2021 Game One-Twenty-Five: Blue Jays 3, White Sox 1

 

not pictured: all the grunting

Of Robbie Ray's fourteen strikeouts on the night (that's so many!), my favourite, and seemingly Robbie Ray's favourite, too, was the last one: Tim Anderson to end the top of the seventh with runners on. Ray got super fired up about it, though it is worth noting that his yelling of yeeaarrrrggghhhhh or whatever it was, exactly, was directed towards the dugout and not at Tim Anderson specifically (celebration is "I did this!"; taunting is "I did this to you," as Dave Cameron once helpfully noted on a FanGraphs audio from like six years ago). Nevertheless, Tim Anderson took note of this yeeaarrrrggghhhhhing, and took it in smiley good cheer whilst saying, it would seem, "Chill out. Chill out. Peace" (I am no Jomboy, certainly, but there seems to be consensus on this). It was all quite merry! As was Alejandro Kirk knocking in the winning run in a big two-out rally in the bottom of the eighth. 

KS