2021 Game Forty-Nine: Yankees 5, Blue Jays 3 (F/7)

 

I'm honestly not sure which game this one's from

In the first game of the double header, Dan Shulman related that although Bo Bichette says he has not felt good at the plate lately, he does feel good about the way he is battling through the predicament of not feeling good at the plate, so although he is not feeling good, he feels pretty good about it. And then he hit two home runs, the first a solo shot in the day game, the second a three-run high fly ball that barely made it over the fence on a pitch that was such a hilarious hanger that it looked like a cartoon representation of a hanger, or something -- and Bo's immediate reaction was not one of celebration (he is not adverse to admiring his mighty wallops [nor should he be!]) but of seeming frustration at the thought that he maybe got under that juicy pitch and didn't get enough of it to clear the wall. But no worries! It was all pretty delightful. Not Robbie Ray's best outing, though certainly not his worst, but I guess Aaron Judge, who, although not silly, was made to look silly with some of his swings against Manoah earlier in the day, elected to put to rest any rumors of silliness with a nice big home run in the third. The Blue Jays had a couple of entertaining plays in the field, throwing out two Yankees at the plate (including Gary Sanchez by about thirty or forty feet on one of the worst "sends" you'll ever see from a third base coach at any level), but if you're even in a position to be throwing a couple of guys out at the plate in the same seven-inning baseball game, you're probably getting touched up a little out there. And so it went. A sweep in Yankee Stadium would have been an absolutely ideal way to end the losing streak, but taking two out of three in New York really does feel almost as good. And now it's Ryu day!

KS