 |
| I'm not clapping though |
Alek Manoah got more than a little squeezed by the rightly notorious Angel Hernandez in a third-inning Juan Soto at bat -- and there is arguably no player in either league who needs less help than Juan Soto -- and things fell apart pretty spectacularly from there. After the game, Manoah was placed on the bereavement list (we offer our condolences), so who knows what he was going through while he tried to work Tuesday night. The Blue Jays, at one point down 8-1, got as far back as 8-6 before Saucedo and Dolis got together for a grim four-run bottom of the eighth to put things extremely out of reach. This turns out to have been the last chance, I guess, for Rafael Dolis, without whom the Blue Jays may very well have not nabbed that final weird playoff spot in 2020 (you will recall him clinching a key game against the Yankees, perhaps, as part of his very strong season) but this year he was out of the zone a tonne, and when he threw strikes, he got smoked. And you can run on him. And he works as slowly as any active pitcher, I think. And he was hurt for a bit. Just a tough year all around for young Rafael Dolis, who I think is neat, and for whom we wish all the best in his future endeavours.
KS
No comments:
Post a Comment