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Well that went about as well as we could have hoped, didn't it? Although I'm sure that, on an individual level, Alek Manoah would have preferred fewer walks (five is more than enough), and fewer instances of hard contact, had there been no hard contact at all we would have missed out on what turned out to be one of the great catches in the history of the SkyDome: Kevin Kiermaier's home-run-robbing/Bo-Bichette-impressing snag could very well be the best over-the-wall catch we will ever see in this ballpark, and it came in the very first game wherein the walls were of a height over which anyone has any real chance of reaching up (eight feet in dead centre, I believe they said). So that was pretty great! So too the many dingers: Matt Chapman (AL Player of the Week!), Kevin Kiermaier and George Springer back-to-back, Bo Bichette on the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth, Alejandro Kirk with a three-run shot to sit Jordan Romano back down in the pen (this one's yours, Anthony Bass; go get 'em) . . . that's a lot! Add a Daulton Varsho stolen base, and Kirk throwing a dude out at second, and you've got a complete success. The many upgrades and improvements to the ballpark really seemed to be both of those things, and the sellout crowd (including, crucially, both Home Plate Lady and the scorekeeping Geddy Lee) had a tonne to cheer for, including pre-game awards for Vladdy (Gold Glove), Kirk (Silver Slugger), and Romano (Tip O'Neil), and a first pitch by the truly radiant and flourishing Fred McGriff, whose coming induction into the Hall of Fame was here marked. What a night! Everybody loves Fred McGriff; everybody loves dingers; everybody loves Blue Jays baseball.
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