Yankees 5 Jays 4<\/p>\n
Well, we didn\u2019t expect to win them all….<\/p>\n
Jeff Hoffman, pitching in his fourth game in five days, gave up a home run to Ben Rice in the ninth, which was the game-winning run. Hoffman\u2019s been a throwback to the old days when a closer would go day after day. <\/p>\n
Max Scherzer had a rough first inning. He gave up a leadoff single, a double, then got Aaron Judge to strike out. But then Jazz Chisholm homered, and we were down 3-0 before getting to bat. Max would go 5 innings, allowing 4 earned (giving up a homer to Cody Bellinger in the fifth) on 5 hits and a walk. <\/p>\n
Mason Fluharty threw a perfect sixth and seventh. Justin Bruihl gave up a walk, but got two strikeouts in the eighth.<\/p>\n
We chipped at the early lead, getting:<\/p>\n
One in the first: George Springer took a one-out walk, Vlad followed with a single. After Bo struck out, Addison Barger singled home Springer.
\nOne in the fifth: George and Vlad started the inning with singles. Bo hit into a double play (very nicely turned) and Barger again singled in another run.
\nTwo in the sixth: Myles Straw hit a bounce right at shortstop Anthony Volpe, but went hard down the line, and Volpe\u2019s throw short-hopped Rice at first for an error. An out later, Davis Schneider doubled Straw home. An out later, Springer singled home Davis. <\/p>\n
We had other chances. Bo led off the seventh with a double but we didn\u2019t score him. Vlad singled to lead off the ninth but….you know. We loaded the bases in the second, and didn\u2019t score.<\/p>\n
We had 11 hits, so we should have scored more. Vlad had 3. George and Addison had 2. <\/p>\n
Nathan Lukes had an 0 for 5. He\u2019s had a rough time lately, just 2 for his last 20 at bats. And Krik also went 0 for 5.<\/p>\n
Jays of the Day: Springer (.245 WPA), Schneider (.213), Fluharty (.124), Guerrero (.108) and Bruihl (.106)<\/p>\n
Other Award: Hoffman (-.303, not really fair, but what in life is fair?), Scherzer (-.186), Kirk (-.232), Lukes (-.218), Bichette (-.218, 1 for 5 but he had runners on base a lot) and Clement (-.091, 1 for 4).<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we have game three of the series. Max Fried (11-3, 2.43) vs. Chris Bassitt (10-4, 3.89). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees 5 Jays 4 Well, we didn\u2019t expect to win them all…. Jeff Hoffman, pitching in his fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,1218,49,48,700,9835,7674,15449,13019,82,696,1505],"class_list":["post-17867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-banter","tag-bluebird","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-front-page","tag-game-recaps","tag-jays","tag-lose","tag-one","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}