2023 Game Twenty-Four: Blue Jays 7, White Sox 0

 

I think his glasses (not pictured) are cool looking

How exceedingly interesting that, mere days ago, we noted that "to be fair" to Danny Jansen, "he is a guy who is streaky, and has stretches where he just rips everything to the pull-side for like weeks." How. Very. Interesting. Two home runs! Hit very much to the pull-side! Though it is widely accepted that the best hitters hit the ball to all fields—and as a team, the Blue Jays are nearly the best in the league in this respect, led by Chapman, Bichette, and Vladdy (numbers one, two, and four in AL Batting Average at the time of this writing) as well as Alejandro—Jansen wasn't doing himself any favours with that approach: it is as though his attempts to hit like a great hitter were getting in the way of his ability to hit like a good hitter, which for him means just getting out in front and see if you can't keep it fair. This ruled, and yet what ruled even more is that José Berrios threw seven innings of four-hit shutout baseball (the recently recalled Nate Pearson and Anthony Bass took it the rest of the way). If Berrios is going to be a solid, middle-of-the-rotation arm (and he has looked better than that of late), the Blue Jays—who are going to win a lot of games—are going to win a lot of games. 

KS