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The streak stops at 7 games. Why? We got to within one game of .500. That’s usually when we start losing again. :(
Actually John Thomson pitched well, it’s just at the end he had enough of a meltdown, and the bullpen (Todd Van Poppel) was total crap that we lost. I thought Thomson was great again.
Omar Daal looked surprisingly great – I followed him when he was in Philadelphia, and never thought he was that great of a pitcher.

That was one serious stink coming from the Ballpark. Don’t want to write about it, it was so bad. One thing though – Carlos Delgado’s second home run was some serious crap – it was hit into what looked like Section 251. That’s a SERIOUS distance – was something like 455 feet, if I remember Josh right. Here’s a pic of how far away home plate is looking in from that section.

I thought John Thomson pitched great this game, except for his minor meltdown which allowed 3 runs to score. But other than that, he was wonderful. Unfortunately, CC Sabathia was even better, not allowing an earned run.in his 8 innings (as opposed to the 3 that Thomson allowed in his complete game 8 inning loss). That pretty much was the entire game – CC Sabathia shut us down pretty good – not much else you can say about this one.
Raffy watch: He sat out the game, and only came in as a pinch hitter as the final batter of the game. He needs two, and I’m going to the game on Thursday, so I’m hopeful he can do it then. :)

I didn’t get to see this game, and I could only barely pay attention, as I was at the office upgrading the web server’s copy of Linux. Was nice to see a win, although quite frankly, we should have a winning streak of 6 now, the two losses against the Blue Jays & Indians the last couple of days are still annoying.
We had a lot of pitchers in this game (7 in all), with starter Todd Van Poppel (!) going 4 innings, giving up three earned runs. Jay Powell looked pretty good (I got to hear his part of the game), and it was nice that our bullpen didn’t give up anything in the 5 innings they pitched.
Don’t have a whole lot more to say, but it looks like Raffy will get #500 at home, as the Raffy watch stays at 498. My gut feeling is that if he gets 499 tomorrow, he’ll come out of the game.

Ugh. That was highly annoying, especially given that we seemed to have it wrapped up. :(
Raffy watch stays at 498.

Overall, it wasn’t a bad game. We just couldn’t overcome the 6 spot the Blue Jays put up in the second inning. We didn’t allow anything else besides a single run in the third – the rest were zeroes. But we didn’t come back enough, even with the home runs by Juan (two of them again), Raffy, & Carl Everett. This was definitely a long ball hitting series, we had a zillion of them, and Juan had 5.
Not much else to say except the 6 runs that Colby Lewis gave up in the second were the game!