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A cursory glance at the box score would suggest that the bullpen blew this one (three runs in the bottom of the eighth in a 5-2 loss), which is not untrue, but when the Blue Jays turned two-on, nobody-out in the top of the inning into just one run, and ended the inning real quick on a Bo Bichette "K" and a Vladdy "GIDP," and came away with a tie (on the road) rather than a lead (on the road), that seemed pretty definitive. It's sure how I felt about it at the time, anyway! The weirdest part of this game, for me, was learning that the "warning track" at the irredeemable Tropicana Field is a false track that in truth offers no warning, in that rather than grass yielding to dirt, or artificial turf yielding dirt, or even just one kind of artificial surface transitioning to another to give the outfielder a feel (or "warning") for how close they were to the wall, it is just the same surface painted brown. Which is unbelievable. I thought it was pretty strange that George Springer went up when and how he did to try and snag a ball that, alas, went unsnagged, but that's why! Also he hurt his ankle on the play and is day-to-day. That's five losses in a row, none of them a whole lot of fun. And this was a Gausman start! You only get so many!
KS
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