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| Sometimes when the fellas do this one you can see they actually say "boom" if you look real close |
After a fairly listless Friday night with the bats, Charlie Montoyo shuffled the order and was immediately proven a genius by the five Blue Jays home runs that followed: Springer! Semien! Bo! Téo times two! Conspicuous by his absence in this list is Vladimir Guerrero Jr., but he ripped a double off the wall that got there so fast George Springer had no chance to score from first; think about how ripped-off-the-wall of a double that had to be. Batting George Springer leadoff does not really count as a bold move, I guess, but I like it, and I like Vladdy hitting second even more, probably because I am still very much under the sway of the early twenty-first-century SABRmetric notion that, while it will barely matter over the course of the season, your best hitter should nevertheless be batting second. Semien third makes a lot of sense, and Bo Bichette in the clean-up spot is pretty neat. So I am all in!
There is also the matter of George Springer's catch. I am pretty sure this is the best catch in Blue Jays history, and I say that having seen I think all of the leading contenders. Devon White in the 1992 World Series for what should have been a triple play is unlikely to ever be matched for context, of course, and (current-Met!) Kevin Pillar certainly had a bunch of great diving ones in his time in Toronto, but Springer's (which you can see here ["Certified Glover Boy," writes the ever-ready Blue Jays Twitter social mediaste]) is the best of any of them as far as I can recall.
In closing, here are four Bo Bichette/Vladimir Guerrero Jr. screengrabs Ian Hunter posted after the game. Enjoy.
KS
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