Monday, June 5, 2023

2023 Game Fifty-Six: Brewers 4, Blue Jays 2

 

it's just not working out

Everything continues to be miserable for Alek Manoah, who is finding new ways to have bad starts: this time, it's not like he got shelled or anything—we've all seen much worse than two runs on three hits and three walks in four innings—but it was all just taking him so many pitches that John Schneider felt he couldn't really run him back out there for the fifth. Manoah was at eighty-nine pitches, which, had he been rolling, wouldn't worry you, of course, and from Manoah's perspective, I bet he felt like he was just battling through it, you know? He's probably thinking like sure it's been two runs through four yeah but I can hold the line and get us through six but given the ways things have been falling apart (most, if not all of the ways), what can you do? It all continues to feel like a shame. The Blue Jays hit, but not in a timely fashion, and their seven hits were only could for two runs. This one felt winnable! And yet was lost.

KS

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