Excruciating as Sunday’s loss was in the moment, George Springer wasn’t about to rush to check the out of town scoreboard.
“There’s no point in looking at it, in my eyes,” said Springer on a day in which his team lost for just the fifth time in 18 September games. “I don’t see why I would. The standings flip and flow every day. They can flip in an hour.
While a sweep would have enhanced those prospects — and in the process all but buried the Orioles’ thin hope of squeaking in — the Jays still head into one of their two remaining off-days with the top wild-card berth. There was almost another hat tip to Springer in the bottom half of the ninth. Despite having taken a pitch off his elbow in the third inning, Springer fell just feet short of tying it with a blast that ended up being a double high off the wall in centre field.
It has certainly been an impressive stretch for the Jays, who slipped to 83-64 and 8-8 against the plucky O’s, whom they will face three more times in Baltimore to end the season. “We approached it the exact same way,” Springer said of his Houston years. “Guys were competing every day, no matter if we were up in the standings or not. To end September playing well was the goal. So, for us to be firing and playing our best before going into a potential playoff matchup is big for us.Article content
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