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| it is one thing for Daz Cameron to be Mike Cameron's son (I can accept that), but for him to be turning thirty soon strikes me as entirely unreasonable |
It was slugging Yankees' first baseman Ben Rice's true whiff of an error that allowed the Blue Jays back into the game in the bottom of the ninth; it was slugging Yankees' first baseman Ben Rice's no-doubter of a two-run homer in the tenth that was, in the end, the difference. So it goes! No sweep, then, but another strong outing from Dylan Cease, who pitched into the seventh, touched for just two runs (on two hits and three walks) whilst striking out a further ten, making him the AL's first pitcher to get to 200Ks on the year, and the seventh Blue Jay ever so to do (Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay, A.J. Burnett, Brendan Morrow, Robbie Ray, and Kevin Gausman are the others, if I'm remembering Dan Shulman's note from yesterday's broadcast correctly [and I bet I am, as it was a perfect collection of guys you would expect plus some top-notch sleepers]). A series win, then, to go with the previous series win over the Red Sox, bringing our record on this Thirteen Games of Doom stretch to five wins and two losses as we pass the halfway mark of it, which, plainly, is tremendous, exceeding all expectations. At this point, any result other than losing the next six straight (not that I put anything past anyone!) would set us up perfectly finely for a thirty-one game sprint to the finish with six AL teams all muddled up together separated by just a game and a half (and why not throw the Mariners in there, too, just one game further behind?) for that final spot (and the Red Sox would not have to slip up by much to make it a half-the-league dash for the final two spots, really). This really could get nuts! Or somebody could get even moderately hot and thus totally run away with it. My position is: why not us? A little?
KS
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