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Given recent events, I would not say that I had perfect faith that the Blue Jays one-run lead—Santiago Espinal's seventh-inning squeaker through the left side having built upon the earlier boppings of both Brandon Belt and Vladdy—would necessarily hold up; I did not believe it with my whole entire being. And yet! After an uncharacteristically rough couple of days, the bullpen returned to being kind of great, and ably closed out what I think we would probably all agree to have been a pretty encouraging start from Alek Manoah (better than the last one, not as good as the first one?). And so the Blue Jays salvage a win to wrap this super-tense series of one-run games that felt every bit like playoff baseball, which is to say that I sorted of hated every inning of it? And yet could not look away? Even a little?
Although it is obviously not ideal to have dropped the first two series coming out of the All-Star break, I really feel very good about the Blue Jays' 55-45 record through the first one hundred games of the season (only sixty-two to go!). This is the same record through one hundred that they managed last year, and, to my surprise, there have only been six seasons where the Blue Jays have fared better (the 2016 and 1993 teams won 56; 1991 won 57; 1992 won 59; and perhaps unsurprisingly the 1985 Blue Jays are at the top of list with 63 [which is so many]). We currently sit in a playoff spot, and, barring something weird happening out west, will hold one the rest of the way should we be able to play slightly better than both the Yankees and Red Sox, which, though not a sure thing, certainly seems like a possible thing. I'm all for it! Let's really try!
KS
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