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Did a Blue Jays starter give up a three-run homer for the third day in a row? Sure did! And did Scherzer get so thoroughly cooked for eight runs that he didn't even make it out of the third? Brother, he barely made it into the third (not actually true, just playing around with the language here). None of that's any good, obviously, but the really striking thing about this one is that the Blue Jays managed only two runs out of twelve hits—twelve! that's so many of them!—which is a wild occurrence. That's a lot of traffic, but with some truly unfortunate sequencing. Ah well! Would you believe that the Twins are the top team in the AL at the moment? If you are wondering how this can be, it is because nobody in the AL has been all that good yet. Over in "The Senior Circuit," as people seem to say less now than they used to (the National League is a senior circuit, one might well reply), the Dodgers have won eleven against just three losses (hey one of those is because of us!), but every team in the American League is all bunched up and middling. And so, despite this super tepid early stretch, the Blue Jays are just two games back of the AL East lead. Maybe even stranger still, they haven't actually even played a game against an AL East opponent yet! That's not about to change any time soon, as we're off to Milwaukee—which cinéma has taught me is Algonquin for "the good land"—where the Brewers, last year's winningest team in either league, are playing miserably and have lost five straight. Baseball stays weird.
KS
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