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Word on "the boards" (by which I mean Twitter) is largely that this particularly crushing loss is the most crushing loss the Blue Jays have managed this year, but despite Marcus Semien's one-in-a-million throwing error (well maybe not one in a million) on a totally routine ground ball to second with two outs in the ninth opening the door for this loss that I do indeed admit to be crushing (simply not the most crushing), I would argue that there was enough to like about this one that I am still standing firmly behind the Friday night game being worse. For starters, we got to see the great Miguel Cabrera's five-hundredth career home run, and although I probably would have enjoyed it all the more had he not hit it off Steven Matz to tie it up in the sixth (hey great game Matz, by the way), it was still quite a thing to see, and the ovation Cabrera received from the Toronto crowd was both meet and right. Also, Bo Bichette went three-for-six on the same day he was stung by a bee. How many fellas can say that? Not many, I'd bet! A brutal loss, no question, but even at its worst -- the Semien throw, for sure -- it involved teachable moment for all the U11-baseball-playing girls out there (if you've time to set your feet, girls, set you feet, please). And everybody who we need to lose either lost, or did not play, so I'm honestly not particularly upset, and not even in an actually this is funny to me sort of way. Four-and-a-half back of the A's and Red Sox now, which is not that bad, but with the White Sox coming into town next, which is not that good. A tough week here could put things out of reach, but a good or even decent week could definitely "keep things interesting" (although to be honest I will be interested regardless).
KS
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