As It Was: Jays Steady in First Week
I’m trying to not let my annoyance at the result of the game last night in the Bronx cloud my judgement of the week.
An excellent start from a pitcher squandered by silly errors and a lack of timely hits. The Jays had Severino on the ropes several times in the early going, and the Jays never managed the knockout. Severino settled down and the general messiness on the Jays’ part sunk Kevin Gausman and his ridiculous splliter (or changeup) — Drew Fairservice and his new co-host Ricky Romero had a chat about it on Spin Rate. I’m going to call it a splange up.
They couldn’t even take advantage of this:
In this world, it's just us
I thought going into the series a split would be acceptable and they split. The messiness of the fourth game doesn’t change that.
Alek Manoah had a great start.
Vlad Jr. did this, putting the league on notice.
The series also featured the most hilarious call I’ve seen in a while.
Giancarlo Stanton is a complete beast and a great player, but him flailing at Gausman’s offerings was hilarious. He just looked completely useless.
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Seems you cannot be replaced
Between the tight back and forth nature of the Yankee season, and the insane amount of scoring that was featured in the opening series versus the Rangers, it’s clear this team can score runs. The home run jacket will be worn. The pitching is likely suffering from the shortened spring training (a fact that seemed to be forgotten this week— remember the lockout? When we thought baseball wasn’t going to happen?
That short spring is going to have consequences.
It was a good start.
And this was just bananas.