Blue Jays 7 Yankees 1
My two favourite things in life are a Jays win and a Yankees loss. When I get both in the same game…well there is nothing better.
I also love game when the Jays score early often.
The Jays are now four games up on the Yankees and Red Sox (could be 4.5 over over the Red Sox if the Diamondbacks can hold an early lead).
Kevin Gausman was incredible tonight. He seems to raise to the occasion for us. Tonight, eight innings, just four hits, one earned (an Aaron Judge home run), one walk
with five strikeouts. He couldn’t have been better.
Braydon Fisher pitched the ninth, but then I could have finished out that game (editor note: no he couldn’t), helped out by a nice 6-4-3 double play to end the game.
And on offense, we scored three in the first and never looked back.
We scored:
- Three in the first: With two outs, Vladimir Guerrero singled. Bo Bichette doubled him home (nice running Vlad). Daulton Varsho singled to give us runners on the corners. Alejandro Kirk walked. Nathan Lukes singled home Bo and Daulton.
- One in the second: George Springer was hit by pitch with one out. He’s been hit too much lately. Addison Barger walked. Vlad singled and Bo hit a sac fly.
- One in the fifth: Vlad homered (only 102.2 mph and 374 feet to opposite field). As Buck said, always hit to right first at Yankee Stadium.
- One in the eighth: Kirk lead off with a walk and then went to second on a wild pitch. An out later, Ernie Clement doubled Kirk home. Clement tried to stretch it to a triple but was out fairly easily, but, with one outs, I’m ok with him trying to get to third.
- One in the ninth: Again, with two out, Vlad singled. Bo walked. And Varsho doubled home Vlad.
We had 11 hits on the day. Vlad had four, he seems to have righted the ship after a slow start coming back from the hamstring issue. Bo had three hits. And Varsho had two. Our three, four, five guys went 9 for 13, with a walk, five runs, and four RBI.
Springer, Barger (with one walk), Kirk (with two walks) and Andrés Giménez had 0 fors.
Jays of the Day: Gausman (.233 WPA), Bo (.135), Lukes (.124, 1 for 4, but 2 RBI), and Vlad (.102).
No one gets the other award. Gimenez had the low mark at -.031.
