Blue Jays 5 Padres 1
Did a blind person assemble the Padres’ uniform for tonight’s game?
We are on quite a nice streak of great starts. Yariel Rodríguez was super in his second MLB start. 4 innings, with just 3 hits, 1 walk and 7 strikeouts, with 1 earned run on a Fernando Tatis Jr. home run. Tatis is up to 113 home runs in his career, so we can forgive.
Bowden Francis pitched 2 innings plus one batter in relief. He allowed 1 hit (that “plus one batter”) and a walk, getting 2 strikeouts.
Tim Mayza, coming in with a runner on first, pitched a scoreless inning
Yimi Garcia was absolutely amazing striking out the side in the eighth.
Jordan Romano finished out the game, even though it wasn’t a save opportunity.
The Jays’ runs came early:
- One in the first: Justin Turner homered.
- Four in the second: With one out, Danny Jansen doubled (his first of two tonight), and Cavan Biggio walked. With two outs, Kevin Kiermaier doubled both home. And then Bo, Vlad and Justin singles made it 5-1.
As usual, we should have scored more.
In the eighth, Davis Schneider led off with a single but then was thrown out trying to advance to second on a ball that got away from catcher Luis Campusano. It was an unfortunate moment because, an out later, Danny Jansen doubled, and Davis would have scored on that.
In the ninth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa was gifted a triple by Tatis who had IKF’s line drive go past him with no outs. But Kiermaier, Bichette and Guerrero all struck out. We needed one of them to get the bat on the ball.
In all, the Jays had 11 hits. Bo, Vlad, Turner and Jansen all had two hits. Ofors from Varsho and Biggio.
We got some nice defense, notably from Varsho and Kiermaier.
Jays of the Day: Rodrigues (.099 WPA), Kiermaier (.165) and Turner (.134). Let’s give Honourable Mention to Mayza, Francis, Garcia and Jansen.
No one gets the Other Award. The low mark goes to IFK with a -.045.
Tomorrow, it is an 8:40 Eastern start time. Jose Berrios goes up against TBD.