Caitlin McGrath

Yeah, you and I were talking before we came on and it seemed like we were going to get kind of a dud of a game, honestly.

Like it felt like this was going to be forgettable.

You know, the Blue Jays didn't have a hit for the first few innings.

And then all of a sudden the game just changed in that eighth inning.

And it actually ended up being one of the more thrilling games of the year, honestly, like it.

I know Chris was talking on the broadcast and maybe it is one of those games that turns the season around as they continue to kind of hover around the 500 mark.

Yeah.

Yeah, and he deserves a ton of credit for being able to step into a tricky situation.

I mean, overall in the season, stepping into a tricky situation where Hoffman's struggling, Hoffman kind of gets removed from that closer role.

and then you have to step in.

That's not easy to do.

We all know the ninth inning is the toughest inning to get through, and as you say, Varlin is a guy that doesn't look like he's phased by anything, so he's kind of the perfect prototype pitcher to go and be able to step into the closer role immediately and just take off running, but...

I think he deserves a lot of credit for being able to do that and to kind of just be that guy, that reliable guy that doesn't get phased by whatever situation gets put in, including getting put into a situation where you got to get six outs and the bases are loaded.

And for him to get out of that situation in the eighth inning with just giving up one run, I think that was best case scenario.

I mean, obviously, obviously like getting no runs would be best case scenario, but

In that situation, we have no out.

Bases are loaded.

You take the ground out.

And that was a close play at second as we saw there.

But he came in and just dominated, honestly, the Cubs.