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| Please be careful, Bo. |
It is a pretty neat story that the home run Bo Bichette hit not just over the wall in left but all the way into Lansdowne street, and indeed rolled right over by the Gold's Gym where his parents first met. Pretty neat, right? But that aside, this was not a super fun game! Grichuk added his fifth homer, too, but the Blue Jays had only two other hits all night, and they kicked it around a little in the field, in the broader sense of "kicking it around" that encompasses not even getting there in the first place in order to literally kick it. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. has arguably the coolest hair in the majors right now, and we all want him to succeed, but I've to gotta say that I wonder about some of these routes sometimes. Hyun-Jin Ryu wasn't awful or anything but you never expect him to give up four runs in five innings -- Xander Bogaerts' three-run home run was really the issue here, wasn't it? But then Payamps and Castro were great out of the bullpen. Pitching has not been the problem, nor has the fielding, really, as awkward as it has looked at times: the Blue Jays so far have allowed the fewest runs per game of any American League team, which is extraordinarily strange. But look:
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| I told you it was freaky. |
It's the bats! Eventually George Springer and Téo will be in the line-up but for now it's mostly just Bo and of course Vladdy -- who made a rare appearance at third late in the game! Cherish these glimpses of third-base Vladdy! For they are fleeting.
KS
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