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Even though it was the eighth inning, Alek Manoah pleaded most pleadingly with John Schneider to stay in for at least one more batter: "I got this guy," he could be seen to say, and to obviously believe with all sincerity. John Schneider had already signaled for Tim Mayza, though, who struck out a pair to end the inning, which set the stage for Adam Cimber's clean ninth. As pleasing as all of that was, how much more pleasing that that, even, to think that Bo Bichette might be getting legitimately hot: his two-run home run in the ninth inning (to go along with a single and double earlier) in a game the Blue Jays were already winning was a much bigger deal than one might think at first glance, in that it took a 2-0 game to 4-0, and so it meant the truly high-leverage late-inning guys (Yimi, Romano) had another day off, and became options for Saturday's super-looming "bullpen day" in which the rôle of the opener falls to . . . Trevor Richards. I am staunchly pro-opener, though, as you will perhaps recall! In that it manifests the strategies of simulation baseball into the primary world of our experience! Let's go!
KS
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