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| we are as back as Vladdy's position relative to Davis Schneider in this photo (in that he is in back of him) |
A two-run seventh to tie! An eighth-inning Davis Schneider homewards scamper (easily the best kind of baseball scamper) off an errant throw during an Andrés Giménez stolen base to take the lead! Jeff Hoffman locking up Shohei Ohtani to catch him looking in the ninth with 97MPH exceedingly down the middle (there is a vulgar phrase for this occurrence that I enjoy but I will not burden you with my own internal squalor)! All this, along with Dylan Cease's five innings of thrown smoke, served as a balm for our recently-troubled souls (troubled on account of having watched several baseball games we enjoyed less than the amount we usually prefer to enjoy them). And so at last ends our weekus horribilis. It is worth noting, I think, that after this stretch in which things went just awfully for the Blue Jays, whilst going pretty much ideally for the New York Yankees, the actual state of play in the AL East is that we are three-and-half back with one-fifty left to play. It's still early enough that we have quirks on the order of "there are more teams with winning records in the NL Central than in the entire American League," fun and silly little things like that. We're still only just starting to have baseball. It takes a while to ramp up. The Twins are in next, and they've been pretty good, and still have the delightful Byron Buxton around, so there's ever reason to expect a pleasant weekend of Blue Jays baseball.
KS
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