Playing in scorching heat, the Toronto Blue Jays weren't about to cool down. The Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 at Fenway Park on Sunday to extend their win streak to six games. (ShiDavidi)
The conditions were pretty similar during Sunday’s 8-4 victory over the, completing a three-game sweep sure to send the Fenway faithful deep into tantrum-land. A heat advisory was in place, the temperature was 35 C at first pitch and peaked at 37 C, although the humidity, mercifully, was only at 29 per cent.
“The difficulty when it’s this extreme, you can’t go to any part of your jersey to dry off. Everything is wet and it affects grip on the ball,” said Walker, now the team's pitching coach. “Long innings can be detrimental because if you're out there, 25 to 30 pitches, it can have an adverse effect for the following inning. So you want to try to have quick innings. You want to limit your warmup prior to the game. You want to try to stay cool between innings. But it is not easy.
They jumped Brayan Bello for five runs in the first, with Cavan Biggio’s two-run single and Raimel Tapia’s bases-loaded triple accounting for the damage. Another three spot came in the fifth, helped along by third baseman Jeter Downs fielding a Danny Jansen chopper and hitting Matt Chapman between the numbers with his 93.1 m.p.h.
Following an off-day Monday, more opportunity awaits as they host a two-game miniseries against the St. Louis Cardinals, who will beJose Berrios and Kevin Gausman are due to start those games, buying the Blue Jays some time to figure out when to drop lefty Yusei Kikuchi back into the rotation, should they deem him ready.
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