Ray was great, Jays’ attack was terrible, Jays lost

Tigers 4 Blue Jays 1 (10 innings)

It’s really crazy that we can’t hit these casual, average (or medium-term) beginners. We should be able to make five rounds easily against these guys, but it won’t happen. You should lose when you make only one batch in seven batches (searching for his name) Tyler Alexander.

It was a great start for Robbie Ray. Easily as good as he looked all year, and he was good all year.

8 innings, only 5 hits (all singles, at least one should have been a mistake, nothing to hit), 0 walks and 11 handicaps. Wondering how many 11 handicaps and 0 walking games there are in a season?

But in the eighth set, Zack Short started the inning. Bunted to second. Not a head fan, but not a bad place for one. Then Short took the third. The dirty slider overtook Alejandro Kirk and the tying results. Lots of complaints from one knee, but it was very difficult to fight the ball. Called wild pitch and probably the right call.

Unfortunately, it evened out the game.

Under no circumstances should a pitcher like Tyler Alexander keep Jays 1 run 7 innings. It can’t happen. Tyler came into the game with 4.57 ERA. We should have been able to beat him.

We did not do.

4 hits, 2 walks and 6 handicaps against him. The only good moment against him was Vladimir Guerreros ’36th home team, which was his first since August 8th.

And we would only get one hit against the Tigers bull puppy.

In addition to this, Kirk had a double. And Lourdes Gurriel, Santiago Espinal and Kevin Smith (his first MLB hit) got singles. Gurriel also went for two walks.

And 0-12 with RISP and 4 doubles didn’t make baseball a win.

Jays had a good shot of victory. In the ninth round, Teoscar and Gurriel walked to start the inning. Both in perfect amounts, both against excellent bats with a hard throw against Gregory Soto.

When Anthony Kirk is coming, Charlie jumps with Breyvic Valera. I hate this movement. The church seems to have a fast racket. He’s the kind of batsman I want in this place.

Add that Soto has problems in the strike area ….. I don’t think bunting is a move, but Valera will be attacked. Fighting against a guy who throws 100 is not easy. Two failures make us count 0-2. Now Soto hits here, but then there’s no reason to shoot in the corners if the guy hits. I hate bunting with two strikes (actually, if there’s a word bunting in a sentence, I’m going to hate it). But with two strokes, Bunter really can’t think of putting the ball in. He has to hit it where it is thrown and keep it fair.

The good news, he got it down. But the news, first baseman Jonathan Schoop played just fine with the ball (almost hit it past) and threw a good third. Teoscar was gone.

We meant we only needed one run, and the bunt is a one-run strategy, but it’s not easy with runners in the second and third because it’s a force in the third.

Anyway, we were still in a pretty good location, two on, one outside, just needing to run …… Grichuk hits the doubles, and the chance is over.

Jordan Romano scored a fine ninth point and surrendered a double with a softly hit ball by two differences. Gurriel almost caught it. Maybe it should have been caught, but it didn’t matter. Romano got out of play.

Trevor Richards started tenth and Manfred Man second. He got two strikes. Then softly hit the single, which Gurriel grabbed low to the left. I was sure he would get a runner on the plate, but he threw the very first baseline. We needed a really good throw there. Richards walked to the next guy. and it was for him.

Adam Cimber is coming in. Do you remember how good he was right after we got him? Well, he hasn’t been lately. Cimber gives up a couple more hits and a couple more running points. We really need Cimber to figure things out again.

We did nothing with the bats at the bottom of the tenth, and another frustrating game ends.

I wouldn’t say I liked the bunt idea, but that’s why we didn’t lose. We lost because once again a pretty average starter pot made us look awful. They need to find a way to hit these guys. The Tigers run two more average starting kicks against us. We have to learn to beat those guys.

Jays of the day: Ray (.354 WPA), Romano (.147), Gurriel (.140, should lose points on this throw) and Kirk (.093).

Absorption: Grichuk (-563, 0, 4, 1k and 2 doubles, ground balls), Marcus (-161, 0 for4, 2k) and Richards (-149, indeed, if Gurriel had made the throw we all expected , he would have been out of the lot).

Grichuks ’number is pretty amazing for the blow. I would like to sit with him in the game. Try Otto Lopez there?

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