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Rather than cut to commercials (or the MLB.TV absence thereof) once the top of the first had wrapped, Sportsnet showed us young Alek Manoah take the mound and run through all of his warmup pitches, the whole deal. This had the potential to maybe seem a little overdone if his début ended up being poor or even kind of slightly normal, but the way things worked out -- just two hits and two walks over six shut-out innings with seven strikeouts -- it seems to have been a reasonable call. Manoah's cheering section made up a significant portion of the tiny Yankee Stadium crowd for the first half of the double header, and his mother was so emotionally bound up in every moment that Buck Martinez quipped that we needed to keep her on a pitch count (good one, Buck!). This couldn't have gone better, and at a time where the Blue Jays couldn't really have needed it much more, what with all the, you know, starting pitching things. The Blue Jays bats were quiet (just four hits) except when they were loud (back-to-back solo home run from Semien and Bichette), but they didn't need to do a whole lot with Manoah throwing like he was throwing. What fun!
KS
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