Sure, the umpiring wasn't great on Tuesday. But the Toronto Blue Jays also have to clean things up defensively when they're playing tight games against powerful teams like the New York Yankees. (bnicholsonsmith)
Replays clearly showed thatfirst baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did indeed tag Marwin Gonzalez on the back in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday night. It’s also possible that Gonzalez veered outside the basepaths, which would also result in an out. And it looked as though Guerrero Jr. had his foot on the bag on the previous play, when Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on an infield hit.
Yet that’s only part of the story here. The Blue Jays’ seventh-inning defence was sloppy from start to finish, contributing to the Yankees’ rally. Bo Bichette opened the inning with a fielding error and while Kiner-Falefa was ruled to have reached on an infield hit, Bichette had a chance on that one, too. Mix in a diving miss by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. on a Josh Donaldson double and you have an inning in which the umpires weren’t the only ones giving the Yankees a helping hand.
Alek Manoah was extremely effective over six innings of work, striking out seven while allowing just three hits. One of those hits was an Aaron Judge home run, but Manoah still reinforced his status as a frontline pitcher Tuesday, whiffing Judge and Stanton twice apiece and retiring 15 consecutive hitters at one point. For a pitcher who’s less than a year into his big-league career, he has been incredibly consistent.
Earlier this year, Bichette was letting the ball travel deep into the strike zone -- an approach that often allows him to make hard contact to the opposite field. But his timing was off ever so slightly, contributing to his struggles.
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