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Kevin Gausman cruised once again, and with regard to the outcomes most clearly understood to be within a pitcher's defense-independent control (BB, HR), Kevin Gausman is cruising at historic levels, joining Cy Young (1906) as the only pitchers in "the World Series era" (this is to say 1903 to present) to get this many starts into the season allowing literally zero of either of those (all-too-true) outcomes. Looking good, Gaus! When the Astros finally did touch him for a run in the top of the sixth, the Blue Jays responded quite awesomely in the home half with a Bo Bichette home run just over the wall in right to break the Framber Valdez no-hitter and take the tiny lead. The Astros were good for one more in the seventh, but so too the Blue Jays, with Santiago Espinal singling Matt Chapman home ahead of Yordan Alvarez's actually pretty okay throw to the plate (it would have taken a great throw to beat him). A one-hit Mayza eighth was followed by a one-hit Romano ninth, saved only by a diving one-out grab by George Springer in right on a deep Alex Bregman flyball that I thought was a double the second it left the bat. It wasn't though! Now that the Blue Jays have taken two of three from the Astros in consecutive weekends, I am of the admittedly idiosyncratic view that that should count as the ALCS and we should be all set, but failing broad recognition of this I will content myself (I mean I sure hope) with the Yankees in for three. No Gerrit Cole this time through, which is too bad from the perspective of Vladdy homers but on the whole a positive. Let's who we've got throwing . . . looks like we're going Stripling, Manoah, Kikuchi. I guess we'll see!
KS
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