We got more than 2 runs!!!!
They should have scored a few runs in the first inning. It started single (Nathan Lukes), single (Yohendrick Piñango) and walk (Vladimir Guerrero). The walk included Vlad challenging a called strike, which, the review showed, was easily a strike. I hate blowing a challenge in the first inning.
Bases loaded, no outs, you start to hope for a big inning.
Jesús Sánchez hit into a double play (scoring a run) and Ernie Clement struck out.
We got the other run in the third, Lukes homered.
Patrick Corbin wasn’t good. He gave up a run in the second and three more in the third (Mauricio Dubón homered). He ended up allowing four earned in five inning.
Yariel Rodríguez pitched a quick sixth and got one out in the seventh, with a walk. Adam Macko came in and gave up a single and a home run, before getting out of the inning.
Hayden Juenger had a 1, 2, 3 eighth.
Brandon Valenzuela crushed a home run in the ninth, 399 feet. But that was it for ninth inning fun.
I thought the Braves organist deserved points for playing ‘if I only had a brain’ when Myles Straw came to bat in the ninth.
We had 8 hits and 3 walks. But an 0 for 4 with RISP didn’t help (though it says a lot that we only had four runners in scoring position).
Joe did a rant about the Jays not catching a popup, saying it would the little things that were killing them. I respectfully object. They are losing because they aren’t scoring, But your mileage may vary.
Jays of the Day? Well, there wasn’t any. Lukes had the high mark at 0.07 WPA.
Other Award: Corbin (-0.24), Sánchez (-0.12), and Macko (-0.9).
Tomorrow we have game three of this series. And it is a bullpen day, while the Braves will start Chris Sale (8-3, 2.01). That should be fun.