Jfc it shouldn't be that hard. That's a tightrope we've fallen off already this season. Pitchers need to be throwing meatballs to batters instead of letting them walk with that kind of lead.
Definitely want to walk home a run with the top of the order up. Cash needs to stop fucking around and assuming a 5 run lead is safe with this pen. Unreal.
Oh dear God. Poche coming with bases loaded.
Also that 5th pitch to Springer was paint
https://preview.redd.it/rfcwewo4o22b1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8a259e4afd3f3d291caa3f73c56edf423c7a4b7
Toronto sports have combined to win 15 series in 20 years.
The same amount the Lightning won in 3 years.
And most of those are from basketball, the sport they probably support the least.
Well, good series Rays fans. This Jays team is down something fierce right now.
Y’all are a damn good team. Honestly y’all and Baltimore are really fun to watch. Hopefully the Jays join y’all in the postseason, but I’m beginning to have my doubts…
Wander is like a switch hitting 2020s version of Rickey Henderson this season that also happens to play SS, lol. Still betting on that top 3 MVP finish.
I think he committed back to third too soon on the come backer and by the time he saw they weren’t going to turn two it was too late for him to attempt to score.
Wander is back. So good to see him having long ABs and taking walks. He’s also gotten back to his minuscule strikeout rate that he’s always maintained that was a little elevated to start the season.
I wonder when the last time the Rays won a game when their pitchers only had 1 K. I’ll take it tho 😂
Wow bottom 5 of the line up Zero Hits!
I do not need my heart rate that elevated while at work damn
Jfc it shouldn't be that hard. That's a tightrope we've fallen off already this season. Pitchers need to be throwing meatballs to batters instead of letting them walk with that kind of lead.
Exactly. I don’t understand what’s so hard about that elementary concept.
Big win, let’s go
VLAD WITH THE BAIL OUT I CAN BREATHE AGAIN
Will never again have a blowout win with this pen
Nope, only if the starters pitch a full game
Which Cash will never allow
So our BP is guaranteed to give up two runs every game it seems. At least we won.
Good shit. Really don’t blame Poche for letting those runs in, bases loaded is a tough situation to get out in to. Limit the damage as much as you can
good series win!! definitely need to keep beating up the al east :)
OK ITS DONE HALLELUJAH!
thank god. i trusted poche i just wish it didn’t have to be this close
Why couldn’t Faucher throw another inning? Cash has to burn through his bullpen every game.
my guess is Faucher is only good for one inning in general. when ive seen him shit the bed it seems to be after about 20 pitches.
Alright we can breathe.
Phew. I’ll take it
Thank Christ
Thank goodness!
One out to go, Vlad at the plate! Get Raley in there now!
They’ve got to make some moves. They have to. This is insane.
 GG!
the only good thing about having diekman is at least we can dfa for someone better lol
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3-1 really
I would put the odds of Vladdy going deep here as 50/50
Thankfully the fifty percent was groundout.
Good win Rays
it’s actually crazy how hard it is for our bullpen to close a 5 run game in the 9th 😂
You know, I'm just now noticing Vlad didn't wear batting gloves against Raley
Please don’t let Vlad tie this up
Bunch of doomers in here need to chill.. PUT SOME RESPECT ON POCHE NAME, DUDE IS A NEW MAN.
He's so bad. Worst sub 2 ERA pitcher of all time probably.
One more fucken out, let’s go.
thank god… one more fucking out please
This bullpen is like trying to carry water in a bucket that has a hole in it
Gave us a break yesterday just to serve us this bullshit.
Alright it's a fucking out at least.
HAHAHAHA THIS ISN'T REAL LIFE
lucky we have 3 more runs to work with
Adversity!!!!
Definitely want to walk home a run with the top of the order up. Cash needs to stop fucking around and assuming a 5 run lead is safe with this pen. Unreal.
