What a terrific start from Max Scherzer. He went six innings, allowing four hits, one earned, three walks with four strikeouts. He did get some help from a couple of terrific catches by Myles Straw. 104 pitches for Max, more than I\u2019d like to see him throw, but he finished strong.<\/p>\n
He did walk a couple of batters, and then give up a single, to load the bases with no outs in the second, but the Pirates scored just the one run. That was the only inning that he had much trouble.<\/p>\n
Here is one of those two great catches, the other he went back to the wall to make a jumping catch.<\/p>\n
The pen wasn\u2019t light\u2019s out:<\/p>\n
There were a few minor misplays. Bo had a grounder go right through him. Andres Gimenez grabbed a grounder that he should have let Bo take, Bo was moving towards first, Andres away. Andres\u2019 throw was late to first. Straw was a little slow getting a ball into the infield, letting Reynolds turn a single into a double.<\/p>\n
Our defense hasn\u2019t been sharp lately.<\/p>\n
We had ten hits and four walks. Kirk had three. Springer and Lukes had two each. Barger (with a walk), Clement (two k) and Gimenez (walk) went 0 for.<\/p>\n
Jays of the Day: Scherzer (.191 WPA), Springer (.156) and Lukes (.095). Let\u2019s give Straw one too (.056, plus those two catches).<\/p>\n
No one gets the other award. Clement gets the low mark at -.082.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we have a day game. 12:30 Eastern. Chris Bassitt (11-6, 4.22) vs Johan Oviedo making his second start of the season. The first one didn\u2019t go well, one inning, two runs against, with three walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a terrific start from Max Scherzer. He went six innings, allowing four hits, one earned, three walks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82,44148],"class_list":["post-83475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-game-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83475","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=83475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}