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Nice job, Ross Stripling! Pitched into the fifth, allowed just the two runs on five hits and a walk . . . if you are looking for more than that out of Ross Stripling, you are welcome to seek, I suppose, yet the discontent you find will be utterly of your own making. That the bullpen -- Borucki, Chatwood, Phelps, Payamps, Dolis -- were excellent behind him is, weirdly enough, not even slightly surprising at this point, and yet it would seem churlish not to note it. As for the bats: Danny Jansen had been in an awful slump, with no hits in his last thirty-five ABs (man, that's a lot of them), before he knocked in a run with a single in the second, and Marcus Semien had a nice day with a two-run homer late and oh yeah also a double that scored both Bo Bichette and Vladdy earlier. And so a sweep of Atlanta! What a pleasure! I never really see Atlanta play, so it was a treat to watch Ronald Acuña Jr., and it was even more treaterly for his only home run all weekend to have not caused any real problems. These three wins put the Blue Jays at 14-12 on the year, and now that they are comfortably yes comfortably above .500 it is time to check in on the American League East standings, where we see that Blue Jays a mere 1.5 back of the Red Sox, who I still do not believe to be as good as I suppose they now quite plainly are, and a full game ahead of the Yankees, who just swept the Tigers and may be "figuring it out." Up next, the A's for four! From the lovely little ballpark in Dunedin to the sad coliseum disfigured to serve a football team that has since just totally left town! It will be in some ways far less æsthetic; and yet I am psyched for it.
KS
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