Starters Sliding Down Slippery Slope

Holy alliteration, Batman! As the picture above indicates, sometimes sliding down a slippery slope is an enjoyable experience. Lately, it's been quite the opposite because the Blue Jays starting pitchers haven’t exactly been pulling their weight.Ricky Romero lost his seventh game of the year last night while giving up a season-high six walks. Romero now has a string of six straight starts where he has not made it into the seventh inning.But it’s not just RR-Cool-Jay who has run into troubles as of late, Roy Halladay has also hit a little bit of a rough patch. Here is how the Blue Jays top two starters have fared in their last three starts: Pitcher Win/Loss ERA Halladay 0-3 7.94 Romero 1-2 5.78 Maybe we should be concerned by these numbers, and maybe we shouldn’t. Halladay’s last three starts have come against the Red Sox (2) and Tampa Bay (1). Romero’s have been against Los Angeles, Boston and New York, so they have definitely faced some ...