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| the sixth inning . . . |
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| . . . but then the eighth! |
On the same day Bo Bichette was named American League Player of the Week, he also chose to hit the seventh-pitch of one-on, two-out at-bat in the bottom of the eighth, with the Blue Jays down by one, just ever-so-slightly over the wall in left-centre, and there you go: the Blue Jays had their first and only lead of the game, which Jordan Romano (with a little help from defensive replacement and Blue Jays legend Jackie Bradley Jr.) locked down in the ninth. A really great game, with a slightly-too-intense playoff feel, and a brisk pace, owing in no small measure to the briskness José Berríos brings always, but especially today. His recent run of really good starts continued, and was perhaps I guess even surpassed, with Monday's two runs (just one earned) in his six-and-a-third. You'll take that every time! This win put the Blue Jays just ahead of the Rays in The Wild Card Ordering, but I have pretty much decided not to attend to that Ordering all that closely anymore until we're down to maybe three or four games left, and just focus on how far ahead of the first-non-playoff-team-Orioles we are (it's six games now, with twenty-two to play, which sounds like plenty?). Otherwise it's . . . it's just too much. Finally, on Bo Bichette's recent greatness, I wanted to note that in the eleven games the Blue Jays have played thus far in September, Bo has collected 24 hits, 21 RBI, 7 home runs, 6 doubles, and scored 15 runs, and apparently since people started keeping track of RBIs in the 1920s, the only other player to reach each of these numbers in an eleven-game stretch was Lou Gherig in 1930. This seems notable! Go ahead, Bo!
KS
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