Washed Out

The Twins’ home game against the Barrie Baycats was rained out tonight – it was called over an hour before first pitch, so I’m going to guess it was really bad at the ballpark. They’re off until they host Hamilton at 2 on Saturday, and I fall off the beat until the first weekend in June when Oshawa comes to Meadowvale. There are four games in between then, so I’ll likely get in touch with coach Calcagni by email or phone and do pieces on those games, as well as some supplementary blog material.

They continue to sit at .500, at 2-2. By rights, they should be 3-1 and it wouldn’t be altogether unfair if they were 4-0. But such is the way of baseball – it should even out over the course of the season, and at least know that they’re no Stratford Nationals.

The pieces I’ve done so far are up on the Twins’ site – www.mississaugatwins.ca – and I’m going to write up a short newswire-type thing on the rain-out, and do a feature on the home opener hoopla/the general arrival of the Twins to the ICBL.

This Blue Jays’ losing streak is painful – unless they can beat the Red Sox Friday, it’ll hit double digits. It was never that bad under John Gibbons. With them now sitting only four games over .500, we can say with certainty that this losing streak has hurt them dearly. It will absolutely be one of the first things to point at if they miss the playoffs by anywhere from one to three or four games.

That said, it’s yet to mortally wound them, and there’s a good chance they’ll still play above-.500 ball for the rest of the season – after all, they always have. It’s just unfathomable to imagine a team that showed it can play as well as they did prior to this losing streak flopping for the next four months, and it probably won’t happen.

Because the Yankees and Red Sox have scuffled a bit – the Red Sox more so – of late, they’re only a game and a half out, and with a ton of games left against the Yankees and Red Sox they firmly control their own destiny.

I can probably say a lot more about a few situations – the bullpen and Wells/Rios, notably – but I’m going to hold off until the week, when the Twins beat dies down a bit and all I have to report on are boxscores.