Blue Jays Bats Go Silent Again in Doubleheader Sweep
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Why did the Blue Jays get swept in the doubleheader and what went wrong?
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New game, same results for the Blue Jays. They fall five to one in game two of the doubleheader. The Yankees sweep the doubleheader, win the series at Yankees Stadium, and uh all of a sudden, it really is time to get the hell out of the Bronx, Mr. Blake Murphy.
Yeah, get out of the Bronx, get off the road, get back to Toronto, use yet another off day more productively, hopefully uh one and seven in their last eight, one and five on that road trip. Almost two weeks since they last scored four runs in a game. Things are looking pretty bleak considering like a week and a half ago we were hearing Bowden Francis and company uh after that Friday win against the Mariners talk about how everything felt different, everything felt pretty good. No longer grooving.
That's Blake Murphy. I'm Julia Kreitz. You are listening to Jay's Talk on the SportsNet Radio Network. The Yankees beating the Blue Jays five to one. Three hits on the day. for the Blue Jays or on the game rather for the Blue Jays, Blake. And, you know, again, just more of the same issues. The only extra base hit that they got was Anthony Santander's home run. We will talk about that as well uh during this program. But it's uh it's starting to get a little repetitive here, Blake. You you you know, you have Chris Bassett on the mound. He was pitching pretty well and I understand that uh you know things got a little out of hand In the sixth inning, but You look at Clark Schmidt, the the the starter for the Yankees coming in
With all sorts of trouble in his first couple of starts of the season, he issues four walks, including two in the first inning to Beau Bachet or rather to Vladimir Gru Junior and to Santander. The Blue Jays come up empty and listen We we spoke a little bit about the fact that the Blue Jays were facing a lot of elite pitchers early on, and that may have obviously contributed to the slow start to the offense. There was a little bit of weather involved. Uh there was a lot of talk about process and about just finding your swing, making good swing decisions. When you're in a game like this, Blake, when you kinda have the starter in the ropes. uh early on in the first inning and you're trying to mount something, you're trying to get out of there with a win and and with a series win, for the Blue Jays to come up empty again in those spots, it's uh it it really begs the question of where does this team actually go from here and and how much more is there really to this lineup?
Because if this is if this isn't the team's identity, We're still, you know, waiting for them to figure that out. And now what we're seeing is not even the singles are are are coming by. Not even those hard fought bats are necessarily coming by. Uh you look at what Santander did today, very encouraging in that second game, but still, it's not at all where we expected this team to be at this point in the season.
And with Santander, it's it's one hit, right? I know he had a walk as well, and it's a beautiful looking lefty swing when he does get into one for a home run. But it kind of as Ben Shulman announces that home run, it kind of puts everything into perspective where, hey, he's now tied for the team lead with three home runs. It's April twenty-seventh. They're in second to last in home runs. They are now in the bottom five in the league in runs per game. Overall slugging percentage. If you care about stacking singles and doubles and things like that, there's not a thing that they're doing particularly well offensively anymore. And I will push back on one thing that uh you you know, you said uh it's a repetitive.
Uh I we got today two games, and we got one of each variety of Blue Jay games so far this year. We got the there are 11 hits and they can't string anything together, and they go, what was it, one for thirteen or something like that with runners and scoring positions. Position, two for thirteen, sorry. Uh with runners in scoring position. And then they have the game where they can't get any hits. So there's no there's no problem with runners in scoring position because you're not putting anyone in scoring position.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the Blue Jays get swept in the doubleheader and what went wrong?
0:07–4:31
2
How did Chris Bassett’s solid start unravel in the sixth inning?
4:31–8:37
3
What does Anthony Santander’s big swing tell us about the Jays’ offense?
8:37–13:09
4
Why are the Blue Jays struggling to generate any offensive momentum?
13:09–16:38
5
How are lineup decisions (e.g., moving Springer, Barger’s role) being debated?
16:38–21:01
6
What impact do the Yankees’ elite pitchers have on Toronto’s slow start?
21:01–24:44
7
Why are fans urging a panic button on the Jays’ hitting woes?
24:44–28:49
8
What are the prospects for the Jays’ rotation and lineup moving forward?
28:49–31:12
Speakers
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