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| it was such a cold and rainy night that there are almost no photos from it! for serious! |
I feel like so much has happened since last we spoke: everything's settled now! The Blue Jays will host! The Mariners! Major League Baseball has quite cleverly orchestrated things just so as to guarantee 1977 Expansion representation in the ALDS and I personally could not be more pleased about it. This series should be a lot of fun unless it is a source of upset and misery! Could go either way! And what of the win with which the Blue Jays sealed their part of this deal? It didn't look like it was any fun at all to play, what with the persistent rain amid temperatures that led Cedric Mullins to wear something just short of a ski-mask under his batting helmet (and indeed his hat). José Berríos turned in a very fine start, aided pretty hard by a nice Teoscar Hernandez grab in the right field corner that would otherwise have been several runs for sure. At the plate, we had Vladdy, of course, ripping his thirty-second home of the season (I think?) over the newly-Vladdy-resistant left field wall, and Whitt Merrifield just flying around causing all kinds of chaos: bunt single that puts him on second with an errant throw, a dash to third on a ball hit to short, and a scooting home on a ball that couldn't have been ten feet from the catcher. Lots to like! And just as the Blue Jays loaded the bases in the top of eighth, it was deemed enough: rain delay, thirty minute wait, okay everybody go home. And then we clinched! With the Mariners loss to Detroit, so it wasn't a wild on-field sort of thing. But the remaining doubleheader to be played Thursday will be no less gloriously meaningless because of that. Yusei Kikuchi, eighteen innings? Maybe it's what he needs to get sorted out! I kid but I do hope he pitches at least a little. I continue to find him deeply sympathetic.
KS
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