Caitlin McGrath

Sometimes, you know, you have a bad challenge here and there.

You just have to wash that and still be able to identify when you see those pitches that should have been called a strike and be able to challenge that and get that pitch for your pitcher because that's going to help.

And for the entire team, obviously, because, you know, midway through the game, we thought...

Is it going to come down to that?

Are we going to be talking about that all the way through Jay's talk?

Obviously, as you point out, a lot of stuff happened late in this game, turned things around for the Blue Jays, but it could have been a game-defining play.

Yeah.

And that's good to point out because that...

Could be a moment or probably is a moment that's a little bit overshadowed in this game because of what the Blue Jays did on the offensive side and then what Louis Varlin came in and was able to do in the last two innings.

But I do think that that was a really important moment for Hoffman.

It kind of shows you the progress that he's made because maybe earlier in the season,

he does unravel a little bit.

So the fact that he was able to respond after losing the zone a little bit and was able to kind of take that mound visit from Pete Walker and immediately get back in the zone and be able to get that strikeout to end the inning was big for him and was big for the Blue Jays because obviously what happened after that.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, and there's not a lot of availability because as we talked about in our pregame show, that there's not enough teams probably that are fully convinced they're out of it at this point, especially with the extra wildcard like we talked about.

There's a lot of teams bunched up there in that fight for the third wildcard spot, and there's just not a ton of teams that are totally out of it that would be willing to move a reliever right now because at the trade deadline and as we approach the trade deadline...

Top end relievers are going to be the hottest commodity.

Every team needs them.

Every team can improve in that area.

No, it's, it's tough to say at this point, but yeah, like it's, it's the market isn't quite clear yet in terms of what teams are going to be sellers outside of like, as you say, like an angels, the Red Sox probably, but probably a few other teams need to fall out of it a little bit for them to be willing to admit that they're going to be sellers at the deadline.