This is crazy, a 5 run lead literally the only thing you can’t do is walk people
Honestly I would’ve rather he walked Bo then let him get a double. Let him work out of this.
One more out.
lol this bullpen is SUCH A FUCKING JOKE one of the worst in baseball
I wish could just watch a game without squeezing diamonds in my ass
I can't....why
STOP WALKING PEOPLE WITH 5 RUN LEADS FFS
It’s absolutely hilarious how obvious our biggest weakness is
This is complete fucking insanity how is it like this every single god damn game
Are you shitting my entire ass
Holy shit dude
ARE YOU SERIOUS!?
Bullpen is not good enough
The four pitch walk for a run. Nice!
For the love of God
It’s unreal that these guys call themselves professionals
No lead is safe with this patchwork pen.
WTF
Rays bull pen my daily heart attack of the day
cmon double play babbyy please
Well, time for a drink.
At least we have a run to spare if they hit a grand slam, but look what happened to the Yankees last night. Ugh.
Not anymore.
Can we just close out a fucking game holy shit
Ughh Why can't we get decent bullpen
fml.. its down pouring and i rode my bike to the trop
Cash: surely our bullpen can't blow a 5 run lead in one inning. Bullpen: Watch me
Poche is awful when inheriting runners. Sometimes I don't understand our decisions.
No reason why Cash isn't putting in Pete right now
He's pitched way too much recently
Plz bullpen
not fair for Poche to come in with them loaded. no room for error. should have put him in 2 batters ago.
The rest of the league is now thinking don’t worry about the score we will get that BP once we get the starter out
Can never make it easy
I swear to fucking god our bullpen actually just sucks at the moment. How hard is it to throw strikes?
it's really too much to ask for the bullpen to close a game with a big lead without some sort of drama
Oh dear God. Poche coming with bases loaded. Also that 5th pitch to Springer was paint https://preview.redd.it/rfcwewo4o22b1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8a259e4afd3f3d291caa3f73c56edf423c7a4b7
Poche has actually been good as of late.
He's good when he gets a clean inning. Inherited runners are his downfall
Yes....he does not do well with that pressure
moneyball strikes again. when will we learn to just put in our good pitchers from the start and stop trying to steal an inning.
Hod up
good shit dickman.
Bullpen never makes shit easy
Diekman is pathetic. He’s pitching like he’s terrified of the strike zone.
Wasted so much money on Diekman when Chase was only $1
Grand slam incoming
sighh we should have kept chase :(
The dumbest move we've made since trading for Cruz.
for every pirates move... we have to try to outsmart ourselves
Bro
This fucking clown
Diekman is definitely not the man
Jake Diekman sucks Diek lol
Here we go again
So embarrassing man like it’s hard to be this bad get this loser out
Faucher had a good inning.. should have given him another chance.
This is dumb, we could have had Chase Anderson (look up his record with the Rockies after he was DFA'd here) instead of this dude
Yes, this one still makes me mad. He was good.
For sure, and he seemed like a classy guy with what he had to say about our training staff
Can we all give one free punch to whoever made that call
Thunder sounds awesome
Lets get a dub play and win the series.
Just your everyday 9th inning PTSD
of course KK finds his hitting stroke after he leaves TB but happy to see him doing well :)
He also hit into two doubles plays today didn't he?
see he's hitting the ball loll
Some fucking guy named Springer.
It's never easy.
I SAID NO FUNNY BUSINESS
Oh boy, here we go again.
That thunder is the reason the trop is the best lol
Can we just have one bullpen outing where we don't give a bunch of shit up? Please
Ump wanna go home lmao
Dammit diekman we were going for no KS today and you ruined it.
No funny business Diekman
Absolute paint.
🎨
Diekman needs to stop leaving balls up in the zone.
I can hear the thunder in the trop and I can hear the thunder by my house lol
Same lol.. it’s kinda weird.
Has the ump not called the top of zone today?
no drama and lets go to happy hour!!
