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Striking out as a pinch-hitter to end a one-run game on your own bobblehead night? A dark fate, but one endured by Shohei Ohtani in the Angels' 4-3 loss to your Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. Is this the first bad thing to ever happen to Shohei Ohtani? It seems possible. Will it be the last? Probably, yes. Alek Manoah was, once again, really really good, allowing three runs (though only two earned -- three Blue Jays errors on the night) on seven hits (no walks) in six complete innings; Yimi and Trevor Richards both pitched perfectly clean innings, and Jordan Romano struck out the side in the ninth. And the bats, the bats just chipped away, man, they just dunked it in here and there. Alejandro Kirk and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. led the way, and that's what we need, we need to extend that lineup, extend that batting order, as Pat Tabler is wont to say: get things back to where they were last year where you had to worry not just about one-through-four but five-through-eight as well (no diss, nine). My only complaint about this lovely game is that it was not available through the usual means of "being on the tv station (or computer phone equivalent for computers and phones) that Ted Rogers' ghost also owns" but instead was consigned to Apple TV+ or something, and it was brutal. It was brutal. I did not go through the many simple steps required to watch the game that I had figured I had probably already signed up to see (apparently not!), and instead had it on the radio and/or a grey-area, non-Apple TV+ (I am still not sure that is the name) streaming site that honestly has fewer sports betting ads associated with it than the league-approved sources. Most gallingly, the non-Sportsnet nature of Friday night's game meant no Blue Jays in Thirty the next day, and we were reduced to catching up with the MLB.com condensed game, which, I mean, actually they did a really good job. Fine. It was fine.
KS
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