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| A weird rundown from last night, but not the weirdest rundown from last night |
The first inning ended with a triple play (SABR suggests the first 1-3-2-5-6 triple play in Major League history [we did it]), the ninth inning ended in a double play, and though things in between were marginally better than that for a little while, it sure didn't hold. What can you even say about this poor, poor bullpen: the Blue Jays came back to lead after going behind 3-0 early, but poor Anthony Castro just extremely did not have it in relief, charged with four runs (all very much earned) on five hits in a just a third of an inning of work. Imagine, if you dare, being him. Cavan Biggio, who has been legitimately hot (for real this time!) since coming back from the IL with "a neck thing," nearly hit another home run but very tall Aaron Judge made a perfectly timed and really quite lovely leaping catch to snag the ball just as it was leaving the yard (from my perspective, in this instance, the worst possible time). The Blue Jays led each game of this three-game series in the seventh inning, and didn't end up winning any of them. Not one! I am not personally disheartened, because all I am doing is watching or otherwise attending to baseball games, but I have got to think that this is getting a little disheartening for the fellows themselves, maybe? The Blue Jays are now a game under .500 for the first time in what feels like ages (even though this season isn't even very old yet), but they're off to Baltimore for the weekend, and the Orioles have been just brutally, brutally bad, so maybe things are looking up? A quick look ahead reveals to those who would seek such knowledge that fifteen of the Blue Jays' twenty-one remaining games before the All-Star Break are against teams currently under .500, and all but three of those are against teams extremely below .500 (the Orioles, who you know about, but also the Marlins). The other six games will be against the Rays, but hey, that's who we're chasing down.
KS
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