Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 3
This is going to be a short recap, we’ll talk more about this one tomorrow. But….
Trey Yesavage was terrific. It was too bad about the back-to-back home runs in the eighth, but he was amazing. I feel bad that he didn’t get the win. Over the first seven innings he allowed two hits, one earned, no walks with 6 strikeouts. I am not at all mad about him starting the eighth, he was amazing and our pen was overworked and he was under 90 pitches. No problem at all with leaving him out there.
And I didn’t think the two pitches were particularly bad, but such is life. You’d have to have a deep hate for John Schneider to complain about him staying in.
Tommy Nance got the last two outs of the eighth (and got the win). Mason Fluharty got the save in the ninth. He was terrific too. His first save.
We scored:
- One in the first: Vlad homered. I think we were all really glad for him.
- One in the second: Kazuma Okamoto doubles, Brandon Valenzuela singled. Andrés Giménez hit a sac fly.
- One in the seventh: Nathan Lukes homered. It was good to see, because he seemed to be slumping coming into the series.
- One in the ninth: Ernie Clement led off with a single. Nathan Lukes, bunting, popped out. Lukes, who homed earlier, was asked to bunt. I get that it was a great lefty pitcher. But……I hate having him bunt. With how hard Aroldis Chapman throws, a bit of luck and Lukes could hit it out. Okamoto strikeout. Brandon Valenzuela doubled in what turned out to be the winning run. Valenzuela was an incredible find.
Jays of the Day: Valenzuela (0.42 WPA) and Fluharty (0.21)
No one had the number for the Other Award, low mark was Lukes (-0.6 and he homered, most of it was the bunt) and Okomoto (-0.6).
Tomorrow is a day game too….2:20 Eastern. Jays @ Cubs. Gausman (4-4, 3.41) vs. TBD.
