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| everybody's favourite guy Tony Kemp |
I may very well have expressed this exact sentiment before, but the fact that Jordan Romano has been about as good as any closer in either league for kind of a while now does little to mitigate the drag of ninth-inning loss (I mean I suppose they are pretty much all ninth-inning losses, aren't they?); in fact, it may actually heighten the drag slightly? I think it's fair to say that the legitimately tragic Oakland Athletics needed it more, coming in on an eight-game losing streak in a truly doomed season, but even so it would have been neat for Vladdy's first home-ballpark home run of the season (on June 23rd! that's amazing!) to have come in a win. Chris Bassitt wasn't at his best—and though I did not see this part of the game, I have seen it said that he didn't seem thrilled at getting pulled?—but still this one remained totally winnable right up until it was lost. All of the teams most relevant to the Blue Jays right now (the Yankees, Angels, and Astros) all lost, so a real missed opportunity here. Ah well!
KS
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