Ernie Clement

Before this game, you and I talked about Friday's win and how it was a positive for the Jays to end their losing streak and try and establish some momentum, but it didn't inspire confidence in the lineup because they only had a couple hits.

They didn't have any extra base hits in that game, and so it was really driven by elite pitching and thin margins.

This was not that.

This was the opposite of that.

This was a game where, as you mentioned, a couple players with four plus hits, three balls go over the wall.

There was a time in the middle of this game where it felt like the Angels' failures was going to be what drive the Blue Jays' success.

And they're going to kind of back into a win here because of all the incompetence, which I'm sure we're going to get into over the course of the show.

But then you have to give them credit.

Then they actually put their foot on the accelerator.

They started hitting the balls over the wall.

They started driving it.

It's pretty hard to complain about 14 runs on 20 hits, even if a couple of them are kind of softball hits against a position player at the end.

Earlier on, I was thinking about Addison Barger as a bit of a sentimental favorite.

He comes back, he drew a couple walks, had some good at bats, and that unbelievable outfield assist.

He threw it over 100 miles per hour, the hardest throw of his career, and he's already been one of the harder throwers in all of baseball since he's come up.

But at the end of the day, it's going to be Brandon Valenzuela.

This was the first real offensive breakout we've seen from him on this level.

An impressive home run that also kind of broke the game open.

As I referred to before in the show, there was a moment where it was kind of Angel's silliness that was letting them dribble runs across the plate.

And then he hits that big home run and suddenly the game feels more or less out of reach at that point.