![]() I can’t wait to hear the rest of this album (and hopefully some songs with Sarah Heyward on lead vocals). Lower Plenty have a knack for moving apart while staying in unison, the resulting effort creating a magical surrealist folk sound, one that’s lively and literate. No Poets, out in October, opens with the layered acoustic and syrupy melodies of “Back To The Foldout,” a song that finds the band in fine form, closely harmonizing and jangling in equal measure. When together however, Lower Plenty have an instantly engaging spark, mixing their brand of earnest folk, power-pop, and slacker punk to create something accessible but intricately crafted. They’ve kept busy with projects like Terry, Sleeper & Snake, Total Control, UV Race, Deaf Wish, Hot Tubs Time Machine, and somehow that’s still only scratching the surface. It’s been seven years since the Melbourne based quartet released the exceptional Sister Sister, but the members haven’t exactly been twiddling their thumbs. 465 (21-for-46).I was not expecting the return of Lower Plenty, but I sure am grateful for it. In the ensuing four wins, the new top of the order – Melky Cabrera, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion – have batted. It was 10-1 after three innings and the crowd of nearly 33,000 was delighted.Īfter Rajai Davis went on the disabled list on Saturday, Gibbons threw up his hands, quit rummaging for a leadoff hitter and simply moved his top seven hitters up a notch in the batting order. Arencibia hit a two-run shot in the three-run second. Adam Lind hit a two-run homer in a bat-around, five-run first inning. Several other plays could be categorized as something akin to ineptitude.Īnd the suddenly opportunistic Toronto hitters made them pay. Of the eight runs they scored against starter Ryan Vogelsong in two innings, only three were earned. Then Ortiz, who turns 40 next week, confounded the critics with a solid effort in which he allowed a run on six hits.įor the second straight night, the Giants needed a playbook titled Defence for Dummies, and the Blue Jays capitalized, which is something they could not accomplish during the dog days of April. The Jays’ hitters were pull-happy earlier and have now begun to stay on pitches on the outside part of the plate, using the whole field, Gibbons said. “And let’s face it, we’ve got to have some pretty good streaks that we can throw in there too,” he added. The team’s mantra is to ignore the deficit in the standings and play to “win today,” Gibbons said before the game. But they have awakened, at least momentarily, from an early-season slumber during which they failed to hit or pitch effectively with any consistency. They are the only team with a losing record in the American League East. The awakening At the quarter-pole of the season, the Jays are 17-24. When you have confidence, you can throw the pitch in any count, and that’s what we do right now.” “The key right now is I have a lot of confidence in all my pitches – my changeup, my slider, my two-seamer and my four-seamer. ![]() When I go to the minor leagues, I go and throw five innings and I know I have the opportunity of coming back here.” The demotion did not damage his self-assurance, he said. Ortiz appeared in one game in April, then returned to Buffalo and resumed his role as the Bisons’ best starter. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Now he’s getting it and he’s taking advantage of it.” He’s at that stage of his career where he probably wasn’t going to get that opportunity. “He came up earlier in the year, he was kind of a long guy. “He probably never envisioned he was going to be in this situation where he would make some starts in the big leagues again,” manager John Gibbons said. In his two starts, against the Red Sox and Giants, Ortiz has worked 12 innings and allowed two runs. Blue Jays’ Santos to undergo elbow surgery Morrow’s start postponed again.Blue Jays on a roll with third-straight win, a rout of Giants.And they are scoring runs at a furious pace – 36 over the winning streak. They have won four in a row for the first time this season. Instead, he has put together two solid outings, the latest a slick seven-inning session in the Jays’ 11-3 win over the San Francisco Giants. Injuries elevated him from Triple-A Buffalo and dropped him unexpectedly into the Blue Jays’ rotation last week, where the odds suggested he might last one start. This is the same Ramon Diogenes Ortiz who won 44 games for the Anaheim Angels between 20, then fashioned a 5.27 ERA in the years thereafter and bounced between the minors and mop-up jobs in the majors.
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