Blue Jays 5, Red Sox 1: It is All Fun And Games Until E5 Gets Plunked on the Hands

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 5

I should have been free to enjoy Daniel Bard's historically bad six-walk, two-hit-batsmen-in-less-than-two-innings outing -- the first since 1918! -- but I was not, exactly, because E5, who is a motherfucking monsters this year, got hit on the hands, which is the worst. Apparently he is making the trip to Chicago, though, and it is just all sore, rather than all injured, so there you go. Did you know that young Drew Hutchinson put in a fine seven-inning outing? And that, holy cow, Jose Bautista is up to fourteen dingers at this point despite still not really being himself? Mostly though I am glad that the sweep was averted because sweeps suck one's life force, a little.


KS

Blue Jays 6, Orioles 2: The Hope Here is that Maybe the Orioles are Still Just the Orioles

Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista reject your suggestion that this looks goofy

I know they're in first place almost fifty games into the season, but I have not been shook for even a second by the Orioles so far this year. I have seen very little evidence to suggest that they are even going to be all that OK by the end of the year, let alone stick around at the top of the AL East. I am taking last night's 6-2 Blue Jays win as confirmation that I am right about this and probably also about everything else ever, too. Drew Hutchinson put in a heck of an effort of seven solid, scoreless innings, including one weird one where he allowed three walks and a hit, but no runs (good job picking a dude of second, Jeff Mathis!). Kelly Johnson returned from a hamstring injury, and went 3-4 with a double and a home run, but is not all the way better, and Yunel Escobar is having groin issues, so all of that is a drag, but there are options. There are things. Also, look at this rad .gif I have lifted from DJF that shows a dude really minding that he missed catching E5's sixteenth yeah sixteenth dinger of the year in circumstances that make the miss completely inexcusable (by which I mean he was wearing a glove):

That is a play that has to be made.


KS