Blake Murphy

He was really struggling to look like the hitter that he looked like last year and was really struggling to keep that OPS plus at an even league average at 100.

So it's great to see it.

It's great to see him, A, driving the ball the other way with authority.

He seldom does that.

And B...

handling elevated velocity.

Now, if Aaron Brooks is sitting 95, 96, 97, maybe he doesn't get to that pitch and maybe the outcome is very different.

But credit to him, he recognized that Brooks, even with 92, 93, is still going to try to attack him up with heaters.

And Varshow made the adjustment and handled 92.6 up above the strike zone and kept fouling it off, fouling it off until he got one that he was able to drive.

And yeah,

It was, in I guess a couple of ways, kind of an unexpected counterintuitive outcome, him hitting elevated velocity the other way with authority.

But, man, did he ever need that?

And hopefully this can spark a stretch now for him, especially considering he's four and a half months out from free agency.

And, you know, kind of with each passing week where he's not the impact player that we know he can be, he's leaving millions of dollars on the table.

So, yeah, he has tremendous incentive, obviously.

uh to be at his best over the course of this season and the blue jays are going to need it

Well, I know Steve Pierce has two of them and I was the same week in the same week I was at that game against the Angels.

I was there with my old man and we were like, should we leave, you know, in the in the sixth or seventh?

And we had nothing better to do, obviously.

So we stayed and they mounted a seven run rally in the bottom of the ninth.