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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in a pair of runs and scored a pair of runs in an 8-4 comeback win over the Yankees |
After a tough loss last night due to Jeff Hoffman being taken deep in the 9th, the Blue Jays were looking to notch their 17th series win and 11th season series win of the season. Chris Bassitt got the start with Alejandro Kirk behind the plate. Davis Schneider was in LF and Myles Straw was in CF. Ernie Clement was at the hot corner and Leo Jimenez got the start at 2B. Could the Blue Jays notch their 17th series win and 11th season series win of the season? Here is tonight's game recap
Game Highlights:
- The Yankees opened the scoring in the top of the 2nd as Jesson Dominguez whacked a solo blast to right-center and into the Yankees bullpen
- The Blue Jays tied it up in the bottom of the 4th as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubled scoring George Springer
- Four batters later, Ernie Clement singled scoring Guerrero Jr.
- The Yankees tied it in the top of the 5th as Anthony Volpe smacked a solo blast to left-center\
- The Blue Jays retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning on a fielder's choice hit by Springer that scorred Davis Schneider and Springer. Yankees stater Max Fried was charged with a throwing error on the play
- The Yankees tied it in thew bottom half of the inning as Aaron Judge smashed a 2-run blast to the opposite field in right-center; also scoring Trent Grisham
- The Blue Jays retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning as Myles Straw doubled scoring Clement
- Two batters, Straw scored on a fielding error by Fried on a ball hit by Will Wagner
- Max Fried pitching line: 6.1IP 6H 6R (4 earned) 3BB 3K 102 pitches (60 for strikes)
- Yankees manager Aaron Boone and Yankeees pitching coachMatt Blake were both ejected in the top of the 7th for arguing balls and strikes)
- The Blue Jays added a pair of runs in the bottom of the 7th as Bo Bichette belted a 2-run jack to left-center; also scoring Guerrero Jr.
- Chris Bassitt pitching line: 7.1IP 3H 4R (3 earned) 0BB 8K 94 pitches (63 for strikes)
- Final score: Blue Jays 8 Yankees 4
My Take:
- Chris Bassitt fired 7.1 innings, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) on 3 hits while walking none and striking out 8. Bassitt got an assist by the Blue Jays video guys on a successful challenge of a safe call at 1B on the first batter of the game. He had out streaks of 5, 6, and 8 batters. I would have let Bassitt try to finish the 8th inning.
- The bullpen gave up 2 hits over the last 1.2 innings. Yariel Rodriguez retired every batter he faced
- Vlad (2 runs scored, 2RBI), Bo Bichette (2-run HR), Ernie Clement (run scored, RBI), Myles Straw (run scored, RBI) and George Springer (2 runs scored) drove the offence today
- The Blue Jays were 4-13 with runners in scoring position
- Tonight was the Blue Jays 31st comeback win. They had 50 comeback wins in 1987 (the most in franchise history in a single season). They had 40 comebacks wins in 1992 and 44 comeback wins the following year. Nobody is going to want to face the Blue Jays in the playoffs
- Up next, the Blue Jays hit the road, beginning in Detroit tomorrow night. The Tigers took the series in Toronto back in mid-May, outscoring the Blue Jays 9-8. Eric Lauer starts against Tigers righty Reese Olson