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| Vladimir Guerrero attempts to embody the the joy we all feel whenever we remember what it was like to watch Vladimir Guerrero play baseball, but comes up just short |
Oh, that Vlad & Dad Bobblehead Day should come to this: an effectively endless doubleheader thrashing at the hands of the Rays, in which the finest Blue Jays performance of either game came, probably, from journeyman Casey Lawrence, whose five-and-two-thirds innings of six-run relief after Kevin Gausman went down on an exquisitely painful comebacker to the shin in the second salvaged the day slightly for a bullpen that has struggled of late and which is probably not super thrilled about eighteen games in seventeen days. It was noted that this was only the fifth doubleheader played in Toronto since the SkyDome opened in 1989 (in a sense, it is kind of surprising there have actually been that many?), and it was pleasant to have that much Blue Jays baseball unfolding in the background of a lovely in-and-out summer Saturday, but on the whole I think I could have done without the whole thing, maybe? That makes it sound like I minded this much more than I did, but just objectively, this was not super! And yet the deep strangeness of a five-game series (I honestly don't remember one ever before [but have not checked]) means that all was by no means lost on Saturday, except for "all of the games the Blue Jays played on Saturday," which were of course extremely lost.
KS
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