Sho Ali

As high as the home run was yesterday, this one was probably as low as you'll get launch angle-wise.

But still, Okamoto, the only run coming off his bat early in this one.

But I want to get to, I think, what a lot of people are going to point at as the, at the very least, the highest pressure point of this game, which is asking Ernie Clement to bunt with, what, runners on first and second, nobody out, bottom of the eighth inning.

Clement, obviously one of your better hitters just overall at the plates, and, you know, he tries to lay down the bunt, and then he just pops one up directly right up in the air, and it gets recorded for an out, and then you kind of let the Yankees off the hook.

I mean...

We can get into that situation in particular, which, again, didn't really love it, truth be told.

But at the same time, it was almost emblematic of the entire game in that when I use the term let them off the hook, I feel like that's the best way to describe this game because it felt like, to your point, this is a game that was right there for the taking, and the Jays just time after time after time, especially on offense, really did let this Yankees team off the hook.

I don't think they played the best baseball you'll ever see today.

The other thing, too, is if we stick in that eighth inning and, again, didn't love, for all the reasons you just laid out, did not love the ask of Ernie to Buntz.

And, I mean, look, does he wear it at 1% at the very least because it wasn't a

very good bunt.

I mean, maybe a little.

Well, and on top of that, that aside, and again, I'm not ignoring it because, again, I did not like that decision by John Schneider.

I mean, you have, what was it?

I guess it was, yeah, bases loaded with Cruz on the mound and Charles McAdoo, who I think I've generally liked in a very, very small sample size.

McAdoo comes up to the plate.

Even with decisions they've made with guys in terms of who's getting a rest day, who's not,

It's a little maybe like a scene, I don't know, could have been an Alondra Kirk hitting in that, pinch hitting in that situation.

I mean, maybe Vladdy certainly as well, but given that Vladdy barely moved off the end of the bench and was in his street clothes, quote-unquote street clothes, in his hoodie for most of today's game, I'm guessing he was just off today.

He was just like down.