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When Brandon Belt flied out to leave the bases loaded in the top of the sixth in a then-scoreless game in which Alek Manoah had pitched (and continued to! through seven!) like the Alek Manaoh of old (he is twenty-five), this one honestly felt a little doomed, and so Anthony Volpe's two-run homer in the eighth off of my guy Yimi came as no great surprise. What did surprise me, quite thoroughly, was Danny Jansen's pinch-hit, two-run homer in the top of the ninth to pull the Blue Jays even, as Jansen has really struggled at the plate so far this season (though, to be fair, he is a guy who is streaky, and has stretches where he just rips everything to the pull-side for like weeks). But the Yankees got to Jordan Romano, and LeMahieu singled through the five-man infield (Whit Merrifield, who had been playing left field, was positioned right up the middle, but the ball went through the left side), and so a walk-off loss to the Yankees ended an otherwise lovely Saturday afternoon. I hope the boys were able to shake it off as quickly as I did, though. I hope they found themselves able to enjoy their Saturday night in New York City.
KS
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