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The Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen, frankly, has not been very good in this postseason. Entering Monday\u2019s Game 7, the group had a 6.02 ERA and only one successful save.<\/p>\n
In that Game 7, however, the Blue Jays showed the ability that still resides in that group.<\/p>\n
Louis Varland, a right-hander acquired at the trade deadline, recorded four outs while giving up just one run, and has a 3.27 ERA in the playoffs. Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez, another right-handed deadline acquisition, pitched a scoreless inning to lower his October ERA to 4.05.<\/p>\n
Toronto used a couple starters from there, getting scoreless innings from Gausman and fellow veteran Chris Bassitt.<\/p>\n
But at the end, the final three outs belonged to veteran right-hander Jeff Hoffman, a 2024 All-Star who had a disappointing debut season after signing in Toronto this offseason, but now has both of their postseason saves.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays\u2019 one big bullpen weakness is its lack of dominant left-handed depth. Mason Fluharty has been their best southpaw, but has a 6.23 ERA in the playoffs. Brendon Little, Eric Lauer and ex-Dodger Justin Bruihl are also on their roster, but haven\u2019t been any more effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen, frankly, has not been very good in this postseason. Entering Monday\u2019s Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,12642,17084,1862,138397,67138,591,138400,138398,89290,23309,138399,161,85,3018,3920,7891,1547],"class_list":["post-229094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blue-jays","tag-era","tag-game","tag-good-playoff","tag-home-run","tag-mlb","tag-non-fastball","tag-op","tag-postseason","tag-rbi","tag-rotation","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-toronto","tag-world-series","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}