Comeback Victory for Toronto Blue Jays in their Last Regular Season Home Game

Teena and I enjoy going to Toronto Blue Jays games, especially the first game, the Canada Day game and the last home game of the year.

Today was the last regular season home game and the Jays came in looking to keep or extend their lead over the Yankees for first place in the eastern division. They were taking on the Tampa Bay Rays.

It was a beautiful day for a game.

Here we are with our rally towels. The first twenty thousand fans received Blue Jay hoodies. The people in front of us arrived at 10:05am and only 3 of the 4 of them got hoodies. They heard some people had lined up as early as 6:30am!

The music each player has selected for themselves to be played as they walk up to the plate.

First pitch.

Buehrle in action later on in the game. The defense behind him was a little shaky in the early going and the Jays found themselves down 4-1 after 4 innings. Buehrle pitched 6 full innings before being pulled.

Weird cloud formations.

We just missed this double play.

The cover on my camera hasn't been closing properly. Partway through the game, the front piece game off and pieces went flying. Camera still worked great, though.

Every Sunday since 2012, the Toronto Blue Jays have done a Sunday salute, honouring a member of our Canadian Armed Forces. Today it was Sergeant Steve Pugh.

The place was packed. 47.287 fans were in attendance, all with rally towels.

Down 4-1 in the sixth, Justin Smoak fouls one off with a man on base.

He didn't miss on the next pitch, a two run home run!

This pot would have been sweet to win. We bought $10 worth but weren't close.

The largest home attendance sine 1995.

These fans love our big three, Donaldson, Bautista and Encarnacion.

Brett Cecil came in for the ninth inning and shut down the Rays.

In the bottom of the ninth, the man who should be this years MVP drills a home run to left field for a walk-off victory. The place went nuts!

What a fun afternoon! Seeing a win is much more fun than a loss and to be there for a game winning homerun to complete a  late game comeback, well ...

I doubt that we'll be able to get playoff tickets but we'll be watching all of them for sure. What a hell of a year! I feel we'll be watching the Jays once again, 22 years later in the World Series!

Oktoberfest at the Gladstone Hotel

Tonight Teena and I were at the Oktoberfest celebration at the Gladstone Hotel.

These guys were great with their German tunes all night.

The beer was great.

Teena and the band.. They seemed to like us.

It was a fun night. Great deal, well be back again next year.

Blue Jays Rock Yankees 4-0, Magic Number now Just 8

Tonight 37 of us from work were at the Toronto Blue Jays - Yankees ball game. The Jays came into the game with a two and a half game lead over the Yankees for first place in the East Division. A win would put them that much closer to a play-off berth. Marcus Stroman, who was supposed to be out with an injury for the entire season, was making his third start after having won his first two.

Before hand, about twenty of us hit the 3 Brewers on Adelaide for some beer and food.

Marcus Stroman in action. Look at the bend in his arm!

The whole gang!

 

 

The Rogers Centre was packed.

 

 

Bautista fouls one off. He went hit less for the night.

Swing and a miss.

The Jays chase Ivan Nova from the game after he walked Jays catcher Russell Martin. Martin would come around to score in the inning.

Alex Rodriguez was caught taking performance enhancing drugs and was suspended for a year. Nobody knows for sure how many seasons he did this so Blue Jay fans let A-Rod know every time he comes to bat that any record he sets will have an asterisk by it.

Ha! I love it!

Russell Martin, who until the 7th inning had scored the game's only run, blasted a three run homer to left field giving the Jays a late 4-0 lead. In the ninth inning, Roberto Osuna came in to shut down the Yankees in the ninth, giving the Jays a 4-0 shutout victory and a three and a half game lead over the second place Yankees.

The Jays magic number is now 8. Any combination of Jays wins and Yankee loses from here to the end of the season, clinches first place for the Toronto Blue Jays for the first time since 1993.

What a year!

The stats.

My September 2015 Beer of the Month Delivery

Teena worked from home today and when I arrived home from work, I was surprised to find that this month's Beer of the Month package had been delivered. If she was not at home, I would have had to wait and pick it up from the post office. As usual, a dozen beer await tasting. Two breweries each sent two styles of beers each.

Taps Brewing Company sent three bottles of Red Cream Ale and a very interesting three bottles of Rye Knot Pale Ale. Brasserie des Quatre Lunes from Oakville sent three bottles of Pumpkin Saison, I love saisons and have never had a pumpkin one, and three bottles of Begium Brun.

And in the Did You Know section is the states that the Czech Republic has the largest per capita beer consumption in the world. At a whopping 132 litres annually per capita, they consume at a level that is almost double the yearly level of Canada, which stands at a mere 68 litres per capita.

Interesting.

Looking forward to getting a chill on these and giving them a try.