The bats woke up every five innings, and fortunately that was (just barely) enough
It took a little extra labour to pull it out on Labour Day, but the bats came to life just in time fo for theThey started the game being stymied by the upper 90s heat and effective breaking stuff of Luis Medina, with Vladimir Guerrero the only one to reach over the first four innings other than Spencer Horwitz being slightly clipped and then erased on a double play.
For his part, Jose Berrios had a shaky first inning, with the first two runners reaching. At which point he settled into dominant form, with excellent command of his pitches. That enabled him to set down the next 14 runners in order, until with two out in the 5th a heretofore-unknown-to-me guy names Lawrence Butler smashed a solo home run off him.
That was the end for Berrios, a little curious given he was only at 84 pitches and the bullpen pretty depleted. And it immediately backfired on John Schneider as Yimi Garcia hung a curve to the second batter for the third absolute bomb of the afternoon and the game was tied. The jays barely managed to hold Oakland at bay, with a leadoff single in the 8th stranded after being bunted to second, advancing to third on a ground ball before Biggio made a very nice snag and throw at third to end the inning. Another leadoff single followed off Geneiss Cabrera in the 9th, this time Jordan Romano stranding the runner at third after a couple stolen bases.
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