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| Kevin Gausman, seen here dealin' |
After Monday's tremendous late-inning comeback (Vladdy's throw to third in the tenth: best Vladdy throw ever?), Tuesday's late-inning-comeback-later-thwarted (alas, Jeff Hoffman), and Wednesday afternoon's two-hit, one-walk, Kevin Gausman complete-game shutout (oh boy!), the Houston Astros, probable AL West winners, are behind us. Good! They're pesky! The Yankees' middling performance at home against the Detroit Tigers this week (they dropped two laughers before laughing back just this one time right at the end) has the Blue Jays again leading by three games (functionally four, as the tiebreaker remains deliciously ours), thus assuring us at least one more weekend atop the AL East. The Orioles, who are in town this weekend, are very much at the bottom of that same division, but they've also won eight of their last ten, and have played the Blue Jays reasonably tough(ly) in recent years, so I take little for granted, other than that I will have a nice time watching baseball, or at the very least having it on in the background whilst I pursue complementary pursuits. The Yankees and Red Sox play this weekend—each other, I mean—which means each Blue Jays in the coming days will expand our lead against one or the other. A cheering thought! We're deep enough into all of this that, if the Blue Jays can wrap their final sixteen games at a perfectly .500 eight-and-eight, the Yankees would have to end their season on a twelve-and-four tear, or the Red Sox at twelve-and-three (those tiebreakers are huge). Eighty-four wins is really a very fine place to be with two-weeks-and-a-bit left in the season, and it would be a real shame to make anything less than the most of it, I feel.
KS
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