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| "Does Bo Bichette know he's famous?" a child once asked (it seems likely that he does) |
It seems funny to say about a game in which José Berríos allowed but a lone run in five nice innings against a great lineup, and in which George Springer opened the game with a home run (a true Springer Dinger) and Bo Bichette went five-for-five (two doubles!), but it kind of felt like the thirteen-and-oh Tampa Bay Rays gave this one away, a little? With some uncharacteristically poor pitching and defense, at times? That's not really what we have come to expect from them, these ever-pesky Rays. But it happens to everybody, I suppose, even the peskimost among us. It is also perhaps funny that, of all the great Blue Jays things to have happened in this great Blue Jays game against a great team, the moment that sticks out to me the most was that after Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz had grounded out sharply (right back to José Berríos, who was lightly contused), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. offered him the ball, because, as a fellow first baseman, he would need one to warm up the infielders the next half inning. It's one of those little things, like hearing a catcher yell "coming down" before throwing to second at the end of the warmup, that takes me back to the dusty diamonds of my youth in a way that rules.
KS
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