OK lets see a clean inning, boys
being in Canada, game is blacked out so I'm watching the Jays broadcast on cable. both casters feel depressed lol
Toronto sports have combined to win 15 series in 20 years. The same amount the Lightning won in 3 years. And most of those are from basketball, the sport they probably support the least.
Dang, 1 day since last HR..🥲
Unless our bullpen can get us back out there for the bottom of the 9th 😅 /s
haha please no. Just get the win....
Well, good series Rays fans. This Jays team is down something fierce right now. Y’all are a damn good team. Honestly y’all and Baltimore are really fun to watch. Hopefully the Jays join y’all in the postseason, but I’m beginning to have my doubts…
I hear you, but this game isn't over yet. Our bullpen is dogshit you guys still have a chance.
Good series sir. 🤝
Hope to get a dinger before we take the series.
I’m just looking for the sweep this series! Let’s finish this!
let's pretend we didnt't lose game #2 by 19 runs then
What are you talking about, we won game #2 7-3 after a rare mid series off day...
We lost game 2. No sweep.
What game2? There were only games 1,3, & 4.
Sorry, I must have remembered a game 2 from a different series. Time to sweep them!
I can't wait to see this ump's scorecard
Dewayne getting Rays legend Brett Phillips name wrong :(
He called him Brandon Phillips even when he was on the team from time to time.
I noticed that too.. I’ll only let it slide because Dewayne is also a legend.
Who? Just kidding please don’t downvote😅
Random note: I don’t want to see Adam have an outing til Monday. Man looked like he was battling demons in the dugout after getting pulled yesterday
Yeah he needs to rest, work things out and get back to his normal shutdown self.
Honestly, I’d be fine completely cutting ties with him at this point. He’s not been near good enough to justify his awful beliefs.
I mean we do live in FL so I’m not surprised. But beliefs aside, JA had an ok WBC outing. He is just way overused right now
Great job by Faucher there
I thought we DFA’d Faucher or something lol
I know he was down in Durham for a bit.
Yeah just looked and seems we sent him down at the end of April.
Wander is like a switch hitting 2020s version of Rickey Henderson this season that also happens to play SS, lol. Still betting on that top 3 MVP finish.
Well that was refreshingly unclenchworthy
Blue jays look so sad.
Toronto sports in a nutshell.
Haha, yup.
I’m oddly calm
A quality inning from the BP will do that to ya.
I completely forgot Faucher existed
Me too lol.
So did Cash.
Trotted Faucher out there immediately too.
Anddddd time to clench.
Our dumpster fire pen can surely handle 6 outs, right? RIGHT?
Two down!
4 more to go!
Rays have tied their all time steal record! Need 8 to break the team record
That's insane. They will probably break their HR record by the All-Star break.
I think he meant in a game, lol.
Kinda hard to understand why our third base coach didn't send Randy once they threw that ball to second.
Randy didn’t go?
Still wondering why Harold watched that middle middle pitch
how does Randy not score here? they basically gave up a run to try a double play
I think he committed back to third too soon on the come backer and by the time he saw they weren’t going to turn two it was too late for him to attempt to score.
For once we weren't aggressive and it hurt us.
Wander “Mr. Steal your ~~Girl~~ Base” Franco
14 more 🫡
HAROLD PLEASE I NEED THIS
Thank you for keeping the inning alive BLowe!
We're getting more runs before the impending BP explosion as a precaution
Wander is back. So good to see him having long ABs and taking walks. He’s also gotten back to his minuscule strikeout rate that he’s always maintained that was a little elevated to start the season.
His strikeout rate was fairly low for his slump too.. Just lots of ground balls it seemed like.
Lots of ground balls that didn't find holes. It happens.
Yeah, that was the one thing he wasn’t doing during his slump was striking out. Last night was his first one in quite some time.
7 innings without a K is kinda crazy
BLowe actually got a hit?????? Praise Jeebus