Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 1
That wasn’t the laugh riot that was yesterday’s game.
Alek Manoah didn’t seem to be at his best early and for a while it looked like he wasn’t 100% healthy. I really thought he was going to be or should be removed from the game. The trainer came out to talk to him, and he appeared to have pain in his shoulder. But he deleted it.
And he seemed to get better as the game went on.
He went 6 innings, allowed 7 hits, no walks and 7 strikeouts. He only gave up one run on a Bobby Dalbeck home run.
Yimi Garcia pitched the seventh, working around a walk and striking out two.
Adam Cimber started the eighth. He had trouble finding the strike zone. He gave up a walk, hit a batter and left the game after getting Franchy Cordero to pitch.
Jordan Romano got the last out of the inning, despite a pretty creative bullpen by Roberto Ortiz. Romano pitched a quick ninth for his 21st save of the season, ending it with a strikeout.
And we didn’t have the day with the bats that we had yesterday.
Only 7 hits on the day, and unlike yesterday, when all the starters had at least two hits, nobody had two hits today.
But this is enough to get 4 runs. They all made it to the third inning:
- Matt Chapman led off the inning with a single.
- Santiago Espinal was asked to hit and run and singled. Chapman scored on the play.
- Cavan Biggio doubled.
- Santiago scored on George Springer’s single.
- And Cavan scored from Alejandro Kirk’s sack.
We have one more in the ninth:
- Kirk led off with a single and Bradley Zimmer drove in a run.
- Zimmer stole second and moved to third on Bo Bichette’s groundout.
- Teoscar Hernandez doubled home Zimmer.
- Teoscar moved to third when the Red Sox pitcher threw wide of second on a pick-off attempt.
- Matt Chapman walked and stole second, perhaps hoping to get a pitch. But Santiago struck out to end the inning.
The Red Sox weren’t all that helpful, committing only one error on the day.
For our part, Lourdes was chosen at first base.
The Red Sox were a little unhappy with Manoah’s celebration after the strikeouts. As always, if you don’t like it, play better.
Jays of the Day: Manoah (.254 WPA), Romano (.124) and Biggio (.090).
No one got Suckage’s number. Teoscar was slugged at -.087, even with the RBI double (one of the Jays’ only two extra-base hits).
We have a 1:30 Eastern start tomorrow. Ross Stripling (5-3, 3.03) starts for us. Someone named Brayan Bello (0-1, 10.13). He is making his third career start.