2023 Games Eighty-Seven and Eighty-Eight: Blue Jays 6, White Sox 2 (F/11), Blue Jays 5, White Sox 4 (let's play two!)

 

it's like anything else: you get low, and you dig

Not a whole lot of 6-2 games go scoreless through ten, I bet! I can't think of any that I've seen, for example, and I have seen a bunch of baseball games; like a bunch. José Berrios was about as good as he gets, and Lance Lynn, who has really had quite a career but who had fallen on Manoah-level hard times so far this season, all of a sudden was amazing again? And when the Blue Jays finally scored, it wasn't like they were pounding the ball off the White Sox relievers: it was ground ball, ground ball, ground ball . . . just pitiless, relentless BABIP stuff. Sounds good to me! The evening game had Kikuchi giving what seems like the median Kikuchi performance (emotionally, perhaps not statistically): four runs over five innings, which is obviously less than stellar, but just enough to keep you in it, so long as "Two Hit" Whit Merrifield's two hits are both home runs, and Bo goes four-for-five like it was normal to keep doing that. We're gaining! Things are looking up! 

KS