Rob Long

Morning, Blake.

Doing well.

Glad that we are able to come back here and talk about a Blue Jays bounce back win last night.

yeah 100 it's kind of weird honestly you know it's kind of one of these things that was like an identity point for the the 2025 Blue Jays was getting to get starters you know I think back to the stretch like coming out of the all-star break where they faced the Giants and and the Yankees and I believe it was kind of the Phillies around that time as well and you know they consistently knock off great starters Tarek Skubal was in that stretch as well and this year you know as you mentioned it's this Chris Sale start last night it's that Paul Skeen start um

or sorry paul paul scheme started a couple weeks ago and for them to you know kind of find their way to to attack these pitchers and and rack up a ton of hits you know maybe it is certainly a little bit of of a noisy thing you know for them to you know not necessarily find their slug against uh against against sale last night but you know be able to string together a bunch of hits and be able to chase him um you know after 100 and some pitches in in less than six innings is is

is really impressive.

And, you know, one thing that I was kind of looking at through, through the scheme start in the sale start was just kind of how pesky that they were with two strikes, you know, for, for sale last night at 16 at bats with two strikes and they get six hits with two strikes against schemes.

It was, it was seven hits with two strikes and just kind of like this thing that we saw the 2025 blue Jays that we just kind of haven't really seen this team do do this year in 2026.

So I, you know, kind of look at the way that they were able to, to string together at bats and, you know, be, be a tough out with two strikes, I think has kind of been, you know, a huge difference,

point for for when they are kind of facing these these high level aces and i'm not sure if it's something that about facing these guys that that has them lock in a little bit more what it is exactly but you know as you mentioned kind of off the top you know so some tough matchups coming up so if they're able to sustain that in the coming week here would be would be really big for them

Yeah, 100%.

I mean, last year, you know, we saw it through the postseason.

We saw it through the summer when they really got it going.

It was just, as you kind of mentioned, that frustration that they put on opposing starting pitching and really just kind of pitching in general.

And, you know, talking back to the Skeen starts, I was there on MLB.com or for MLB.com on Pirates coverage that weekend.

And, you know, Paul Skeen's after, you know, he's talking just that he just couldn't figure it out.

And, you know, kind of one of those tip your cap games.

And, you know, you kind of listen to...

to what Chris Sale had to say after the game last night too, and it was kind of similar to what they said from, or what Cam Schlittler said, kind of where he was talking about just chalking it up to being one of those days, you know, it seems like everything that they put in play end up being a hit.

And, you know, that's kind of the Blue Jays baseball that we've gotten used to over the past calendar year or so here.