Sam Blum

So close to being able to talk about an actual winning streak and being above 500.

Close doesn't cut it.

There's a catcher's interference.

There is an unavailable closer.

There is a Joey Loperfito Italian of the Year revenge home run.

And there is some...

Very woeful situational hitting, big spot hitting from the top of the Blue Jays lineup.

They lose 9-7 in 11 innings.

It was also Shane Bieber's 2026 debut, which didn't go particularly well.

You can obviously nitpick with that anytime you get down early, anytime there's back-to-back-to-back problems.

home runs allowed and your starter doesn't get out of the fourth, maybe you are patient with Shane Bieber given it was his first start of the season and second year removed from Tommy John and things like that.

You may also just prefer to look at the position player side where they only managed to put up four until the extra innings portion of the game, or six rather, sorry, until the extra innings portion of the game.

And I say only because there were a lot of opportunities to do more damage.

They went...

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

3 for 14 with runners in scoring position.

13 men left on base.

And 9 runners left in scoring position.

So that LOB number is a lot worse when you see that 9 of them were left standing there in scoring position.

So this has been a recurring topic.