Blake Murphy

Yeah, definitely.

That was, that was manna in the desert, man.

Desperately, desperately needed.

You lose that game.

You squander that start from Dylan sees and it's full on meltdown time for whichever fans hadn't already to that point melted down.

We got to melt down.

Without that win, man, the Jays fall a season-worst seven games below .500.

As you said, they suffer a second straight sweep at the hands of the Rays and fall 11.5 games back of the division.

Would have gone 2-4 on the homestand heading into a road trip that will take them through the Bronx and have them playing...

against the yankees who are obviously playing really really good baseball and ultimately you lose that game and i think even the most like ruthlessly optimistic fans in the jays fan base are saying yeah it's not our year but now those fans they're laughing man they're putting up their feet they're smoking cigars at least until friday uh instead of another awful loss and and despite that dispiriting top of the 10th that set the table for another punishing defeat the jays get to aaron brooks obviously making his first mlb appearance since 2024

They load up the bases, and they finally get that big swing that has eluded them so many times early this season with the VAR show Grand Slam.

That Grand Slam, by the way, was the Jays' first and only extra base hit of the game, and we can only hope that that swing man can do for this team what Bo Bichette's pinch hit home run in Texas in late May of last year did for a struggling Blue Jays team, spark a winning streak and spark an extended stretch of strong play because this team, the 2026 Blue Jays,

really has yet to put together an extended stretch of strong play this season, which is troubling because we're two weeks out from June.

Yeah, it's enormous, man.

He needed that in the worst way.

I mean, he had had that one stretch, you know, about a month ago where he hit three home runs in a span of I think it was four games.

And it was like, oh, Varshow is going to be the Varshow that we saw last year where he was one of the most efficient home run hitters in all of baseball, albeit over just 71 regular season games.

And then the Varshow that he looked like in spring training, too.

And then...

That didn't happen right over the first six weeks of the season.