Bartolo / Very Extremely Fortunate

Tested positive for Test Tosterone, suspended for the season. "He was having a remarkably good year ..." (10 wins at age 39,  4-1 / 1.57 in his last five starts). Now we know why! Haha A's! Schadenfreude! His apology, ghostwritten by an underling in the PR department, will be issued later this afternoon.  

He's the only major league player whose last name is a punctuation symbol.  Assuming  he's half the player he would have been without supplements, shouldn't his name be Bartolo Semi-Colon?

Just thinking out loud ... 

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Anibel Sanchez didn't exactly shut down the Blue Jays, but did earn his second win as a Tiger by limiting the Jays' makeshift lineup, missing four regulars, to five hits and two runs in 6.2 innings. 

His own error in the sixth -- a wild pickoff throw -- allowed Rajai Davis to take third. Davis scored on a single by Edwin Encarnacion who moved to second on an error charged to Andy Dirks, whose throw from right Alex Avila couldn't handle. Fortunately for the Pretenders, once they were done throwing the ball around, they still had a 2-1 lead. 

A second Dirks error, on a Moises Sierra single, put the tying and go-ahead runs on third and second, respectively. Fortunately for the P's, Austin Jackson ran down Yorvit Torrealba's deep drive for the third out. 

Fortunately for the slugging P's, they manufactured a third run in the sixth, on an error (Jackson reaching first), sacrifice (Infante), intentional walk (Cabrera) and single (Fielder).

Like the previous game, this one had a curious ending. Last night, Encarnacion was ruled out on strikes, on appeal to first base ump Tom Hallion (good call!) for the last out. Tonight, with two down in the ninth, Omar Vizquel, who had pinch-hit a single and represented the tying run, took off for second. Fortunately for the P's, Avila threw out the 45 year old Vizquel to put this one in the W column. 

Unfortunately for the P's, the White Sox keep winning. Their 2-1 win over the Yankees at Cellphone Provider Field completed a three-game sweep of the New Yorkers and kept them 2 1-2 games ahead of the men from Motown. 

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Bartolo says he's sorry but, as with everyone who gets caught, they're only sorry because they got caught. Career over; another name permanently removed from the list of active former Montreal Expos players.