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It sure is great that Kevin Gausman settled right in after those two early runs, setting the table, as it did, for a rousing extra-innings walk-off win off the bat of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.! People love stuff like that! Yankees manager Aaron Boone has been at least a little maligned for his decision to pitch to Vladdy, rather than put him on with a base open, but honestly, Alejandro Kirk is the tougher out, and has been all season: higher OBP, higher wRC+, rarely strikes out, and somehow has like twenty infield hits (I know how: Kirk is slow enough that everybody understandably plays him plenty deep, but he makes a tonne of contact and hustles hard out of the box so there you have it, twenty infield hits). Yankees fans "of the internet" were feeling pretty salty about John Schneider's correct decision to walk Aaron Judge in the tenth to load the bases, but I would argue that if you don't want the Blue Jays to walk the best hitter in either league since Barry Bonds, you shouldn't have a .220 hitter (such as for instance Anthony Rizzo) batting behind him for Tim Mayza to get out no problem? And it isn't as though Yimi Garcia didn't go right after Judge and strike him out with the game on the line in the eighth; it isn't like that at all. And so the dream of a Toronto Blue Jays AL East championship realized by the Yankees losing all of their remaining games whilst the Blue Jays win all of theirs lives to die another day!
KS
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