That seemed like the Ernie Clement show. His defense, especially in the ninth inning, was amazing. And he was 2 for 3, with a home run, triple, 3 RBI, 3 runs. What a day he had.<\/p>\n
Spencer Miles did a nice job as the \u2018bulk\u2019 guy, going 4.1 innings, allowing 2 hits, including a Colton Cowswer home run, 2 earned, 1 walk and 5 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Braydon Fisher pitched the first inning and he started the inning with a walk and a single. A ground out moved the runners to second and third with one out. But he got out of the inning with a pair of strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Jeff Hoffman came into the game in the sixth with one on and one out and gave up a home run to Pete Alonso, to make it a 6-3 game. But a strikeout and a ground out ended the inning.<\/p>\n
Mason Fluharty pitched the seventh giving up another home run, making it a 6-4 game, but then got two quick strikeouts. John left him in to face Gunnar Henderson to start the eighth, and he got a very soft ground ball. Unfortunately, too soft, an infield single.<\/p>\n
Tyler Rogers came in and got two quick ground outs, one a terrific play by Clements and a strikeout.<\/p>\n
Louis Varland got the ninth. It went line out, ground out (3-1, nice play by Vlad) and ground out (amazing play by Clement). Save number ten for Louis, though he should share the save with Ernie.<\/p>\n
On offense? We got 12 hits and 3 walks. We went 3 for 10 with RISP, but then it was a very important 3 hits.<\/p>\n
One in the second: Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez led off with a single, and was replaced by Clement on a 5-4 ground out. Brandon Valenzuela doubled Ernie to third and Kazuma Okamoto singled in one. Unfortunately an Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez strikeout and Myles Straw ground out ended the inning.Four in the third: George Springer ground out (Kevin Pillar talked about how good it was he had a long at bat, I don\u2019t know, 6 pitches is ok and all but\u2026.) and Nathan Lukes struck out (4 pitches). But Vlad went to a full count, before taking a walk. I\u2019d say it was a good at bat, but he chased two pitches in there. S\u00e1nchez singled into center, off the second baseman. And Ernie Clement homered. Suddenly it was 4-1. Singles from Valenzuela, Okamoto and Gim\u00e9nez scored the fifth run. Okamoto tried for third (not all that bad a decision, I thought the O\u2019s would throw home too) and was tagged out.One in the fifth: Clement tripled with one out and Valenzuela hit a sac fly. 6-1.<\/p>\n
Just about everyone on offense contributed. Valenzuela had 3 hits. S\u00e1nchez, Clement (homer and triple), Okamoto and Gim\u00e9nez each had 2 hits. Lukes had one. Springer was 0 for 2 with 2 walks. Vlad 0 for 3, with 1 walk, which turned out to be an important one. Straw was 0 for 3, but did make the plays in the outfield.<\/p>\n
Jays of the Day: Clement (0.25, plus the defense), Rogers (0.14), and Valenzuela (0.13). Let\u2019s give honorary mention to Miles, Varland, Okamoto and S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n
Other Award: Lukes is the only one that had the number (-0.10). I really didn\u2019t think he had a bad game, just didn\u2019t get the hit when it would have helped out.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we have game three with the O\u2019s. Another win would be nice. Shane Baz (3-5, 4.29) goes against Kevin Gausman (4-4, 3.36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That seemed like the Ernie Clement show. His defense, especially in the ninth inning, was amazing. And he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,218135],"class_list":["post-720636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-toronto-blue-jays-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720636","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=720636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}