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| it's not that he wasn't trying |
Alek Manoah didn't have it at all, and then he kind of did, and then he pretty much did, and then, ultimately, did not. In the end, it was an ugly line: seven runs on nine hits and four walks over four and two-thirds innings. Yikes! And yet not the worst line we saw on Sunday: consider the Reds' Luis Cessa, who allowed nine runs in the first to the Phillies, and they left him in until it read fourteen runs on eleven hits and three walks in three innings. I mean, my god. Anyway, with the great Shane McClanahan on the hill for the Rays, Manoah needed to be nearly perfect for the Blue Jays to have a chance, and he was far from that yesterday. Velocity looked good though! Maybe he's turning the corner! Or about to! This trip through the rotation, everybody except Manoah pitched really well, which is certainly not what we would have expected. But for the second straight series in this lovely opening homestand I find myself saying "well, the sweep would have been nice, but . . .," which is a sign that things are really going very well on the whole, and so why not head off to Houston with a spring in our step? The Astros have yet to really look like the Astros this year, so maybe we can steal a series!
KS
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