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Yimi Garcia got some important outs for the Blue Jays both Friday night and Saturday afternoon, but found himself badly Hunter Renfroe'd in the tenth Sunday. So it goes! Vladdy knocked in Bo in the bottom half, but things petered out a little after that. A sweep would have been great, obviously, but those are tough to get. This one just felt like a baseball game that we lost; nothing seemed doomed or fated or to auger of horrible things to come. The news that Jordan Romano has been placed on the fifteen-day IL is bad, but the news that the Blue Jays had traded for flamethrowing Cardinals closer Jordan Hicks is quite good! Plus Hyun-Jin Ryu is coming back, and potentially-rad bullpen arm Chad Green should follow soon thereafter, so we are pretty much set for the stretch, probably, right? It would be great to add an outfield bat before the Tuesday trading deadline, but word is there are not that many to be had? Maybe Tommy Pham?
Anyway, on the whole, a pretty good weekend of Blue Jays baseball, aided (abetted?) by several of our rivals playing each other, leading to a solid "let the fools destroy themselves" phenomenon. And so we remain tied with the Astros for the second/third Wild Card spot, four games back of Tampa Bay, two-and-a-half ahead of the Red Sox. Perhaps most interestingly, we begin our four-game series against the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles (they're obviously good but their run differential does not support their win-loss record! maybe they will regress! to the mean! a little!) five-and-a-half games back. A split feels important, I think, and taking three of four would be a like a wildly encouraging outcome at this point. The pitching matches up pretty well!
KS
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