Blue Jays 6 Red Sox 1
I’ve said my favourite thing is a Jays win and a Yankees loss. But a Red Sox loss is up there on the list of Tom’s favourtie things. No, I’m not going to start singing.
It It really was the Davis Schneider/Andrés Giménez show. Schneider homered—419 feet, over the Monster—and doubled. He didn’t walk. He drove in two of our four runs. Giménez also homered right after Davis—413 feet, dead center—and doubled. Well, Springer had a day too.
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We also scored in the third. Andrés doubled. He was called out on the field, but it was overturned on a close challenge. Myles Straw had an incredible at-bat—14 pitches—before hitting a fly ball deep enough for Giménez to move to third. Giménez then scored on George Springer’s sacrifice fly. Dan Schulman suggested Straw might bunt, which inspired a stream of swearing from me.
The scoring continued in the sixth. Kazuma Okamoto drew a one-out walk. He moved to third on Nathan Lukes’ single. Okamoto then scored on Schneider’s double.
Later, in the ninth, two more runs came in: Straw walked, then Springer hit one over the monster (438 feet). It was the 300th home run of his career and his 126th with the Jays.
Overall, we had just 7 hits. Three were home runs. We also drew 6 walks. Springer, Schneider, and Giménez had six of the hits. Luke had the other hit.
Switching to pitching, this game will not be used by Dylan Cease if he ends up in arbitration at some point. He was not sharp. But he had 5 scoreless innings, with 4 hits, 4 walks and 7 strikeouts. He wasn’t helped by a plate umpire who had a very interesting view of the strike zone.
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In the first inning, with two on, Cease got Jarren Duran to hit a soft popup just beyond the mound, but Dylan tripped when he was running over the mound to get the ball, and, well, didn’t make the catch. But he got out of the inning on the next batter.
As for the bullpen, most did the job. Jeff Hoffman had a great sixth inning with no baserunners and one strikeout. Tyler Rogers gave up one hit in his inning but allowed no runs. Tommy Nance made us nervous: he gave up a home run, another hit, and a walk while recording only two outs.
Finally, Louis Varland earned a four-out save, his 13th of the season. He gave up a hit and a walk in the ninth, but had three strikeouts.
In addition to his day at the plate, Myles Straw made two very good plays in center field. Lukes also had a nice catch in right field on a ball he almost overran.
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Jays of the Day: Cease (0.29 WPA), Schneider (0.15), and Giménez (0.12). Let’s give an honourable mention to Straw and Varland.
No one had the ‘Other Award’.
And they had a lot of Scottish soccer fans in the wooden seats of Fenway:
Tomorrow we have Max Scherzer (1-4, 10.23) starting for the Jays. Jake Bennett (1-2, 5.28). If you are going to the game, and sitting at the top of the Green Monster or in any of the outfield seats, bring a glove.
