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| without this little looky-lean from Jano I am not sure this ball gets through |
After two days of unmatched crispness, this game was just full-on rumpled, with fielding errors, baserunning miscues, and just a whole different feel than anything that had preceded it in the series. And yet, after Yusei Kikuchi's shaky start (five runs, four of them earned, in four innings; seven strikeouts and no walks, but three home runs), the "low-leverage" elements of the bullpen (Bass, Jackson, Richards, and Pearson) held a strong team scoreless in the five innings that fell to them. With the bases loaded, winning run on second, two away in the bottom of the ninth, Danny Jansen is probably not be the Blue Jay you would most like to see at the dish given his slow start to the season, but he got the job done (good for him!), guiding a ball through the left side, not so slow a roller that it could be scooped up by the shortstop, but just slow enough a roller that the left-fielder didn't have much of a play as the speedier-than-you'd-think Matt Chapman came sliding home for the win. What a game! What a series! The Yankees are in next and I feel pretty good about it except for how Alek Manoah is starting the first game! What a miserable time he must be having so far this year. And yet Yusei Kikuchi remains undefeated? Baseball's funny.
KS
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