jays just didn't show him any appreciation.

“It was a pretty crappy result, huh,” Tallet said. “That’s what happens when you don’t throw strikes early when you get in there. Let those guys get on base and anything can happen and that’s what happened. It was just stupid. I’ve been playing this game for how long? It’s inexcusable. The team battled their asses off, man. For me to go out there and not get it done is really disappointing.”

Yeah, strikes are sort of important.

This game fatigued me. And I'm sure people are going to tell me that Tallet was the only option (as they did on Twitter last night), but I'm fatigued.

Brett Lawrie doesn't fatigue me. Because he continues to be awesome. In the third inning, with two on, Lawrie launched a 2-2 Jeremy Guthrie pitch into the seats for his 6th homer of his 24 game career. Full Tilt.

I tweeted last night that the Yankees and Red Sox couldn't decide which team was more boring, so they had a brawl. Really it had to do with Francisco Cervelli hitting a homer off Red Sox pitcher John Lackey and clapping his hands once, supposedly in Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia's face. Well, to be fair, Salty was standing about an inch from the plate.

So Lackey took offence and plunked Cervelli in the back next time he was up. Benches cleared and the game slowed down to an even more tortoise like pace.

"Every time I get a base hit or a double, I clap. That's me, that's my game, and I don't try to do anything bad to another player," Cervelli said. "That's Cervelli."

Ok, I was with you until you said, "That's Cervelli." That was your third career homer. Don't refer to yourself in the third person.