TORONTO – It’s time for the Toronto Blue Jays to become greedy, and to do so, they will first need to continue the recovery process.
Setting two out of three against the wayward Seattle Mariners after losing 5-1 on Wednesday night is not perfect, but the terrible Cincinnati Reds have to visit on Friday, so the opportunity to bet some victories in the current host is still available.
Making a profit from this, of course, is easier said than done, and the Blue Jays offense is still scattered enough that nothing can be taken for granted. No one is doing permanent damage, and while general manager Ross Atkins tried to improve the caliber of targeting his team before the game, this squad had to give even elite seizures.
Nights to find a way like Tuesday’s 3-0 victory over Logan Gilbert, who throws BB, should happen more regularly, and against cunning left-hander Marco Gonzalez on Wednesday, all they made was Vladimir Guerrero’s measly bases. junior – busy walk.
Now this walk was a good process, part of which Guerrero did not expand the area, accepted what was offered and was ready to hand over the baton to the cleaner Theoscar Hernandez, who is still working to regain his time on the plate and was left without work. But when the runs are hard to come by, every little missed opportunity gets brighter, and that’s what happened in the sixth, when Gonzalez vigilantly knocked Hernandez out at second base after doubling by one out.
Then the result was still 2-1, the Mariners opened the game from there and the Blue Jays did not threaten again in front of an audience of 20,472.
“This is a violation in which we usually wave bats and everyone is fine and you can go back to a 4-1, 5-1 match. But it looks like someone has scored four runs now and it looks like 10, and that’s what happens when your offense is fought, “said manager Charlie Montoyo. “When it happens (a game like expelled Hernandez), it increases. Just like when relief comes and you give up running or something, it’s like oh my god. But the boys are doing well, every game is a close game. “
Gonzalez relied heavily on a mix-up of shifting, mixing his cutter and curveball just enough to plant options in the minds of Blue Jays strikers, on the way to six innings per ball in one run. But he was also helped by 12 pursuers along with several ruptures on border fields.
This is in line with a model that Atkins acknowledged when he admitted that “yes, we pursued more than we liked.”
“But it was really good targeting and I don’t want to lose sight of it,” he added quickly. “At the same time, when we are good, we carry out our game plan extremely well.”
Clearly, this is not happening right now and continues to make the Blue Jays waste good starts, this time differently from Kevin Gaussman. Although he was not as dominant as he has been so far – he received only seven swings in his five innings at work – he skillfully limited the damage, often receiving BABIP.
“Honestly, many of these hits from the first inning are just good shots on their part,” Gaussman said. “I made my way and none of them were hit so hard, but they just found their holes. I just knew that if I stayed there, I wouldn’t have another inning like that. I just felt confident. “
The first inning may have been crucial as he escaped from loaded bases without an out, leaving only a victim to Jesse Winker and he remained unharmed until Cal Raleigh took him deep to open the fifth inning and lead the Mariners 2 – 1
Hernandez’s pick was the sixth for the Blue Jays of the season, pushing them to second most in the big ones, then Trevor Richards, extended to a second inning at work, turned down a single with two outs from Adam Fraser and then a two-run Homer to Ty France, which effectively pushed the game out of range.
The goatherd, still under Jordan Romano, who is on a day-to-day gastrointestinal infection, and Tim Maisa, on the injured list receiving a second opinion to confirm that the inflammation of his left forearm is indeed just that, remains facing relentless pressure every night.
According to one of the Baseball Reference leverage indices, the Blue Jays started the day with a draw with Arizona for the highest leverage relief at 55. Their expectation of being perfect is unfair and too often the attack has forced them to end up in this place.
Nevertheless, they will still enter the weekend at 20-18, after winning the series for the first time this month. Gaussman’s performance on Wednesday expanded the club’s only stable strength this season, starting to steer, and it really was the pillar for the Blue Jays so far.
“I have a feeling that every day we have a man of the caliber of the beast,” Gaussman said. “Moreover, we have many different visions that come to the teams. On the left (Yuseii) Kikuchi throws 97 with a twine and then you get (Hyun Jin) Ryu on the left, and it’s a completely different pitcher. Then there is Jose (Berios) and obviously (Alec) Manoa, all these guys are completely different. So I think we get along very well against a lot of teams because of that. ”
This is a great starting point and they are in sixth place in the American League as they approach the quarter of the season. The Blue Jays will need their attack to be better than that.
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