Ready or not, the BlueJays' season begins on July 24. Until then, no reps can go to waste, as Toronto prepares quickly for the 60-game sprint they'll soon embark upon. (via ShiDavidi)
, who went 4 2/3 innings while throwing 93 pitches, 54 strikes. As that split would indicate, his command varied, and he struggled locating his fastball up in the zone.
Still, from a workload perspective, he drew what he needed from the evening, even if the efforts to add realism to the game with piped in crowd noise, music, the usual array of stadium sounds and familiar voice of PA announcer Tim Langton still were a far cry from the real thing. “It’s better than nothing, for sure. It’s definitely odd. This whole thing is odd. I wish we had fans right now,” Shoemaker said. “But when you’re on the mound and you have that tunnel vision, that uber-focus, that’s the spot I like to find myself. Sometimes you drift, and you’re not focused and you might pick up on some of those things, but when I’m on the mound I try to stay as focused as possible. So honestly, I didn’t notice much of the crowd noise, or other things.
“I don’t know if I can pinpoint one certain thing,” Biggio said when asked about the biggest change he’s experienced. “Obviously staying in the hotel and not being allowed outside is definitely different. But it’s something that we all understand that we have to do and we don’t have a problem with it.
“When I come to the locker-room, when I come to the clubhouse, I do my normal things. I get here. I go to the weight room and get ready, hit, normal stuff I do on a regular basis. The only difference is that I’m doing some other precautions, whether it’s wearing a facemask, or it’s staying away and avoiding touching the coaches or whatnot. Little things like that. But in overall day aspects since getting to Toronto, it’s been as close to my routine as possible.
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