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Amidst an afternoon of fairly pleasant yardwork ("working yard? or yardly working?," one might well josh), among the several balados I enjoyed was an ancillary Blue Jays one in which able host Blake Murphy described the Blue Jays' relationship to the .500 mark this season as "asymptotic," which delighted me considerably. Would you believe that, before just now, the last time we were at .500 was May 29th, and before that it was April 4th? April 4th! We have really not been an especially good baseball team so far, haha! Except that now of, of course, we are, following Monday night's 4-1 win over the comparably (though not identically) underperforming Houston Astros. We've sorted it all out, probably! At the outset, Dylan Cease looked like he may have been in for a bit of a rough night, and not just because the first pitch he threw was lined to left for a base hit by Jeremy Peña (who would later leave the game after hurting himself mid-at-bat), but also on account of how the Astros loaded the bases in the first with just one out and a run already in. However! A slickly-turned double play (Giménez to Ernie Clement to Vladdy [who had two hits and an RBI, I might add [go Vladdy, I would additionally add]) got us out of trouble, and from there Cease settled in considerably, and allowed just the one other run in his five-and-two-thirds. The Blue Jays' runs came on a Kazuma Okamoto solo homer (he is cooking!) and three sacrifice flies, which is really a lot of those, but we had loads of runners on all night, somewhat surprisingly (in that Hunter Brown is a very good starting pitcher, though he was chased after just three innings). Fisher, Rogers, and Varland took it the rest of the way, aided in no small measure by a couple more sweet, sweet double plays (the really are the best). Objectively, this game was probably just a perfectly ordinary Monday-night win at home, but perfectly ordinary Monday-night wins at home are lovely; I can't imagine I will ever weary of them.
KS
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