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| Daulton Varsho, just as merry as you please! |
In the end—this is to say, after Danny Jansen's two-run homer tied the game in the ninth, Daulton Varsho's scurrying scurry home on a surprising (even to him!) Nathan Lukes double (George Springer is on paternity leave [congratulations!]) brought the Blue jays first lead of hte game in the tenth, and Jordan Romano's high-wire act closed it out in the bottom half—this felt like the best possible way to head into the All-Star break. At the end of the eighth, though, I was pretty miserable! I felt like we were really blowing it! Everything in baseball happens to so slowly and then it happens all at once, though (as has been observed).
So where does this leave us, then, at the break? Honestly in a pretty good spot, all things considered: the Blue Jays are tied with the Astros for the second wild card spot, five games behind the Orioles for WC1, but only seven (that's really not that many more!) behind the AL East-leading Rays, who have of late struggled for the first time all season (I don't feel bad about it). It would certainly take quite a run to pass either Baltimore or Tampa, but neither seems nearly the obstacle they did a month ago, and the teams lurking just outside the playoff seedings—the Aaron Judgeless Yankees; the Red Sox, who play mediocre baseball against seemingly everyone but the Blue Jays—do not seem especially menacing right now? Ah, I see that the Red Sox have in fact won their last five, which is no mean feat, so maybe I should feel at least a little menaced. But I honestly don't! Ninety-one games into the season, I still feel like the Blue Jays should probably have about ninety wins at the end of it all, and that should probably get them in? To the playoffs I don't really enjoy watching? Fingers crossed!
KS
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