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Alek Manoah returned from the bereavement list (our condolences once more) in form so fine: a run on five hits through six? Against these mighty White Sox, who look like they will be trouble for everybody in the postseason? Absolutely! Charlie Montoyo rightly elected not to mess around in the slightest as concerned bullpen deployment, opting for the Cimber, Mayza, and Romano to take it the rest of the way, which they, in fact, totally did. The only Blue Jay with more than a lone hit on the day was Reese McGuire (who has had some really great at bats of late), lifted for pinch-runner Breyvic Valera in the eighth. Velera boldly scampered (you can scamper boldly, I think) home with a nifty slide for the winning run on a Craig Kimbrel wild pitch. Quite a game! The other notable moment for me was grumpy DUI-collector Tony La Russa getting all heated up at his catcher Seby Zavala over the location of a 3-0 pitch that Vladdy took to right field for his 90th RBI of the season. Rather than notice how far outside Zavala had set up, and the extent to which Lance Lynn uncharacteristically missed his spot, La Russa just full-on berated the guy about something he himself was wrong about before Zavala was even all the way down the dugout steps. There has been a good deal of "he's still got that fire!" nonsense in response to this moment from I guess awful fathers and childless awful-fathers-in-spirit but as you can perhaps already tell from the way I am characterizing that response, I reject it entirely. The White Sox are such an enjoyable team this year, and it is a shame that they are saddled with this toxic doof.
KS
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