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| The tendermost baseball embrace I have ever seen |
There was something for everyone to enjoy on this sweltering night in Baltimore: Hyun-Jin Ryu struck out seven over five truly soaked innings of one-run ball; Teoscar Hernández nailed Austin Wynns with a great throw to the plate and a fine swipe tag from Danny Jansen through fogged-up glasses (it was, I am told, so humid); and the Blue Jays scored runs both walloped (a home run by Bo Bichette, further doubles from the resurgent [or maybe just surgent?] Cavan Biggio) and, to the everlasting satisfaction of Pat Tabler, manufactured (a hustle-double from Téo, a grounder to the right side from Randal Grichuk to move him to third, a sac fly from Cavan Biggio that was just deep enough for the fleet Hernández). Throughout all of these happy happenings, the dugout looked like just the loveliest place to be: all the usual merrymakers made merry, and young Alek Manoah seemed to have a million stories to tell the recently arrived Trevor Richards. "The camaraderie on this team," the great Jesse Barfield wrote whilst posting the picture of Lourdes Gurriel Jr. giving Bo Bichette (himself a hugger) a truly wonderful hug, "reminds me of us on our 85 team!" Between all this, and with momentum building, one is led to believe, for a return to Toronto perhaps as early as the end of July, what a joyful night. Three games back of the Wild Card!
KS
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