Monday, August 29, 2022

2022 Game One-Hundred-Twenty-Four: Angels 12, Blue Jays 0

 

and that is very much a triple for Shohei Ohtani

On a human level, I appreciate that not getting into town until nearly four in the morning makes it tough to work the next day, or oven the next evening, and cannot even mind this seemingly unlikely outcome all that much. And even the magnitude of this loss, the twelve-to-nothingness of it, really doesn't bother me either, as really the Angels might as well have scored a hundred, right? If you don't score any at all, who cares? Of course, one has no desire to see one's bullpen torched to open a homestand, but we were spared that with three innings of Yusei Kikuchi and one of Whit Merrifield (that's surprising!) in relief of Mitch White's troubled five innings. A dud, but arguably a fairly harmless one? On the other hand, the 2021 Toronto Blue Jays finished with ninety-one wins and missed the playoffs by a single game. Who's to say!

KS 

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