Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 1
I love it when we beat the Red Sox.
Once again, we got great pitching:
- Yariel Rodriguez pitched his scoreless inning back a couple of months ago.
- Ryan Burr pitched the season and the first out of the third. He had three strikeouts with one walk.
- Ryan Yarbourgh threw the next 3.1 innings, allowing two hits and 1 walk with our strikeouts. He came out of the game in the sixth after giving up a walk and a double while getting two outs.
- Zach Pop got the last out of the inning. He got the win with that one out.
- Genesis Cabrera pitched a clean seventh with a strikeout.
- Erik Swanson gave up a (barely) home run over the monster that just got to the top. Someone reached out to catch it, but the replay showed he didn’t reach into play.
- Chad Green gave up a double in the ninth but picked up what is officially his third save. Really, it is his 15th with time travel and all (do they have to go through and update all the box scores between June 26th and now?).
Overall, the Red Sox had 4 hits, 3 walks, and 11 strikeouts. It was a pretty good bullpen day for the Jays.
We didn’t score until the seventh, when George Springer, well over the green monster.
We got three more in the eight: Brian Serven hit a one-out single. Then Spencer Horwitz reached on a Triston Casas error. Vlad doubled down the right field line to bring in both. Addison Barger followed with a double to right (ground rule double) to bring in Vlad.
That was all the scoring needed. Will Wagner went 0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts, so though we saw him get hits in his first three MLB at-bats, he is officially 0 for 4 in his MLB debut.
We ended up with six hits and two walks. No Jay had more than one hit.
Will Wagner went 0 for 4, so erase your memory of him getting three straight hits to start his MLB career. He’s now 0 for 4 in his MLB debut, which happened a month and a half before he was called up.
Danny Jansen went 1 for 4 in his Red Sox debut, which happened before we traded him. Time travel stories make my stomach hurt.
Since FanGraphs doesn’t know what to do with this game, let’s give Jays of the Day to Springer, Vlad, Yarbourgh, Burr and Swanson.
I’m not giving out the Other Award.
Game Two is 5:00 starts. Jose Berrios (12-9, 3.79) vs. Zack Kelly (5-2, 2.74). Let’s Win Two.