After the stink of last Wednesday’s dinks and dunks from the array of lefty-swinging Cleveland Guardians teaming up for a shellacking of George Kirby lingered all week, today felt like a good day to bet on a bounceback outing. A righty-heavy Toronto lineup that has also struggled at the plate, five-run output last night notwithstanding? Surely a good opportunity to evoke Kirby’s sparkling season debut. He even cruised through the first two innings, getting Bo Bichette on a double play to end the first - proving Jorge Polanco’s one-out error moot - and kicked it up a notch in the second, working around a two-out knock from Cavan Biggio while setting both Justin Turner and Davis Schneider down on called third strikes.
Mariners sputter, stutter, and scutter to 5-3 loss against Blue Jays
