Jays Get Walkoff Win!
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Phillies 2 Jays 3
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Man, baseball is great.
In the top of the ninth, Louis Varland gave up his first run since Jesús (Sánchez) was a boy (yes, I’m going to hell). Well, since April 25th. Varland walked Bryce Harper to lead off the inning. Then got Brandon Marsh to strike out. Alec Bohm ground out, moving Harper to second and Bryson Slott doubled. A ground out (great play by Charles McAdoo at first base) ends the inning, but it seemed too late.
In the bottom of the inning:
Sánchez singled to start the inning (his homer was the Jays only run of the first eight innings). Myles Straw came in to pinch run (good move John). Yohendrick Piñango singled on a hit and run (our hardest hit ball of the game 103.9 MPH). I really don’t like the hit and run, but it looks so good when it works (it might have been a straight steal, and a hit by Lips). Runners on the corners. Daulton Varsho pinch ran for Lips. Varsho stole second. Pretty brave of the Jays. A wild pitch scored Straw.
And then Brandon Valenzuela played hero again, lining one over the drawn in infield. That was Jhoan Duran’s first blown save of the season. His ERA jumped all the way to 2.00 from 1.25.
Dylan Cease was amazing in his first start back after being on the IL. He went 6 innings, allowing just 3 hits, 1 earned (he gave up a pair of doubles in the first inning), a walk with 11 strikeouts. Sportsnet tells us he set a new Jays record with 29 whiffs. He was amazing.
Jeff Hoffman allowed a hit in the seventh, with two strikeouts. Before Bryson Stott’s single, he popped one up to near the Phillies dugout, Valenzuela and McAdoo both were close but it seemed neither called it and Brandon made a less second lunge towards it but missed. Plays like that really need to be made. Then, the ‘hit’ was a ground ball to short (not an easy play) but Andrés Giménez seemed to be a little slow in throwing it, and Stott was barely safe. Called out on the Phillies’ Challenge,
Mason Fluharty had a very quick eighth. Two lineouts and a strikeout.
The Phillies Zack Wheeler also had a terrific start. 6 innings, 6 hits, 1 earned, no walks and 5 strikeouts. Sánchez’s solo homer (he had a game) was the run against.
We had nine hits. Sánchez had 3, single, double, homer. Piñango 2. Ernie Clement, Giménez (with a hit by pitch) and McAdoo had 0 fors.
Jays of the Day: Sánchez (0.35 WPA), Piñango (0.27), Cease (0.19), Fluharty (0.11) and Hoffman (0.09). It also has Straw at 0.28 (for running the bases???) which I’m thinking is a typo of some sort.
The Other Award: Varland (-0.30 for the run in the ninth, the lead off walk was costly), Clement (-0.13) and McAdoo (-0.10). It has Valenzuela at a -0.13 but he had the game winning hit, so I think that must be an error.
Tomorrow we have game 3 of this series. Jesús Luzardo (4-4, 4.56) vs. Max Scherzer (1-3, 9.64) back from the IL.
I really enjoyed the GameThread again tonight. I will say that, you can call a player’s performance lousy, but if you (over and over) insult a player in a way that gets your comment deleted, don’t be surprised when the system bans you. A player’s play can be bad, but don’t make your complaints about him personal. If you do, I won’t miss you.