Thursday, September 12, 2019

#147 - Boston Almost-Eliminated Sox (76-70) at Toronto Spoiler Jays (57-89)

Smile, gentlemen... think of the golf tee time reservations you could soon make!

Thursday, September 12, 2019 | 7:07 pm ET
Rogers Centre | Toronto, Ontario

Jhoulys Chacin (opener, 3-10, 5.60, 1.52) vs. Clay Buchholz (1-4, 5.31, 1.32)


PREAMBLE:

After a scintillating pitching performance by the Blue Jays pitching staff in yesterday's 8-0 shellacking, the Jays look to sweep the Red Sox in today's finale of a three-game series.

Clay Buchholz faces his former team for the first time after spending ten years with the Red Sox, and hopefully he'll be inspired to take advantage of a demoralized squad.  He'll go up against Jhoulys Chacin, who will be making his second appearance as a Red Sox after being released by the Brewers.  Chacin is also making his first appearance against the Jays.

And, no, no relation between him and his cologne-spritzing namesake, Gustavo Chacin, though they're both from Venezuela.


NOTES:

Elvis is in the house!
What they failed to mention was that it just so happens to be Clayton Richard's birthday.  He probably got a cake that looked something like this:


18 days left in the season.  And it also just so happens that Elvis Luciano needs to be on the roster for 18 more days in order to satisfy the Rule 5 requirements.  Shenanigans?  Nope, no shenanigans or anything like that.  No sirree Bob.

I have a hunch that Rowdy seems to like the Red Sox for some reason:

It was picture day for the Jays:



LINEUPS:


This is your "break out the brooms" game threat.
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