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Chapter 1: What was the outcome of the Blue Jays vs. Orioles game?
for the Toronto Blue Jays today. 6-4 in the end. The final score in favor of the good guys. The Jays even the series with the Orioles. Both teams pull even with each other.
Chapter 2: How did Ernie Clement contribute to the Blue Jays' victory?
Both teams 31 and 34 following today's game. It sets up a rubber match tomorrow with Kevin Gosman on the mound here at the Rogers Center. But lots to like from the Blue Jays today.
Yeah, you look at the final game of the Brave Series and then this game today taking out yesterday from the equation. That's 28 hits.
in those two games and when you're looking for positives and things that would really move the needle on this Blue Jays season it's the offense starting to get going and this game today was much more reminiscent of the Blue Jays team that we saw in 2025 where you got a lot of different contributions from many different guys up and down the lineup obviously Ernie Clement played a massive role in this game Jesus Sanchez with two hits Okamoto two hits
Chapter 3: What potential does Brandon Valenzuela have in the lineup?
Andres Jimenez with two hits. So it was really one of those days where you got contributions from everybody and it resulted in a big victory for a team that's looking really to go on another run here.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Spencer Miles' performance?
The People's Text Line. Always open. Standard messaging and data rates may apply. I mean, in a lot of ways... There are a lot of ways we could go. Maybe it's a better way of saying this. We could talk about some of the smiles. Maybe Andres Jimenez getting off the schneid, as Ben said earlier, with a couple of hits. Okamoto had a great game. I want to talk about Brandon Valenzuela as well.
I have some questions about how the team will handle him. But I do feel like it's hard not to start discussion of a game like what we got today without getting to Ernie Clement. I mean, Ernie Clement... was the man today. This was the Ernie Clement game, Jesse, right? I mean, three-run bomb off Kyle Braddish, a slider right down the middle. He just blasted that thing.
He had the triple as well later on.
Chapter 5: How is Kazuma Okamoto performing this season?
So he basically, I know it didn't happen today, but he got the two hardest parts of the cycle out of the way immediately. I was really hoping it would get done, but alas, we'll have to settle for the three-run bomb and a triple.
The gorgeous defensive play where he dives for the Pete Alonso grounder and gets it to Vladdy for the out with Tyler Rodgers on the mound who had already been brought in with a runner on. And then fittingly, he gets the ball. I mean, this is just how things seem tend to work, right? The ball finds you, but he gets the ball on the final play of the game, gets it to Vladdy again for the final out.
That wasn't an easy play either.
Yeah, it was.
He kind of spins to get that ball and then turns again and throws it to Vladdy. I mean, yeah, he impacted the outcome of this game. In every possible way, right? I mean, I have to check. I think he's still after... Again, I don't think it changes that much mid-game. But leading the team in slugging percentage. We talked about this in the pregame show. On pace for a career high in home runs.
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Chapter 6: What is the current status of Jeff Hoffman in the bullpen?
We had on the radio network, we played the... the Hazel interview with Ernie on the field, and he even referenced the fact that early in the year, he knew he had not been playing well defensively, which is somewhat uncharacteristic for him. He had kind of scuffled defensively for the early part of the year, and not so much anymore, right?
So kind of good to see every facet of his game coming together. I'll say this about Ernie too, Jesse. I don't think ā I'm fond of saying that there's this ā who's the fan favorite of the team, right? In years past, Ryan Goins, perhaps, Santiago Espinel, David Schneider. Kiermaier had a spell. Yeah, Kiermaier. Guys who I think ā
are obviously talented all these guys are but guys who I think there's like a little scrappiness to them and I think for a time it was Ernie I actually don't think you can count him as that anymore because I actually do think he's simply an outright star for this club like he is closer to the Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
tier of star than he is to a guy who's barely on the roster if that makes sense yeah I think you're right and I think he's probably if you're looking up and down the lineup for potential all-stars he probably would be the most deserving at this point you would think because if
Chapter 7: Why is the All-Star voting for Ernie Clement significant?
We talked in the pregame show about the drop-off that we had seen from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. from the postseason and the WBC to the regular season. Ernie, we saw obviously go on a historic run in the postseason, and he has picked up not quite where he was in the postseason, because that was absurd. He was Ted Williams.
But he has raised every single meaningful statistical category from a year ago. He's raised that to a new standard in 2026. Honestly, up and down his statistical profile, the average is almost 30 points higher. OBP is 15 points higher. Slugging is over 60 points higher.
His OPS, and we were talking about the OPS and how the Jays don't or at least didn't have anyone with an 800 OPS coming into the game.
Chapter 8: What challenges lie ahead for the Blue Jays in their upcoming games?
Valenzuela is now 794 and Ernie is 791. So they're getting close to having an 800 OPS. OPS hitter but yeah Ernie has just taken whatever he was using to catapult him to a new level in the postseason and he has utilized it during the regular season he was awesome today and a huge reason why they were able to get the victory
You know, your point about the All-Star thing is really interesting. All-Star voting is now open. I think it's bluejays.com slash vote, and it'll take you to the MLB website where you can vote for whoever you want. I mean, here's the other thing, too. I filled out my ballot today. I should have kept it so we could talk about it, but it disappears after you click send.
But if you look at the list of players, because MLB selects, I mean, it's just like second baseman, the list of second baseman for American League teams and National League teams. If you scroll down to the second base list of players, I mean, Travis Bazzana with the Guardians, having an alright year, but he also didn't play the whole season, right?
He was only called up for a very high draft pick, I should say. I think he was number one overall. But he...
only quote-unquote only got called up what like three weeks ago for a guy who was played all season if you look at the other names on this list i i struggle to think of who should be the second base starter for the american league at the all-star uh the all-star game this year outside of ernie clement he's the only 300 hitter i actually think it's i actually think it's a pretty easy decision if you're making an all-star battle yeah but zanna's the only one that has an ops over 800 but you mentioned it's not the same sample size as ernie clement and
And he's getting up there now. It's all pretty close because second base you don't usually get the pop numbers that you would get from some of the other premium offensive positions. But when you're looking at the numbers, Ernie Clement, at least offensively, would be a deserving All-Star. I think the question then becomes, has he been a little shaky defensively?
That's probably not what fans are looking for in an All-Star. It's more of the statistical offensive output. But I do wonder if, in our minds, at least from an analysis standpoint, has Ernie been good enough defensively to warrant being an All-Star?
Because certainly with the bat in his hands, I think he's been the one Blue Jay that you can make a very strong case for of being a representative of the All-Star game.
At least for position players.
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