Blue Jays 14, Mets 5: An Abundance of Dingerz

Yan Gomes and Rajai Davis: sluggers of the highest calibre apparently

For a minute there in the first, it looked like Jon Niese was going to work his way out of a pretty sticky situation but then lol nope as J. P. Arencibia ripped one down the line, just fair, for a three-run dinger of the "out of a here in a hurry" variety which I trust you will agree is an awesome kind of them. He added another in the third, and Rajai Davis, of all people, had a pair of two-run shots, and young utility dude Yan Gomes hit the first of his career. Gomes has this awesome stance, front foot slightly open, bat held up high and hell of erect, and he just slashes it through the strike zone man he just slashes it. He looks like a guy who is maybe going to strike out a ton but really lace it every now and then, which, I mean, fine, as it looks super cool and what do I care other than that from a young utility guy with a sick catcher's arm that he deployed a couple of times from third last night. 


I should add that Ricky Romero was a boss, allowing but a run through six. The bullpen was a little shitty after that, but I am not going to mind that right now. 


KS

Blue Jays 4, Yankees 1: Brooms.

not this time jeter

Young Drew Hutchinson with six solid innings! Two-run dingers from both J. Bautista and J. P. Arencibia! Two hits from debuting utility dude Yan Gomes, first Brazilian-born major leaguer! A (two game, but still) sweep of the Yankees! And yet all of this pales in comparison to the big news of the day: after two years of being miserably awful after having been genuinely excellent for a like a second, Adam Lind has been demoted to Triple A Las Vegas. Can you believe he even had an option left? If he didn't, it would have been pretty interesting to see if anyone would have claimed Lind and the ten million dollars owed him, but I guess that will have to wait for next time, or whatever; the important thing here is that dude is gone. Maybe it will be like when E5 got demoted and came back a little farther along his strange path to awesomeness, but more likely he will hit like hell down there, come back up and do nothing, and then be gone for good. So it goes. 


KS