Blue Jay ace Roy Halladay took the mound as a mid-range favorite (-147). Halladay pitched admirably and had the Jays in position to end an eight-game losing streak. He was relieved with a seemingly comfortable 8-3 lead in the eighth.<\/p>\n
The fact that the Orioles were 0-24 when trailing after seven innings made what ensued all the more painful.<\/p>\n
It took Toronto reliever Jesse Carlson all of one out to give up the five-run lead. But it could have been worse. The Blue Jays threw out Adam Jones, the potential go-ahead run, at the plate to keep the game tied at eight.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless ninth inning, Toronto’s Aaron Hill breathed some life back into the Blue Jays with a two-run homer in the 10th.\u00a0 It was the first home run for the Jays in 78 innings and gave them their first double-digit scoring output since May 6.<\/p>\n
But Toronto’s bullpen was determined to screw this one up. Brian Wolfe surrendered an RBI single to Luke Scott and then served up a three-run homer to Nolan Reimold, sending the Jays to their ninth straight loss. Ouch.<\/p>\n The morale of the story is: With the number of complete games dwindling on a yearly basis, the importance of handicapping the bullpen has increased significantly.<\/p>\n Here is quick look at the top 5 and bottom 5 bullpens in baseball heading into June. <\/strong><\/p>\n You can find more bullpen stats right here.<\/p>\n Top 5 Bullpens<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Boston: 2.90 ERA; .236 BA.<\/p>\n 2. N.Y. Mets: 2.95 ERA; .242 BA.<\/p>\n 3. Milwaukee: 3.22 ERA; .210 BA.<\/p>\n 4. St. Louis: 3.47; .213 BA<\/p>\n 5. Cincinnati: 3.53 ERA; .239 BA.<\/p>\n Bottom 5 Bullpens<\/strong><\/p>\n 30. L.A. Angels: 5.86 ERA; .297 BA.<\/p>\n 29. Washington: 5.85 ERA; .278 BA.<\/p>\n 28. Colorado: 5.38 ERA; .304 BA.<\/p>\n 27. N.Y. Yankees: 5.12 ERA; .255 BA.<\/p>\n 26. Baltimore: 5.04; .274 BA.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n Here is quick look at the top 5 and bottom 5 bullpens in baseball heading into June…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[14024,2390,9155,9147,9144,9146,9145,9159,14025,14023],"class_list":["post-10814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-baseball-gambling-tips","tag-ben-burns","tag-ben-burns-free-picks","tag-ben-burns-handicapping","tag-ben-burns-picks","tag-ben-burns-predictions","tag-ben-burns-sports-picks","tag-burns-bad-beats","tag-mlb-betting-analysis","tag-mlb-bettors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10816,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814\/revisions\/10816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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