Twins 4 Blue Jays 10
Not a great outing for Max Scherzer. Six innings, four hits, one walk, four earned, with five strikeouts. You do have to admire the efficiency, five base runners and four earned runs. Of course, two home runs helps that out.
He was good through five innings, just the one run, a fourth inning Matt Wallner home run. But then the sixth came along. Max gave up a one-out walk and single, got a ground out. Then Matt Wallner homered again. I was yelling that Max should have come out before
the home run. It looked, to me, like he was tiring. And maybe, it if was a closer game, they would have taken him out.
It was a good day for out bats. We scored:
- Four in the first: George Springer led off with a single. I like him leading off. Nathan Lukes doubled. An out later, Bo Bichette singled, scoring George. Daulton Varsho hit a sac fly. Then Alejandro Kirk homered.
- One in the second: Andrés Giménez homered because baseball is a mysterious thing. 106.6 mph, 422 feet, not a cheapie.
- One in the fourth: Giménez singled, stole second and scored on Springer’s second single of the game.
- Four in the sixth: Kirk walked, Ernie Clement doubled. Giménez walked to load the bases. Lukes doubled for the second time, scoring two. Vladimir Guerrero singled home two more.
We had ten hits and five walks. There is no where like Dome. Springer, Lukes, and Giménez had two each. Varsho (with a walk) and France had 0 fors.
Nice to see Lukes hitting. Hopefully he will go on a little tear.
Justin Bruihl threw two scoreless relief innings (cutting 1.2 runs off his ERA. Tommy Nance pitched a quick ninth.
Clement took a pitch off the left hand. I thought he would come out of the game, but he stayed in. I’m expecting he’ll get a day off tomorrow.
We also stole three bases. Clement (right after the hit by pitch, I love that), Springer, and Giménez
JoD’s go to: Lukes (.185) and Kirk (.143). Let’s give honourable mention to Giménez (played some nice defense, as well as the homer), Bo and Clement (for staying in the game after the hit by pitch).
Tomorrow we have Chris Bassitt (11-7, 4.18) vs. Bailey Ober (4-7, 5.05). For guys my age, there will only be one Bailey forever and ever. I hope we score a bunch of runs for Chris.
