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This one felt much closer than the final score might suggest, as the Blue Jays scratched out just the one run against reliever-turned-starter Michael King over the course of his seven innings of thirteen-strikeout, no-walk, somewhat upsetting baseball. But Kevin Gausman was great, too, and benefited significantly from home-plate umpire Lance Barrett's preposterously low strike zone. That strike zone paired with Gausman's splitter (among the best pitches in either league) would be one thing, but add in Alejandro Kirk's remarkable ability to frame low strikes, and Aaron Boone stood no real chance of not getting run in the second inning (I mention this because of how it totally happened). But the Yankees bullpen is really not very good, and more or less handed the Blue Jays five runs, whereas the Blue Jays bullpen is simply excellent (the best we've had since the early nineties, I think? I would have to check that statistically, but emotionally there is no question) and allowed just the one (it's okay, Erik Swanson; you've had a tough second half, buddy). And that's five wins in a row! This is all going great! Gerrit Cole pitches tomorrow, though, which is a real problem because he's the obvious AL Cy Young this year to such an extent that it's hard to see who else could even get first-place votes. Yet José Berrios, who we've got due up tomorrow, has an ERA only like 0.6 runs higher, and we don't expect either pitcher to pitch a complete game, so let's say they both go seven: that'd work out to a difference of less than half a run between them tomorrow! And our bullpen is definitely more than half a run better than this slopshow the Yankees are running out there, right? I am not even kidding when I say that I have legitimately convinced myself that not only can we beat Gerrit Cole, but that it won't even necessarily be that hard.
KS
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