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Chapter 1: What happened in the Blue Jays' weekend series against the Orioles?
All right, welcome to Blair and Barker for Monday. A three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies on tap starting tonight at the Rogers Center. Should be fairly easy picking for the Blue Jays in this series. Christopher Sanchez off one of the best runs in baseball history. Zach Wheeler and Jesus Lozardo against Patrick Corbin. TBA. possibly Dylan Cease and Trey Savage.
The Jays coming off a 6-4 win, back-to-back 6-4 wins, actually, over the Baltimore Orioles. They've made a roster move today. DFA and Yariel Rodriguez. Drum roll. Don't get too excited because no one's going to claim him. He'll be back in Buffalo, and you can bet your ass he'll be pitching for the Jays in August at some point because that's the way this thing works. So don't get all excited.
Tommy Nance has been added to the roster.
Chapter 2: How did Ernie Clement dodge Gunnar Henderson's tag?
Put you down for undecided.
I mean. I mean, he's a piece. He is a piece. There's not much doubt about that. That's what he is. He's depth. Yeah. Anyhow. You know they won two out of three, right? Yeah, they did. Be excited about it. No, they did win two out of three. They showed a little fight yesterday. Yeah, I thought John Schneider had two really good games.
Chapter 3: What insights did former umpire Dale Scott share about base running rules?
People out there were critical of him using the bullpen, essentially hamstrung.
uh for much of the uh for much of those two games and and you know using jeff hoffman um we got to talk you know we're going to be joined by pete walker lee i mean there's a crap done to talk about that's good so let's leave the jeff hoffman discussion aside for a minute because i want to talk about ernie uh clement and brandon valenzuela uh and and
And basically the guys who did the heavy lifting in these two wins, Jimenez, Okamoto as well, but I would think Clement Valenzuela. You could throw Penango in there. I mean, basically half the damn lineup, unfortunately, and maybe not unfortunately, but the bottom half of the lineup.
That was, all kidding aside, that type of win yesterday was really kind of reminiscent of what the Jays did a lot of last year. The only thing that was missing was Vladdy would come through with a double every now and then last year.
But, yeah, no, hey, we said this is a nine-game homestand against the Orioles, who were playing pretty well, the Phillies, who are playing really well, and the Yankees, who are still the Yankees. I'm happy with 6-3, and they're right in course right now to go 6-3.
Yeah, look. At least six and two. Look, you know that thing that John always says about out-teaming the other team is a big deal, right? Pena, you mentioned him in the sixth inning there. His at-bat before that, he'd gotten out on a change-up in the same count.
Looked to me like, you know, he'd made a little bit of an adjustment, let the ball travel a little bit more, get to your big finish, elevated change-ups.
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Chapter 4: What changes did the Phillies make with Don Mattingly as manager?
They go to the moon. I mean, that's real simple. That's a BP heater. Every big leaguer should always hit that to the moon. You should never miss that. And it just seems to me like that little short, quick swing that he's got to get to the big finish, he'd be real hard to send down. Everybody else comes back, man alive. Just the things he can do with the little –
You know, short stride that he's got, the inside-out kind of swing, getting to the bigger finish. He can hit velocity. He's got a quick bat. That's a big deal. On the sixth inning, you know, we talk about guys not running balls out the first. Ernie did it. I mean, you know, that Gunner play where maybe he peaked, maybe he didn't.
Chapter 5: How has Cristopher Sánchez performed with his changeup?
But Ernie's always running to first base. Gunner doesn't make the play. He gets on first. Then he avoids the tag going to second. You know, we're going to – We're going to have Dale Scott on about that. Absolutely.
Okay, sorry, finish your thought because I want to ask you about that play. I'm sorry.
Go ahead. You know, I just think it's a collection of a bunch of guys, right? Okamoto had the RBI single, which is a big deal. After Ernie hustling, kind of passing the baton, making it a little easier for the guy walking to the plate, Jimenez with the two-strike double down the right field line. That's a big deal. Okamoto scoring for first. Last time you could say that.
Chapter 6: What impact did Orion Kerkering's playoff loss have on the team?
You can. I haven't. I don't know if I've seen it as him being a J. It's just little. You cut in the corner. You're scoring when you're supposed to score. It's that kind of thing. Lucas, the infield single off the pitcher. Jimenez scoring from second. Running with your eyes up. You don't need a coach to tell you to go. Because you're running with your eyes up. That's a big deal.
And then Valenzuela in the eighth inning. Add on runs. That's a big deal too, right?
Chapter 7: What are the key factors for the Phillies' postseason success?
John talks about that all the time. Don't stop scoring. Every time you walk to the plate, you're in scoring position. And... You just kind of like the way they didn't give up. After the fifth inning, the fifth inning was one of the worst innings they've ever had.
That was not a good inning.
It was not a good inning. And to come back the way they did in the sixth inning just shows you a little bit what they're starting to do a little bit against a decent team. I know the Orioles are what the Orioles are. But, you know, Shane Baugh is nothing to sneeze at. Like, he was doing some things. He was... Throwing it where they weren't looking and adding and subtracting.
The elevated fastball seemed to give them a little bit of trouble.
Chapter 8: What should Blue Jays fans expect from Kevin Gausman's pitching?
So in the sixth inning, they did exactly what they were supposed to do. And then you turn it over to a bullpen. That was missing some pieces, but you get it to Louie, kind of game over. And that's exactly what happened.
Yeah. I mean, listen, there were two. They had to come back from that game, come back to win that game, I should say. Boy, Saturday's game was not necessarily in the bag by any stretch of the imagination. And, you know, we'll talk a little later about Jeff Hoffman. I mean, Jay's fans, they do boo the moment. They do boo players. But, man, that was a –
Let's just say that most of the people in attendance at that game, I would say the majority made their views. You think they're done with Jeff? That's what you're saying? No, they can't be. The fans are. The Jays can't be. I mean, you can't be done with them. Not right now, you can't. No. No. You know? I mean, I don't think you're ever going to be done.
If you get your starting pitchers back, obviously there are going to be moves that have to be made, but you're still going to need somebody to pitch the sixth or seventh inning. And for me, Jeff Hoffman still has some utility there.
I know there are people out there who are probably wishing that he'd been DFA'd, but that ain't – I mean, I guess there's a world where that happens, but – Not right now. Not right now. No? No, I wouldn't think so.
Not some heavy lift to fix what's going on between somebody's ears. You know, that's not khaki related. No. You know, they've made some adjustments on how they're using the slider. You know, that's been a better pitch for him. I mean, occasionally he'll throw one where he shouldn't. It's a cement mix or somebody hits him to the moon. But that slider's been really good.
What John say, like two out of the nine outings, he's only given up runs in those. You know, it's just that one inning where when he gets a runner on base, how does he overcome it? And I think that's sort of the battle that Petey's going through.
We'll ask Petey about that when he comes on at 525, just about sort of when you've tried everything else and it's between a guy's ears, how do you fix that problem?
I don't know if he has the answer for it, but we're going to ask. We're going to be joined by Dale Scott, former MLB umpire, to talk about that play in the sixth inning yesterday with Ernie Clement and Gunnar Henderson. You know, first of all, there was a play later in the game where the Orioles were arguing because it was ruled that it was a Tyler O'Neal or somebody had run out of the base pass.
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