Blue Jays 6 Angels 5
I loved that game. He had something for everyone.
You want to see the bad defense, we have it for you.
I want to ask the administrators, this was the night.
You want to complain about the baseball, well, get behind Danny Jansen and Matt Chapman in the row.
Referee bad calls, yes, you have them too.
Let’s start with the top of the eighth:
Jays, just coming down for a run. Kyle Barraclough comes on to the pitch. He passes to Vlad in four fields. I thought he was throwing around Vlad, who seemed stupid to put him in the tie, but okay. He then walked Teoscar Hernandez on five pitches. Okay, maybe he doesn’t get close to Vlad. Maybe I can’t find the dish.
Danny Jansen crushes one. I’m sure it’s right outside the park. For sure. But stuck to the wall. Vlad in the second was also safe, not tagged. I should have done it, but I was by his side, I should have been well out of the park. I said I hate white balls. I thought we missed our chance.
Barraclough out, Aaron Loup enters.
Lourdes Gurriel came out looking. He’s not a good hitter.
Matt Chapman makes it 3-0 and field 4 is clearly a ball, but he called it up once. I was a little upset. Maybe I woke up the neighbors (and my wife). The next Chapman throw makes it to the right. Juan Lagares collapses and fails. Then Trout catches the ball, but Lagares drags it and grabs it, and does it a little before he catches it. The right fielder should always get it. Then Lagares misses the cut man. Two races mark and we are ahead again.
George Springer comes in to finish the match. I’m not a fan of IW, but Raimel Tapia is next. He is a) does not hit well and b) is left-handed and Loup is good against left-handers.
Tapia cuts one along the left field line and Chapman scores. We are two. Santiago Espinal has stopped short to finish the game but we are happy.
We were less happy at the end of the seventh.
Julian Merryweather comes on to the pitch. Not a popular choice.
Shohei Ohtani gets up first and touches his arm for a throw. He barely touched it, Jays challenged, but the replay showed he was hit. In slow motion, it was easy to see. But I agree with using the challenge in the seventh entry.
Mike Trout is next and proved why he is the best player of this generation. Home run to the dead center. He didn’t clean the wall much, but enough. We have gone from one to one down now in a hurry.
A Matt Duffy single brought Merryweather out and into Cimber.
It’s fair to wonder if Cimber should have been there first, but then the Jays want Merryweather to pitch in high-level positions. Giving a homer to Trout is something that will happen.
Fortunately, the above-mentioned top of the eighth covered all sins.
Before?
Yusei Kikuchi was not great. He went in and out of trouble almost every entry until the fifth. But he gave up two on the fifth inning.
His fifth was single. Fly deep (Ohtani). Single (Trout). Double RBI (Duffy). RBI out. Walk and line up.
Kikuchi gave 9 hits, 1 walk, but only 2 wins in 5 innings. Luck or clutch?
David Phelps gave us a sixth goalless draw.
We talked about Merryweather and Cimber in the seventh.
Trevor Richards was fantastic in the eighth.
Jordan Romano, making his third straight game, had problems in the ninth. He hit the tortilla. We got a double play ball from Duffy, but Chapman made it a little and we only got one out. Jered Walsh flew in. That should have been the end of the post.
But Max Stassi walked away. Brandon Marsh made a single at home (thought Teoscar should have made the catch, played it very conservatively. One walk, loaded the base.
Charlie took Romano out of the game. Ross Stripling arrives. Ross Stripling ??
Stripling went 0-2 on Andrew Velazquez and then got a soft ground ball along the front line. He was a little worried, but Stripling grabbed him and tagged Valazquez.
Save for Stripling.
Let’s say it twice. Save for Stripling.
On offense?
We’ve done enough. We talked about the eighth of three races above. We also have:
- One in the first: Doubles from an out by Bo and Vlad. We should have scored more. Teoscar made a single, so we had runners in the corners with an out, but Jansen came out and Gurriel came out.
- Two in the seventh: Jansen started with a walk. Two outs later, Jansen in second place, Cavan Biggio hit the third double of the basic rule of the game. And Alejandro Kirk (pinch by Bradley Zimmer) made a single at Cavan’s house. I wondered why he didn’t pinch Springer, but Charlie chose the right guy.
Chapman and Bichette had two hits each. Espinal, Guerrero, Hernandez, Biggio, Kirk and Tapia each had a hit.
Jansen and Gurriel had 0 holes, but Jansen hit what should have been a home run.
Jays of the Day: Chapman (.508 WPA), Stripling (.264), Vlad (.209), Kirk (.201), Biggio (.157) and Tapia (.120).
Suckage: Merryweather (-.478), Romano (-.181, almost fair, volunteered to throw and didn’t have any), Gurriel (-.230) and Jansen (-.148. Also not fair, hit the which should do). has been a home run, and would have given him a JoD) and Spinal (-.114).
These are four consecutive victories. Tomorrow is 4:00 a.m. East. Berrio (3-2, 4.75) against Patrick Sandoval (3-1, 1.79).
There was a very scary moment in the game. Kurk Suzuki, warming up his pitcher before the start of an inning, made a ball bounce and hit him in the neck (climb under his mask). He was a little on his knees, then he helped out of the field, he looked like he had fainted in the dugout. They had to take him to the clubhouse.
We haven’t received any updates in a long time. But they say a bruise and that she is alert. I think he will go to the IL, but I am very relieved that it is not worse. Because at the time it seemed very serious.
It’s late, I won’t spend time trying this.
It was a long game. 3:45 minutes. I said I’d rather make an exciting long game than a boring short game.