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With his fist-pumping sac fly in the fifth, the sixth-inning pickoff play where he snuck in behind the runner just in time for Danny Jansen's slick throw, and the eighth-inning double wherein he started his slide what felt like several body-lengths too early, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. seems to have maybe had his most fun day ever? Danny Jansen—he of the slick throw in the sixth—cleared the bases with a double in the eighth (that same eighth of Vladdy's truly baffling and wonderful slide) to put this one away, and really, he's been hitting so well that it hasn't been that big a deal that Alejandro Kirk has struggled (he'll come around, maybe?). Kikuchi pitched a good one, just as Berrios and Bassitt before him this series, and there you have it: a three-game sweep against a good team to start the second half as well as you could hope. The Blue Jays have closed the gap on both the Orioles atop the Wild Card standings and the Rays atop the actual AL East to such an extent that all things feel possible, if not quite likely. This is a good place to be.
KS
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