Rays 8 Blue Jays 5
Generally, if one play drives in five runs, his team wins. But not today. Andrés Giménez homered in the first (three run shot) and the seventh (two runs), but we also gave up a bunch of runs.
Things went bad for Kevin Gausman right from the start. Chandler Simpson bounced one just to the right of the mound, Gausman went for it and bobbled it. Simpson is too fast for a team to get him out if they don’t play it perfectly. On top of that, it seemed like Kevin hurt his knee on the play and the rest
of the inning didn’t go well.
After the lead off ‘single’ (it really was an error), the inning went single (runners on the corners), sac fly, strikeout, double (runners on second and third) and single, fly out. It was 3-0 before we hit.
The Rays got two more in the second (it could have been worse, Vlad made a nice throw to cut down a runner at the plate). And one more each in the fourth (Simpson again, singled, went to second on a rather weird moment, the Rays were calling for a balk, the umpires didn’t agree, but Kevin ‘disengaged’ from the rubber for the third time, then Simpson stole third with Brandon Valenzuela throwing wide of the bag) and fifth (Jonathan Aranda homer).
Gausman went 4.2 allowing 10 hits, 7 runs, 6 earned, no walks with 5 strikeouts, one of them his 2000th of his career. Too bad it didn’t come in a better game.
Braydon Fisher gave up the eighth run. Mason Fluharty, Joe Mantiply and Yariel Rodriguez put up zeros. Rodriguez looked very good.
Offensively, we had six hits. Two of them homers from Giménez. And we got a single each from Okamoto, Varsho, Sanchez and Straw.
Guerrero, Springer and Clement each looked terrible at the plate. I don’t know what’s going on with Vlad, but he’s going to have to fix it soon.
Jay of the Day: Giménez (0.21 WPA).
Other Award: Gausman (-0.41), Springer (-0.09), Vlad (-0.09) and Clement (-0.10) going a collective 0 for 12. Clement did hit one deep in the ninth but it was caught.
Tomorrow, Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.60) vs Patrick Corbin (1-1, 3.60). Please be a better game than today.
