Braves 5, Blue Jays 1: Again.

Yeah, he got most of that one.

As the Atlanta Braves continued to exact their horrible revenge for the 1992 World Series yesterday, I totally got to a point where I didn't even care, particularly, that the Blue Jays loaded the bases in the eighth inning. They could have tied the game with but single swing of J. P. Arencibia's reasonably mighty bat, but I was so sure it wasn't going to happen that I didn't even break vegetable preparation stride (getaway day; afternoon game; it was wrapping up right around meal time; there you go). I take a small measure of consolation in Jose Bautista's home run, and his leaping catch at the wall to rob Jordan Schafer of a home run in the seventh. The previous batter, Brooks Conrad (note: I know none of these players at all), hit a ball pretty much the same place, but Bautista didn't play it quite as brilliantly and it was initially ruled to have been a ball in play and a triple but was rightly overturned for a home run. It was all pretty neat.


Also it is perhaps worth noting in closing that Jose Bautista, despite yesterday's awesomeness, has come back to the pack. According to FanGraphs, Bautista still sits comfortably atop the WAR leader board ahead of Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Reyes, and Matt Kemp, but according to the slightly different formulas employed by the keepers of Baseball Reference, Bautista is now neck and neck with Gonzalez and slightly behind Matt Kemp, who it must be said is dealing with a post-Rihanna life better than anyone could have anticipated. And so I salute him. 


KS