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| Hush hush, Vladito cautions; voices carry. |
Another home opener, kind of! And this one sounded so great, with five thousand or so fans in Buffalo (the first major league game they could take in in 106 years!) feeling like many times that in lovely little Sahlen Field (did the gentle and prolific Travis Sawchik imply it was a sort of model for Camden Yards? could this be?). There was much joy, and much to be joyous about, such as like how Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 4-4 with a home run and a double on seven pitches -- the homer and the double came on the first two pitches he saw! The Vladito Triplewatch was in full effect from that point on, but in all honestly it is always at least a little in effect (it is an enticing prospect). Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had a home run as well, which was nice to see after he totally totally blew a route in left field earlier and it cost some bases. I like Lourdes Gurriel, and find him cool guy with arguably the best hair in major league history, but that guy goes on some adventures out there in left. Another fine outing from Robbie Ray, and the Mayza (nice!) to Dolis (phew!) to Romano (eep!) bullpen came through ably. We don't see much of the Marlins, and so I want to be sure to note this time around that Don Mattingly at this point looks more like Tony LaRussa than Tony LaRussa currently does or perhaps ever did, and that Starling Marte is probably my favourite name in all of baseball these days (also not hurting: Jazz Chisholm Jr.). Meanwhile, the Yankees and the Rays are kind of going to town on each other, and the Red Sox are having trouble with that Astros, all of which leads to AL East tightening, which is very much what one likes to see, from the perspective of the really-quite-good-but-<<néanmoins>>-fourth-place Toronto (Buffalo) Blue Jays. Let's. Go.
KS
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