Blue Jays 9, Royals 4: Two Home Runs from Colby Rasmus, of All People

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This was a good one, with some back-and-forthery and a bunch of home runs and the somewhat surprising Major League debut of Drew Hutchison, who wasn't terrific or anything but left in the sixth inning with the lead and ended up the pitcher of record in the win, so good for him. What would be really cool right now though is if Jose Bautista would stop trying to pull literally every pitch for a minute: he gets into these runs where that's all he does, and he jerks everything foul, and it sucks. But he'll figure it out. I'm not actually worried. It's weird that the guy who is the best hitter in the AL over the last couple years is a dude with constant mechanical issues he totally needs to stay on top of, and has these pretty lengthy stretches where his timing is all messed up and you can totally see it. Like, I'm not being a dick here; Bautista talks about it himself. He manages to be the raddest guy and also in some ways a pretty flawed hitter. He is fantastically compelling!


KS