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It looked like Robbie Ray had low-key squandered a nice little three-run lead (Semien had doubled in Grichuk and Gurriel, Biggio hit a sacrifice fly to score Vladdy) when he gave up a three-run home run to Ty France in the top of the sixth -- I say "low-key" because giving up three runs in six innings is a fairly reasonable thing to do, and I do not wish to speak ill of it -- but no, it turned out okay: on the same day the Toronto Star ran Mike Wilner's "were I Bo Bichette, I would simply have more plate discipline" piece (I am almost certainly characterizing it somewhat unfairly, and yet not completely unfairly), Bo hit a three-run home run of his own a little later in that very same sixth inning and it was, quite frankly, super exciting to be around. Marcus Semien, having seen that three-run home runs were good to do, chose to hit one in the seventh, and the bullpen went Mayza to Barnes to Saucedo, allowing nary a run to bring the Blue Jays to a mere four games out of the wild card. Which is interesting. Which is interesting. Steven Matz pitches today, and Hyun-Jin Ryu tomorrow, so I am pretty stoked. Oh also! Did you notice that Ross Atkins traded Joe Panik for bullpen help the day after I noted in these very pages that Santiago Espinal had made Panik's rôle seemingly a little redundant? Which is also interesting. Which. Is also. Interesting.
KS
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