Sunday, July 4, 2021

2021 Game Eighty: Blue Jays 11, Rays 1

Questionable hats this holiday weekend but unimpeachable socks

This one was, quite frankly, a delight: a young-career-best start from Alek Manoah (three hits and a walk with ten strikeouts over seven innings! a no-hitter through five!), Vladdy's twenty-seventh home run of the season (he is himself, I need not remind you, a number twenty-seven also), and a true "Springer Dinger" to get it all started (Dan Shulman insists he will not utter those words but I think he will yield to them in time). Everybody in the lineup had at least a hit, except for Randal Grichuk, who nevertheless got on and came around to score, so he got to have fun too. As did we all! With six of these last nine games before the All-Star Break coming against the Rays, who remain the team to beat, I mean, like, it's nice to beat them.

KS

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