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A really, really impressive "settling in after some early jitters" from Robbie Ray in this one, as the twenty-six-pitch first inning left me resigned to a long, slow night of no fun, but Ray really kept it together, and the Thornton/Chatwood/Romano bullpen, once handed off to, continued to look (somehow) like the best bullpen in all of baseball (somehow). Téo's little chopper between first and second (with nobody covering first!) to plate a key run was a lovely little moment of baseball, and Marcus Semien continues to be the Blue Jays hottest hitter of late, but the real thrill of this game was the head-to-head feel of Ronald Acuña Jr., who homered, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who very much did likewise. Vladdy tied the game twice, the second time on a single to the left that probably would have scored two if it hadn't been hit 116.3 MPH, an unreasonable and actually unhelpful speed. Vladdy's little mini-slump seems to be behind him? Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez, who were great last night in the parts of the game I had on, noted that it was probably not fair to expect Vladdy to hit like .380 all season, but maybe it isn't actually? It becomes increasingly hard to say. Hyun-Jin Ryu on the mound tonight!
KS
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