David Adler

They did also go one for nine with runners in scoring position and left 13 guys on base.

Left, I think, six of those or seven of those guys on base in runners, in scoring position, rather, left them on base.

What did you see in the at-bats where they did have those opportunities?

And it's such a contrast to Saturday where they got back into that game by way of the three-run home run to be back to.

And again, you get credit for moving the runner along and hitting the sack flies and stuff.

But that gap that is there more often than not for this team in terms of turning that pressure that you're putting on pitchers into a big inning instead of, you know,

us leading the show talking about, you got the starter out early, right?

And I think the other important thing in that is, and look, you don't pick your sequencing.

You don't choose when you get the hits, but getting that traffic on early in innings, you see it pay off yesterday when three of your runs come by sacrifice fly, where if you're building those innings late, I, you,

can't hit a sacrifice fly, they would be the third out.

So the fact that the Jays were able to do a job like that from a pitcher's point of view, we've heard hitters talk before about like, yeah, it's not like that easy to hit a sacrifice fly, even though it's like making out.

You've got to hit it through a deep part of the park, and you've got to get it in the air.

From the pitcher perspective, when you are in a sack fly situation, and it's a close game like this one.

Obviously, you're up 8-3.

Who cares about a sack fly?

But in a situation like that, are you mindful of that?

Are you pitching differently to try to avoid that?

Or is it kind of just, well, if you get a fly ball, you hope it's shallow enough?

So a couple of these instances where there was traffic, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

came to the plate.