Yankees 8 Blue Jays 3
This one had everything, other than a Jays’ win, of course.
John Schneider got ejected. It kind of pissed me off, because the Yankees José Caballero complained for a long time about a pitch clock thing (I guess) and the umpire let him complain and complain. John comes out on a balk call, and he was ejected in record time.
The balk? Well…..I generally think that if there is a balk, all the umpires will call it. This one, only the plate umpire did. I think he felt that Jeff Hoffman
started towards the plate, then turned to second. John came out for, let’s say, an explanation, but the umpire decided not to explain. Course John may not have asked nicely.
The game? Well, it was tied going into the ninth, but Braydon Fisher didn’t ‘have it’ today. He got a strikeout, then gave up a single. Then, on a full count pitch, Uncle Ben Rice homered. After a walk and a fly out, Tommy Nance came in.
He didn’t do any better. A walk and a José Caballero home run put an end to any hope of a come back in the bottom of the inning.
Patrick Corbin wasn’t great, giving up a lot of hits (7) while not all that many runs (2) in 3.2 innings.
Spencer Miles gave up a run in his 2.2,
Mason Fluharty got the last two outs of the seventh.
Jeff Hoffman gave up a leadoff walk, had that runner steal and committed the rather weird balk, talked about above, but got two strikeouts with the runner on third to get out of the inning.
Offensively? Well, as seemingly always is the case, we didn’t score as much as we should have.
We got:
- A run in the third: Nathan Lukes and Alejandro Kirk started the inning with singles, but Yohendrick Piñango hit into a double play. Kazuma Okamoto singled in the run.
- A run in the fourth: Ernie Clement led off with a single. After outs by Davis Schneider and Charles McAdoo, George Springer and Nathan Lukes each singled to bring around Lukes.
- In the sixth Schneider homered.
We did have 11 hits (with the one home run) so, yes, we should have scored more. Nathan Lukes, who seemed to have hit a cold spell in the last little bit had 3 hits, including a double. Having two hits were Springer, Okamoto (with a double), and Schneider (with a walk, along with the home run, bringing his average up 22 points, three more games like that and he’ll make it to the Mendoza line),
Piñango, Sánchez (with a walk) and McAdoo had 0 fors. McAdoo looked very over matched. His batting average has dropped to .167. I’m afraid, he really isn’t impressing me, but it’s just 24 PA. Sanchez is also the most worrying outfielder since Corey Patterson. Today he seemed to be trying out for the World Cup on one ball in the outfield.
Jays of the Day: Davis Schneider (0.22 WPA), Hoffman (0.17), Okamoto (0.11) and Lukes (0.09).
Other Award: Fisher (-0.42), Lips (-0.18), and McAdoo (-0.15)
Tomorrow is an off-day. I don’t know about anyone else but I could use one. Tuesday the Jays will be in Boston, for the start of three against the Red Sox.
