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A sheer delight: Ross Stripling and a string of low-leverage relievers (not you, Adam Cimber) including ninth-inning-man Yusei Kikuchi held the ever-(increasingly?)-pesky Rays to just one run on their seven hits. Those were the sorts of relievers called into service on this day because of the extent to which the Blue Jays utterly mashed off the truly excellent Shane McClanahan: Alejandro Kirk's home run went a mile, George Springer's two probably added up to a whole lot of feet also (one was neatly oppo, I should note), and Téo's travelled a fairly absurd four-hundred-sixty-four to left. Oh. Man. The Mariners lost in ridiculous fashion, blowing something like a 10-2 lead giving up an eleven-run inning to the Royals, whilst the Orioles dropped one in extras to the Astros (no shame in that obviously). This split in Tampa was just huge, dropping the Blue Jays magic number to I believe now four, and maintaining a two-game lead for the first wild card spot, and thus a series at home (against either Tampa or Seattle, so it's not all fun and games [though there will be games {which could be fun}]). Three games against the Yankees, who are good again (damn it), will test that lead, but then it's the Red Sox, who are deeply out of it, and finally the Orioles who might very well be out of it by then to? Boy, you would really, really like to think so, wouldn't you?
KS
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