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On the subject of Vladimir Guerrero's utter "piss missile" (if you will forgive me that vivid coarseness) of a first-inning home run (which you can see here), the ever-ready Nick Ashbourne notes the following: "Coming into tonight 3,721 home runs had been hit in MLB. Just three of them had a launch angle of 15 or lower like that Vladdy laser. 2 of them were inside-the-park HRs. The other went 358 feet. That one was 398 feet. Truly a 1-of-1 blast." Indeed it was! And we were rolling! With Alek Manoah cruising on the bump, too! Sure, it would have been nice to tack on a couple more with the bases loaded and only one out in the third, and it was kind of drag that Matt Chapman grounded into a double play instead, but the way Manoah is dealing out there, it'll be fine, right; it'll be fine, right? Woe that it was not: Manoah got two outs on the first four pitches of the fifth inning, and then on the next three, gave up two solo home runs. I believe they said he had only allowed two home runs in his previous thirty-three innings, or something like that? A couple runs in the sixth and all was blasted: 4-2 Orioles, and it stayed that way, in no small part because the Blue Jays didn't hit it out of the infield after the third. And yet I maintain that this is not rock bottom; rock bottom would be/will be a little later this afternoon, should the Blue Jays drop the "getaway day" game (with the returning Ross Stripling on the mound) to fall a half-game out of the AL Wild Card playoff picture for the first time in what I believe to be months, though I am sure we will hear the exact date that last occurs when next it occurs, which, once again, could be just like three hours from now. On the other hand, we're only a game-and-a-half out of the top spot! So who can say!
KS
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