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| not pictured (and yet crucial): Infield-hit Whit |
Between Vladdy's third home run in as many days to put the Blue Jays on the board in the seventh, and Vladdy's homeward scurry on Whit Merrifield's swinging bunt of an infield single to win it the thirteenth (the thirteenth!), an awful lot happened, some of it baffling, much of it thrilling. The emotional highpoints, from the perspective of a Blue Jays partisan, were surely Daulton Varsho's ninth-inning triple lined directly at and low-key (yet disastrously) misplayed by promising Red Sox centre-fielder Ceddanne Rafaela, scoring Cavan Biggio to send the game into extra innings; and, once there, Jordan Romano's pair of hitless innings (the only runner to reach was the intentionally-walked Rafael Devers, and honestly they should probably just do that four times a game [emotionally]). Other things ruled as well! And yet these happenings stood out amidst the ruling. What's more, everybody else keeps losing! Seattle, Texas, Houston—you name it! It's probably more important that Houston lose than anybody else, actually, as that is the lone relevant team the Blue Jays actually hold a tiebreaker over. If the Blue Jays finish with the same record as the Astros, they are quite simply in, regardless of what happens with the Mariners and/or Rangers. But nobody is talking about this! At least not on the broadcasts! Or maybe they are but I missed it! This game was over four hours long and there were for sure parts I did not see!
KS
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