Playing better in the second half of the season is what every Blue Jay is laser-focused on, but for now, the five teammates currently in Los Angeles are enjoying every moment of being an all-star. (ShiDavidi)
For Manoah and his four Blue Jays teammates here at Dodger Stadium for the festivities, enjoying the moment is all the more important given the two weeks they’ve just been through. The grief for first-base coach Mark Budzinski, whose daughter Julia was killed in a boating accident. A breaking-point 1-9 skid as the games went on and their play went sideways. A nadir loss that turned when the webbing of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s glove broke on a relay to first.
“I can tell you this – we haven’t played our best baseball,” said Manoah. “We might have, out of the first 3½ months, played a couple of weeks of our best baseball, and we’re in a playoff spot. That alone will tell you a lot about our team and how good we can be. Expectations are expectations. Those are hypotheticals on what could, should, would happen. But what is happening is happening.
Guerrero, amid the unrelenting expectations put upon him, in particular has ridden the ups and downs of the season. Back in May, he conceded that and at separate points this season, both Springer and Teoscar Hernandez have urged him to make sure he’s still having fun, one of his trademarks.
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