Jays 6 Yankees 7
The Jays turned in one inning. Going into the seventh, the Jays were up 5-3. Adam Macko is in and gets the first two outs of the inning, but, with Aaron Judge coming up, John Schneider goes with a right-hander, Yariel Rodriguez. Understandable, Judge is much better vs lefties. And I like getting Macko out while he can feel really good about himself. Faced three batters, got three outs. A great start to a career. Rodriguez had faced eight batters and allowed one hit since coming up.
But he had nothing tonight:
- Judge single.
- Bellinger home run. Tie game.
- Trent Grisham walks and steals. Now would have been a good moment to pull Yariel.
- Jazz Chisholm homers and we are down by two,
- Then he got the last out. Some about horse and barn doors.
I am understanding that we have a bullpen day tomorrow. Hopefully with Spencer Miles doing 3-4 innings, but still we are going to use 5 or more pitchers tomorrow. But, Yariel didn’t have it and, well, tomorrow is tomorrow’s problem.
We had a shot in the ninth. David Bednar in for the Yankees and he does the near impossible, he walks Ernie Clement. Jesús Sánchez, pinch-hitting for Myles Straw, doubles on the sixth pitch of the at bat, to score Clement and become the tying run at second.
Brandon Valenzuela struck out on four pitches.
Yohendrick Piñango walks on six pitches.
George Springer takes three straight balls and swings at a pitch low and inside. 3-0 count, he should have been taking. Next pitch, very low, swings. Next pitch, even lower, swings. George’s job is to be the calm veteran. It was just an awful at bat,
Vladimir Guerrero up. Takes two balls. Swings at a pitch on the outside edge. Gameday has it as a strike, but he should be waiting for a middle middle strike. Pitch five was well outside, he swung. I mean, it was likely smart to be looking for something off the plate, the way Bednar is throwing, but no need to chase that far out. Pitch six was at the top of the zone, a strike, Vlad grounds it to second.
Beyond that, Patrick Corbin wasn’t sharp, 4 innings, 6 hits, 3 earned, three walks, 3 strikeouts. We were pretty lucky that he only gave up the 3 runs.
Braydon Fisher got five outs, giving up one it. Macko three straight outs. Hoffman finished the game, giving up just a hit in the inning.
We did score some:
- Three in the fourth: Vlad and Kazuma Okamoto singled. Two outs later, Clement homered. He had a day.
- One in the fifth: Springer homered.
- One in the sixth: One out singles from Lenyn Sosa and Daulton Varsho puts runners on the corners (Sosa just beat out Judge’s throw). Clement ground out 6-4, to pick up his fourth RBI of the day,
And, of course, the one in the ninth.
We had nine his and three walks. Springer had two (but two and a walk would have been better). Straw and Schneider had 0 fors (of the starters).
Jays of the Day: Clement (0.42 WPA), Sanchez (0.21), Fisher (0.11), and Macko (0.10, getting a JoD in his first game).
Other Award: Rodriguez (-0.72), Corbin (-0.17), and Valenzuela (-0.17). Springer, despite the homer, and Vlad get honorary ‘Other Awards’ for those terrible ninth inning at bats.
