Monday, August 22, 2022

2022 Game One-Hundred-Eighteen: Blue Jays 4, Yankees 0

 

JBJ is fitting right in

Juggernaut status: extremely confirmed is how I would characterize the lessons learned from Friday's 4-0 win over the Yankees, a game marred only by its broadcast on Apple TV+ that thus deprived us of the dulcet tones of Dan Shulman and also the beloved cartoon pelican ones (tones, I mean) of Buck Martinez. But those failings aside, what a performance: seven innings of no-run, four-hit/one-walk baseball from Kevin Gausman, clean innings of relief for both Yimi and Romano, Téo's two-run shot, Alejandro Kirk's three-for-four . . . I don't want to overstate this but it seems an absolute unflinching certainty that the Blue Jays will chase down the Yankees for the AL East lead and probably also secure the top seed overall by passing Houston as well. At this point it is just really hard to see things playing out any other way. 

KS  

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