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La Makina! This is how I felt, and something I may well have low-key exclaimed, watching José Berríos' ridiculous hard curveballs "miss bats" in this 2-1 Blue Jays win to end what was, I think for all of us, a disturbing five-game losing streak. I have not gone back to check if this is exactly the case, but my impression of José Berríos' starts this season is that they have followed a pretty strict bimodal distribution, if I am using that term correctly, in that individual José Berríos starts only rarely approach his mean performance, but instead, he is either amazing, on the one hand, or, on the other, he has just a brutal, brutal time out there? It is all thesis and antithesis; when will that moment of synthesis arrive? Maybe he could just like give up three runs in six-and-a-third for a bunch of starts in a row and we'll see how that works out? For everybody? It wouldn't have been enough in this one though, I suppose, as all the Blue Jays managed were the solo home runs for Matt Chapman (who played very well in his return to Oakland [he did not seem especially nostalgic when asked about it; he was certainly polite, but really no more than that]) and Bo Bichette (who swaggered out of the box on a squeaker). I see now that those were the thirteenth home runs of both Chapman's and Bo's seasons, and I bet they would both like to pick up the pace just slightly in the second half (thirty home runs is not all that much better than twenty-six home runs and yet thirty home runs is is also enormously better than twenty-six home runs). Adam Cimber got six enormous outs in the seventh and eighth, and Jordan Romano, who we have not seen much of lately, struck out a pair in a clean bottom of the ninth. I have just now seen that Berríos' six innings of one-run, four-hit, one-walk baseball brings him to exactly 0.0 fWAR on the season (which is better than his -0.4 bWAR). That's good! That's okay! We're out here building!
KS
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