Middling Fun in Baltimore

 

still the perfect ballpark probably

Friday night, I felt fairly aggrieved when I clicked on Rogers Sportsnet and found no Blue Jays game, thinking Apple TV+ must have stolen away another one (for they are villains), but it turns out it was god himself who denied us Blue Jays baseball on this night by making it rainy. Saturday was not much better (other than that it was sunny), in that the Blue Jays hit into five double-plays—five! that's so many! the AL record is six!—though in fairness, one was a strange situation where Vladdy was said to have left first base early on a very heads-up tag-up play, when in fact he did not leave early at all (as revealed through Jomboy analysis), but nobody challenged (aside from Vladdy, in his heart, and also somewhat verbally). However! Sunday ruled! In that the Blue Jays kept kind of blowing it but clawing their way back in, helped by some bottom-of-the-order scrappiness plus also a key hit by Bo Bichette, who is the literal top of the order, so that part's different. But it was all very good. I will take the split. These young Orioles no longer seem quite the menace they once did, but they've for sure got some guys who are going to be a problem for us for like a decade.

KS