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| safe at home, to the delight of (nearly) all |
Well, we sure needed that one! More specifically, we sure needed that seventh inning: when the returning Ross Stripling's perfect game ended after six-and-a-third on a single by the ever-nifty Cedric Mullins, things were actually looking a little ticklish all of a sudden, but a strong bare-handed play by Bo Bichette and an utterly nails performance from Yimi Garcia (who is nails) kept things scoreless headed into the home half (of the inning [of the baseball game {go Jays}]). The six-run, bat-around inning that followed contained many delights, as such innings always do, but perhaps chief among them was the 1000th hit (and first pinch hit) of George Springer's career, and, just a bit later, his slide home on a close play to score just behind Bo on a Santiago Espinal double. (Alejandro Kirk's two-RBI double into the corner did a lot of good, too, and I don't want us to overlook that.) Zach Pop's eighth wasn't great, but David Phelps' ninth was, so who could be bothered? Certainly not me, an enthusiastic supporter of a baseball team that did not fall out of a playoff position yesterday! And so on to Yankee Stadium for four games against a team that has struggled at least as mightily (perhaps even mightilier) than the Blue Jays in recent weeks, although they did beat the Rays last night on a walk-off grand slam in extra innings. So I guess we'll just see.
KS
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