Jesse the new Gus?

Remember a few years back when Gustavo Chacin won 13 games in his rookie year? He did it despite seeming to give up 1 run less than was scored for him. He would win games 8-7, 6-4, 11-9, and so on. He would never seem to pitch more than 6 innings though.

Jesse Litcsh pitched 5 and 2/3 innings last night, but to his credit, only gave up 2 runs. It seems that whenever Jesse is on the hill, the Jays bats seem to scrape together enough hits and runs to give the sophmore the win. He leads the Jays with a 5-1 record. To the rotation's credit though, all of the pitchers would have more wins if the bats would have give them more support than they have.

Matt Stairs went deep last night for the 5th time this year. As a team, the Jays have hit just over half of the home-runs that they had hit at this point last year. So far in '08 they have 25 HR's compared to 48 last year at this point.

It is a little scary to think that the pitchers have to be almost perfect for the Jays to win each game since the bats are almost comatose. It must be difficult on the pitchers to have to bear down on every pitch because they know that if they make a mistake, it could end up costing them and the team in the win column since the bats won't be able to get them back in the game.

Hopefully the Jays can get all over Boof Bonser (best name in baseball, but Coco Crisp is a close second) who isn't have a great year so far. Then again, if you look at the numbers only, Roy Halladay isn't having a great year either, but we know that he record is 2-5 because he has had terrible run support. You don't get to pitch 5 complete games when you don't have your best stuff. You pitch 3 complete game losses because you've pitched so good, the manager wants you to have a chance to get the win but the bats do squat.

Cheers.