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Kevin Gausman, who allowed three runs in the first inning, was certainly not at his best Saturday, but if Raimel Tapia is going to hit monstrous three-run bombs, and Bo Bichette is going to hit three of the Blue Jays seven doubles, then that's fine! Danny Jansen homered also, let us note. Just a great day for the bats: every starter had at least one hit en route to the Blue Jays first double-digit score since the end of July (that's surprising!), so Gausman's iffy-start and Zach Pop's indifferent relief totally get a pass, no problem whatsoever. To return for a moment to Bo Bichette's three doubles, if I may, which is really a lot of doubles: Bo is now the first MLB player with thirteen extra-base hits over a nine-game span since Bo himself did it in 2019 (when he would have been approximately fourteen years old), and ties himself (obviously), Carlos Delgado (1999), and Joe Carter (1990) as the only Blue Jays to have ever hit that many over so few, because really, that is an awful lot of them to hit. Hey great job Bo! And with that, and indeed all of this, the Blue Jays are now closer to the division lead (five back) than they are to being in any kind of Baltimore-trouble, and have tucked, if only temporarily, right into the second wild card spot, a half-game ahead of Seattle, a half-game behind Tampa Bay. I do not anticipate this truly incredible road trip to end with anything but a thud tomorrow, given its bullpen-day nature, but I suppose stranger things have happened? You never know? It went okay in Pittsburgh last week? Maybe Trevor Richards has it all figured out now? And the boys? Will perhaps choose boppin'?
KS
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