That was pretty painful all around. Yusei Kikuchi didn’t have it from the jump, and the offence was back to its irritating ‘unable to string hits together’ mode from early in the season. The Jays...
That was pretty painful all around. Yusei Kikuchi didn’t have it from the jump, and the offence was back to its irritating ‘unable to string hits together’ mode from early in the season. The Jays are going to have to take advantage of playing more than a quarter of their last 54 games against the Orioles to hold onto their wildcard position, so starting this series with a loss puts them in a tough spot.
They got on the board in the third when Cavan Biggio just snuck a ball over the centre field wall for a leadoff home run. Whit Merrifield and Teoscar Hernandez would each add a single, but three deep fly outs prevented them from cutting father into Baltimore’s lead. In the seventh, Dillon Tate paved over the top of the lineup, striking out Guerrero and Merrifield and getting Kirk to ground to second. He stayed in for the eighth, and that was the point where the Blue Jays offence finally strung some hits together. After Hernandez struck out to lead off, Bo Bichette and Chapman lined balls hard back up the middle, putting two men on and knocking him out of the game.
Yusei Kikuchi got off to an ugly start, walking two of the first three batters he faced and then giving up a home run to Ramon Urias that gave the Orioles a 3-0 lead out of the gate. He righted the ship in the second, with the help of a beautiful throw by Danny Jansen to gun down Jorge Mateo attempting to steal second after reaching on an infield hit.
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