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We settled in with our Lebanese-food lunch a few moments too late to fully appreciate the all-time great first inning plate appearance from Javy Baez (the broadcast caught us up on it later), but in plenty of time to appreciate the rest of José Berríos' two-hour, nineteen-minute gem. It was a honey! It was both a gem and a honey! A wonderful finish to a wonderful July for Berríos, in fact; the long shadow cast by his poorest outings of the season has obscured how rad(ly) he has pitched for kind of a while now, and the extent to which Manoah, Gausman, and Berríos is a truly first-rate three-man rotation to run out there for an opening-round playoff series (should we be spared). Matt Chapman homered again, Vladdy and Bo each doubled (in that order, which felt weird), and Mayza and Romano took the last two innings despite Berríos only throwing eighty pitches through seven (I get it, though, and I am not a "complete game piner" like so many you encounter these days ["neat when they happen but I don't especially care," is my position]). With only sixty games left to play, somehow, and the Blue Jays now holding the third-best record in the AL, I feel pretty good about everything heading into Tuesday's trade deadline. Ohtani? Soto? Something sensible? Who can say?Come what may, I will again draw comfort from that knowledge that whatever transactions the Blue Jays do or do not make, they will on some level, however minutely, result at least in part from the input of the poet Carson Cistulli. In a very real sense, that is enough for me.
KS
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