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At best, a walkout song can rally the crowd and charge up a batter with enough hype to hit a homer. At worst, spectators will start looking around, wondering why there’s a Limp Bizkit song on.
Today in Blue Jays History: Ricky Romero takes no-hitter into the 8th
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Eleven Years Ago Today
Ricky Romero took a no-hitter into the 8th inning.
Unfortunately, he gave up a hit in the 8th, a home run. A two-run home run, but we still won.
Didn’t we have the debate about whether Ricky Romero was any good? I think he answered that one. He went 8 innings, allowed one hit, 12 K, 10 ground outs with 2 fly outs. Unfortunately, the one hit was an Alex Rios homer, but such is life. Kevin Gregg pitched the 9th to get the save. He struck out 2 in his perfect inning. He is pitching a lot better than he did last year. I’m not sure what the change is, but I like it.
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Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #16 John Olerud
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John Garrett Olerud | 1B | 1989-1996
John Olerud was born August 5, 1968, in Seattle, Washington. His father, also named John, played catcher for Washington State University and played professional ball, reaching Triple-A ball. The Blue Jays drafted John Jr. in the 3rd round of the 1989 amateur draft out of Washington State University, where he both pitched and played in the field. He was 26-4 as a pitcher in WSU. He is one of just a handful of players that started his professional career in the majors and never played in the minors until 2005, when he spent a few games there to get up to speed after being signed by the