Happy Sunday. My wife and I took part in the Run for the Cure, for Breast Cancer, though we didn’t run, we walked. My wife’s best friend has had stage four breast cancer for several years now. But she’s still here, which we wouldn’t have bet on years ago when she first found out. My wife is two months out from knee replacement surgery, and this was here longest walk since then, but she kept up a good pace all the way through. I might have slowed her down. She’ll likely feel it later today, but I think
we can consider her recovered, not that she’ll stop her exercises.
It is Trey Yesavage Day again. The team deserves some credit for putting him in there, with a future Hall of Famer not even making the roster. It is pretty impressive to go from Dunedin, through every level in the minors —Vancouver, New Hampshire, and Buffalo —and now starting our second playoff game of the year. He’ll be the youngest pitcher ever to start a playoff game for the Jays in team history.
It is the right move, but I can’t imagine that, when they signed Max Scherzer, they thought he be a healthy scratch from the playoff roster, and Yesavage would take his spot. Even a couple of months ago, when we started to think we’d be a playoff team, I don’t think any of us thought that Scherzer, Chris Bassitt and Jose Berrios wouldn’t be in the playoff rotation.
One of the things I love about baseball is that a player can be going through a terrible slump and then be a hero the next day. Vlad and Kirk were having an awful time of it, and then they came through when we needed them.
But then yesterday was a team win, the whole line up contributed, which is nice to see. We aren’t built around one or two guys. The only ones in the starting lineup not to get a hit were George Springer, who walked and scored and Ernie Clement, who drove in a run and scored. Even Gimenez had a couple of hits and drove in two.
Andres Gimenez had a day we weren’t expecting, two hits, two RBI.
Today’s lineup, the usual group against a left-hander, but no Santander, who had a couple of hard hit balls yesterday.
Yesterday’s Umpire Scorecard. Chris Segal was excellent. Two bad strike calls, but that’s about all you can complain about.
I don’t suppose we need reassurance that Louis Varland’s strikeout of Giancarlo Stanton was a big moment, but…
