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| That eighth inning though |
The Blue Jays bullpen is largely injured, and the guys that are left have been utterly brutal, trailing every other bullpen in either league in some key measures by a lot ever since the slide started around May 20th, so while it is unfortunate that they could not hold onto the 5-2 lead they were left with after actually a pretty impressive outing by Hyun-Jin Ryu, who allowed just the two runs in six innings despite not having his best stuff (since the crackdown on sticky substances has occurred, nearly 70% of MLB pitchers have seen a decline in their spin rate, so few have their best stuff right now!), it is also not particularly remarkable. What I would choose to draw your attention to, if I may, is that the Blue Jays only got one run out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out bottom of the first, and then had them all loaded up again when trailing by a run in the eighth, but young Bo Bichette flied out to right. Until the bullpen either heals up (which will not happen quickly), or help arrives (I guess that could happen quickly? if Ross Atkins really wanted it to?), the Blue Jays, who are already scoring lots of runs, are just going to have to score way more runs. If they do, it'll be neat!
KS
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