Blue Jays 4 Rays 6 Well, that was an interesting (or terrible) game. Our ‘Gold Glove’ (there have been many poor Gold Glove choices) first baseman made two errors (could almost be three). One on a...
Our ‘Gold Glove’ first baseman made two errors . One on a throw that he stretched for but couldn’t hold onto, and one that a ground ball that he missed hit his body . Then Chris Bassitt made the play on and tossed it to Vlad, but he missed it. A lot was going on, but Vlad, instead of getting his foot on the side of the bag, had his foot in the middle of the bag, and the runner likely stepped on his foot about the time the ball got there. Those two errors cost us four runs.
And once again, we had troubles with runners in scoring position, but then we didn’t have many chances. We were 1 for 4, the one being Whit Merrifield’s 2-run homer.The Jays actually got the tying run to the plate in the ninth. After Varsho’s homer, Kirk and Merrifield had singles. Jansen popped out to left, but then Brandon Belt pinch-hitting for Kiermaier singled, and Kirk scored. George Springer walked, bringing the go-ahead run to the plate.
We had some good defense too. George Springer made a very nice catch in right. And Kiermaier made a terrific throw to the plate to get Wander Franco trying to score on a fly ball to medium center. I didn’t think Kevin had a chance at getting him, but even with a Rays’challenge, we got the call.We had a couple of moments where we got unlucky. Vlad hit a double in the first, and Chapman followed with a liner , but right at the first baseman.
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