Red Sox 0 (in reality) Blue Jays 2
All that’s worth talking about happened in the top of the seventh. Red Sox down 2-0. Game is going along quickly. All is well.
Anthony Seigler singled off Simeon Woods Richardson to lead off the inning. Connor Wong also singled. Nick Sogard lined one at Vladimir Guerrero, who got the ball on a hop and got the first out on a force at second.
Then…..true weirdness. The scoreboard, apparently showed two outs. Truly that’s really neither here nor there, as my dad would
say. It is a none issue.
Ceddanne Rafaela hit a fly ball to center field. Both the runner on first and the runner on third took off before the catch. Brett Bateman threw the ball in to second, and, after a bit of confusion, threw to first to double up the runner that left first. Everybody left the field. Sportsnet went to commercial.
When they came back from commercial, the umpires were talking to the managers. And then they called ‘New York’, to get a ruling from ‘the Gods above’.
Apparently the Gods decided that the Red Sox deserved a run because the Jays took the out at first, but the runner from second crossed the plate first. It didn’t matter that he ‘tagged up’ before Bateman made the catch, which, of course, is illegal.
So the Jays couldn’t appeal because they left the field after the called third out. They didn’t know they should have stayed on the field through the commercial break, so that they could appeal a run that wasn’t put on the board until ten minutes after the inning ended.
If you can give a team a run, ten minutes after the inning ends, the other team should be able to appeal the run ten minutes later.
Umpires is so stupid (as Yosemite Sam would say).
I’m a fan of playground justice and that wasn’t playground justice. No kids would come up with that crap.
Anyway, Jameson Taillon started and looked good, until he left the field after the end of the fourth, and told Pete Walker and John Schneider that he had a pain in his forearm. Words you don’t want to hear from a starter. Taillon allowed one hit, with three walks and three strikeouts in his four scoreless innings. I don’t think we’ll see him on the mound in again in five days.
Simeon Woods Richardson pitched the next three innings, and he was very good too. Allowed four hits, one walk, with two strikeouts and got the earned run against, which really isn’t fair. He got the win.
Tyler Rogers pitched a quick eighth, allowing a walk, and getting a strikeout.
Louis Varland got the ninth. He gave up a leadoff double and I was worried. A sac bunt move Jarren Duran to third. But Varland got a strikeout and a ground out (nice play Vlad) to get his 25th save.
On offense we got just seven hits. We scored:
- One in the fifth: Charles McAdoo led off the inning with a home run.
- One in the six: George Springer had a one-out single. And he stole second (we needed to challenge the play to overturn the umpire’s bad call). With two outs, Andrés Giménez singled to right and Springer scored. Thankfully, the Red Sox catcher, Connor Wong, couldn’t handle the throw from right, or George would have likely been out.
Jays of the Day: Taillon (0.21 WPA), Varland (0.16), McAdoo (0.13), SWR (0.12) and Rogers (0.12).
Other Award: Nathan Lukes (-0.09).
Tomorrow we have Patrick Sandoval (1-0, 3.38) vs. Dylan Cease (7-5, 2.28). It is another 7:00 Eastern start. What will happen that will piss us off in that game?
