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After Vladimir Guerrero hit his league-leading twenty-fifth home run in the third to go with George Springer's third the inning before, and with Alek Manoah cruising, it seemed the worst that was going to happen to the Blue Jays Friday night were a couple of really, really bad check-swing non-calls by Joe West. But no, it took Charlie Montoyo too long to get to Jordan Romano when Chatwood and Saucedo didn't have it, and then in the tenth inning Trent Thorton turned out to be, like, made of walks. If Randal Grichuk is able to squeeze the fly ball he ran down in foul territory, does any of it turn out this way? One wonders; one can only wonder. Maybe it's for the best, in a sense, in that the Orioles had lost their previous twenty games on the road -- yeah, twenty! -- which is in fact every road game they have played since May 5th, when John Means threw a no-hitter for them, and then, if I am remembering this right, immediately got hurt and is out until after the All-Star break. So the Orioles were both "due" and "really needed that one," two powerful forces of saying things after games. A drag of a loss, as all games lost late turn out to be, but if the Blue Jays can take three of four from the Orioles that will still be totally fine (a split would be a little dark, honestly). Hyun-Jin Ryu on the mound tomorrow!
KS
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