All the conditions pre-game were setting Kevin Gausman up to fail, but the Blue Jays starter responded with a much improved performance. But all of that was overshadowed by a game that only got more chaotic as it went along. (ArdenZwelling)
— in from the bullpen to try to record a save in the first high-leverage MLB appearance of his life with the crazy-fast Anderson starting the inning on second. Off ya go!
"I've never been in an extra-inning game that you lose where it's not tough. So, that's just another one," Montoyo said."And, of course, they always become a little tougher when you had a chance to win it and then you blew the save. But our closer's been one of the best closers in baseball. He just didn't have it today.", who left the game prior to his fourth plate appearance of the night with right elbow discomfort.
But it’s another when Cease is getting fastballs off the plate, like the first-pitch strikes he got against Kirk andin the second, and the 2-0 call he received on a heater that was — generously — six inches off the black to Guerrero with a runner on in the fourth. It really do be like that sometimes. And to be fair, Gausman received three generous rulings of his own in and off the plate to right-handed hitters on a night when Eddings' strike zone was encroaching on the batter's boxes.
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