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| you'd never guess from crowd behind him but this was a road game |
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| a Vladdy of focus |
Until the Blue Jays blew it open with an utterly glorious six-run eighth inning (Bo double, Gurriel single, Merrifield single, Biggio single, Springer single, Vladdy three-run missile), this was a really good game, indeed a little too good: Manoah took a perfect game into the bottom of the fourth, but ended that inning down a run after absolutely creaming poor José Miranda with a 94MPH fastball to the hand with the bases loaded. Through those first four, the Blue Jays had plenty of base runners, but left them all aboard; Vladdy fared no better in the bottom of the fifth, grounding out with the bases loaded to the end the inning. It felt like it might be that sort of night, but in the sixth, Téo hit another one of those home runs about which he, personally, had no doubt; Bo doubled; Gurriel knocked him in; and then the Twins kicked it around a little for one more run. The sixth-run eighth, which I may have mentioned previously because of how much it ruled, turned this one into something of "a laugher," which would have been too bad for the biggest Minnesota crowd of the year, except that an awful lot of them were Blue Jays fans, so it's probably fine (I'm not too worried about it). Also fine: that Ben Clemens of FanGraphs agrees with my assessment of the Blue Jays trade deadline acquisitions, characterizing the Blue Jays' front office performance on the day as "Quietly Effective," alongside the work of Houston and Atlanta. I would like to thank Ben Clemens for refuting the views of my foes (I have no foes).
KS
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