Jays loose 10 - 2; Yankees win - Jays are .5 a game up in the Al East
I can think of dozen reasons this game played out the way it did:
- the Umpire's wild strike zone;
- plays not made by the defense;
- Stroman arriving on the bench on a Hutchison Start day;
- Jays line-up (uncharacteristically) swinging at balls outside the strike zone;
- Jimenez's (Tactic?) of delaying throwing the ball in the early innings;
- a bad read by Goins of a hit ball to right - where he didn't advance to 3B with no outs;
- Goins triple clutch on a DP ball that went from a sure 2 outs, to perhaps one out, to no outs;
- Bo Shultz first time out in a hold-the-deficit-where-it-is situation (blows the game wide open giving up 4);
- On any given day Baltimore is better than the standings reflect.
Goins appears a lot in that list, but don't get me wrong, a cusp player who plays great with a winning team - that's winning - often looks much better than he actually is, especially on a team that's experiencing the inevitable losses that even great teams must suffer; the great team itself often better than the Team - against any team than is actually is.
These are the wages of excellence.
Key moments in a game often get magnified later. One was the odd play in LF in the 6th, when the Baltimore's re-took the lead just after the Jays had tied the game - when on a jump at the wall for an out, became a HR when the ball ricocheted out of Revere's glove in an unlikely, seemingly impossible single-bullet-theory bit of physics, finding itself on the other side of the wall.
MLB Advanced Media Embed
Also:
Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA Jiménez(W, 10-9) 5.2 4 2 1 6 4 0 95-54 4.24
A test of faith in a game that offers a lot of that; tomorrow another opportunity to be.
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