The bottom of the eighth was one of those great innings for those of us who tend to think we\u2019ve seen everything:<\/p>\n
A great inning, and a ball being just two or three feet foul turned out to be very important (also that Contreras can\u2019t catch, something you would expect a ball player to be able to do).<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Soriano had a very nice start. Six innings, just one earned (a Contreras home run), on four hits, two walks with four strikeouts. Very little was hit hard. He is looking like the real thing. He came out at 90 pitches, I\u2019d have likely let him start the seventh, but John and Pete are closer to the players than I am.<\/p>\n
Mason Fluharty pitched a quick seventh.<\/p>\n
Tyler Rogers a quick eighth.<\/p>\n
Since we were up by a lot, John sat Louis Varland and had Matt Waldron start the ninth. It didn\u2019t go well. He got one out, gave up three hits and a walk. The tying run came to the plate. And Varland came to the mound, getting a fly out and a ground out and save #26.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s three in a row over the Red Sox, and 9 wins in the last 13 games<\/p>\n
We had 12 hits. McAdoo, Vlad, Okamoto and Straw each had two.<\/p>\n
Jays of the Day: Okamoto (0.24 WPA), Soriano (0.21) Rogers (0.11) Varland (0.11), Fluharty (0.09) and for the big walk, Clement (0.08).<\/p>\n
Other Award: Waldron (-0.10), who will be the reason why my doctor talks to me about my blood pressure.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, we have a day game. 3:00 Eastern. We have Payton Tolle (7-6, 3.20) vs. Max Scherzer (1-4, 7.25). Max buddy, let\u2019s keep the bus rolling.<\/p>\n
Win again tomorrow and I might start believing. Tomorrow might be a good day to watch from the pub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bottom of the eighth was one of those great innings for those of us who tend to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82,218135],"class_list":["post-856370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856370","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=856370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}