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| help him before he pitches again |
Here's a way we haven't lost in a while: blowing a four-run lead! Not a great result, but there was novelty to it, in that sense. Nate Pearson made a fine hash of the up-and-down Kevin Gausman's admirable start, and another impeccable inning from Yimi, and the objective fact of Pearson's 6.00 ERA now fully supports my subjective impression that you cannot run this guy out there in situations that matter at all, and my hope is they use him differently going forward, maybe? That aside, it was a great relief (unlike Nate Pearson! he's not great at relief!) to see Davis Schneider in the leadoff spot (Springer batting sixth), and Vladdy's three-for-four deepens the sense that he might have figured things out? A little? The loss drops the Blue Jays to six games below .500 for the first time since the end of the 2019 season, which is dark, but serves as a reminder of just how much fun it has been to watch the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 teams. It felt this way at the time, but I feel it more and more as time passes: 2021 really was the year . . .
KS
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