Toronto’s Alek Manoah had a rough first inning, but the lack of offence ultimately doomed the team to a Game 1 loss
Alek Manoah’s high school coach may believe “pressure is something you put in tires,” but maybe he didn’t pitch in a major-league playoff game.
It had all gone so well up to that point. The crowd got in on time. The noise level was suitably intimidating. The Jays had Edwin Encarnacion throw out the first pitch – building a human bridge back to the last time baseball fans in this town really believed. Even the fight the Jays were able to mount flattered to deceive. Seven hits, all but one of them singles. Most of those singles were seeing-eye balls that found unlikely holes in the Seattle defence. All the Jays’ runners were left dangling on base.
A day ago, this season was a good-news story. Sure, Toronto hadn’t dominated in the way it seemed to promise. Actually, it had wobbled badly through the middle third. Maybe that ‘trailer vs. movie’ analogy in spring training wasn’t the greatest idea after all. But it had all been wrapped up by a great September, which cast the whole in soft light.
Should that come to pass, the Jays will have a million great subjective answers. How they’ve learned and grown and embraced and done a whole lot of other things you do in group therapy. In the Jays’ little world, everything is always getting better.
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