Ben Clemens

Over the next 18 games, they got about 12 of them in their own division.

You can gain a lot of ground.

You can also lose a lot of ground.

But you have a chance to have your own destiny in your own hands by winning these games, the ones that matter a lot.

Well, Toronto has always been one of my favorite cities, not only in baseball, but around the world.

It's a beautiful place.

The people are amazing.

And then you get a chance to play baseball in this great country.

So I've always enjoyed going there as an opponent.

And now I got a chance to be a Blue Jay.

So that was fun.

it's the only stadium that I ever played for where I got a chance to walk to the ballpark and no one really bothered me.

I mean, there'd be a ton of people out on the streets and some people would say, hello, someone take a picture, but that part of it was just so cool in itself.

And then now I'm with this organization that had had some success recently.

And some of those players are still there, but unfortunately,

Fortunately, we did have some injuries that we couldn't necessarily bounce back from.

Marcus Stroman was injured.

Josh Donaldson was injured.

Kevin Pilar was battling and doing his thing all season long, but it was kind of that change transition.

We had some optimism.