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I like these seven-inning doubleheaders! And I have decided that I will pay no heed to objectors to this new practice who had not previously been regularly watching all eighteen (or more) innings of doubleheaders previously. Fourteen innings is totally enough baseball for one day, and you can call it however games you want, as far as I'm concerned. In the afternoon game, Steven Matz took a no-hitter into the sixth, and Rafael Dolis made things way more ticklish in the ninth than they needed to be, but Santiago Espinal bailed him out, starting a pretty slick double play that could maybe have been a triple play with a slower runner heading to first? For a second there Marcus Semien kind of looked like he might chuck it over to see? But thought better of it? (Hey the Joey Votto triple play today was really something!) Vladdy went two-for-three with another home run, and though I am not surprised, I am nevertheless very pleased! In the evening game, Vladdy got super fleet, dashing first to third on Rowdy Tellez's fairly sharply hit single and then tagging up on a fly ball to shallow right -- he went hard, the throw was up the line, and everything was great! Maybe the thrill of small ball went to everybody's heads, though, as before you know it, there were needless outs on the basepaths, and Jonathan Davis (who had homered in the afternoon) kept trying to bunt with two strikes even though the play (which had been on) had been called off, and strike-three on a bunted foul ball is just so dispiriting to see. Anyway, the Blue Jays definitely had their chances in the evening game, and you couldn't even mind it that much when Salvador Perez hit the walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh, since everybody likes that guy. He seems nice!
KS
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