Roy Halladay's Windup

Corina and I were at the Jays game on Tuesday night to see Roy Halladay pitch against the LA Angels of Anaheim. For some reason I knew Tuesday was going to be a special game. Roy threw a complete game, struck out a career high 14 batters and threw a career high 133 pitches. I can’t recall, but it’s possible this is the first time I had seen Roy pitch at the Dome. I typically see a game or 2 a season and it never seemed to fall on a day he was pitching. Tuesday’s game was awesome. Roy had bit of trouble in 7th giving up 4 runs on 3 singles, a walk, passed ball and 2 sacrifice flies. He then buckled down and struck out 5 in the last 2 innings to finish off the game. It was quite amazing.

As usual Roy is piling up the wins and is putting together another stellar season. And again it looks like he’s going to get jobbed out of a second Cy Young by another pitcher having a career year in Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals. Last year it was Cliff Lee, who came out of nowhere to grab the Cy Young award while pitching for a mediocre Cleveland Indians team. Roy has consistently been one of the top pitchers in the American league since 2002 and pitches in the toughest division in baseball. The Jays have a chance on Friday to rough up Zack Greinke, so hopefully they can slap him around a bit and make a dent in that ridiculous ERA he’s got so far this season.