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Chapter 1: What was the outcome of the Blue Jays vs. Angels game?
All right, folks, just me solo tonight. Kevin Barker doing his Blue Jays central duty. Lots to talk about, though. The numbers, 416-870-0590. Star 590, 1-888-666-0590. The text line is open. 590, 590 is the text line. It is a winning edition of Blue Jays Talk with Jeff Blair. The Blue Jays shutting out the Los Angeles Angels 2-0. And taking the scissors to a four-game losing streak.
Let's get right away to the player of the game. The player of the game is brought to you by Capital One. Capital One giving Canadians credit for 30 years. And really no doubt about who the player of the game is for the Blue Jays tonight. Dylan Cease was masterful. 18 of 25 first pitch strikes. His four-seam velocity was up to 98.4. almost a half mile an hour more than his season average.
Seven innings pitched, five hits, ten strikeouts. Again, no walks for Dylan Cease as he was, well, he was overpowering. And as a matter of fact, when you look at the pitching in general in this game, cannot remember the last time we've seen a game with as much velocity, high-octane velocity from Blue Jays pitchers.
In addition to Dylan Cease, Jeff Hoffman hitting 100 miles per hour in the gun, Louie Varland hitting 100 miles per hour in the gun as well. Cease to Hoffman to Varshow. That was enough to make yet another night of limited offense from the Blue Jays hold up. Two runs for the Blue Jays on three hits. They managed two runs in a game in which the starter Reed Detmers walked six.
And they had another batter reach on catcher's interference. Six W's, six walks. And still only managing two runs against Reed Detmers. Both of those coming in the third inning. On Kaz Okamoto's RBI single. And a sacrifice fly by Ernie Clement. Not much going on offensively for the Blue Jays once again. But...
A victory, nonetheless, in the first game of a three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels. 4-1-6, 8-7-0, 0-5-90, star 5-91, triple A, triple 6, 0-5-90, 5-90, 5-90, as always is the tech line. Some other observations from this game. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., again, still waiting. for that signature game from Vladdy. A couple of walks, a run scored.
Had an opportunity with runners in scoring position a couple of times.
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Chapter 2: How did Dylan Cease perform in his latest outing?
Did not come through. Interesting, or I should say will be interesting to see if John Schneider says anything after the game. The seventh inning, runner on second base went out. Vladdy didn't run to first base on a ball that he thought was foul. you know, Vladdy's point of view from home plate is going to be different, obviously, from what
from what we have up here in the press box and what the TV shows. But it did not look as if it was a 50-50 fair or foul ball. Nonetheless, Vladdy just stood at home plate. He did go down the tunnel carrying his bat afterwards. But again, not a great night offensively for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. But the Blue Jays somehow... The Blue Jays somehow... managing to squeeze across a couple of runs.
Eddie in Fort Erie. You're on Blue Jays Talk. Hey, Jeff.
How you doing tonight? Doing good, man. Good to hear from you. Thanks. Good to hear from you, too. I have a couple of things I want to say. First of all, Dylan Cease, what can you say? He is unbelievable. I mean, second time facing the Angels, I was interested to see how he was going to attack them, knowing that they faced them, you know, back in Anaheim.
But he just attacked, attacked, attacked, and the Angels could not get to him. So that was a great, great outing. And I'll never forget, like, when I first heard that he was signing with the Blue Jays, I remember calling the station when it happened. I was just shocked as anybody because, you know, I didn't hear ā that the Blue Jays were interested in him.
But you know why they gave him all that money to stop a losing streak like this, because it was rough. But very happy they did. And I got to say another thing, my other comment, I loved the confidence. Well, I don't know about confidence, but I thought it was interesting to see Schneider allowing Hoffman to face Trout two men out.
A base open, knowing that Trout could have tied the game, and he got him right there. That was an interesting call by Schneider. And you know what? Just one other thing. I just want to say one thing about tomorrow. I am interested to see the matchup between Yosavage and Trout.
You know Yosavage has that big overhand delivery, and most of his pitchers are low, and you know that Mike Trout is a good low-ball hitter. I'm interested to see how your Savage will attack, uh, trouts and hopefully keep the pitches up high. It's just like, uh, ceased it tonight and, and kept it away as well.
That, that Hoffman did, you know, Eddie, I appreciate the call. It is a, uh, it's an interesting observation and Jeff Hoffman. Look, we talked to John Schneider about Jeff Hoffman today on Blair and Barker. And John had a funny line about, uh,
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Chapter 3: What impact did Jeff Hoffman and Louis Varland have on the game?
seeing pieces fall into place with this Blue Jays bullpen. Louis Varland, American League Reliever of the Month, he's now 5-for-5 in save opportunities. Again, he went about his business very quickly, very efficiently. That's the type of voting you want from your closer. It leaves them in line to pitch tomorrow if necessary.
Again, if you're the Blue Jays, this is all about winning series right now, and as long as you're not going to be scoring a lot of runs... It stands to reason that you're going to need to rely on your pitching. And what we saw from Jeff Hoffman today, and I heard Chris LaRue talking about this, about the possibility of Tyler Rodgers or Jeff Hoffman.
Again, with Tyler Rodgers, you have to remember you are going to get lots of action. There are going to be balls in play. You are not going to have that possibility anymore.
necessarily of striking out a guy with a runner on third and less than one out that's something that Jeff Hoffman gives you and yes you know Dylan sees to me obviously obviously the player of the game tonight you could have made a case you could have made a case if you really want to do for Jeff Hoffman that at bat with Mike Trout getting him out on a slider and he and he shook he shook to the slider getting him out on the slider a big big at bat for Jeff Hoffman and um
I've talked about this a lot this year, Eddie, and with other people. They've got enough in the bullpen right now that John Schneider will be able to figure it out in any given night. There are going to be nights where the bullpen is going to give it up. That is going to happen. especially if the offense isn't scoring a lot of runs.
But right now, with Jimmy Garcia possibly in the way back at some point, it's pretty clear that the Blue Jays have a nice set of options in the bullpen. Again, cannot say enough, cannot say enough about how Jeff Hoffman made everybody's job a little easier by taking the approach he has taken to this situation. 416-870-0590, star 591-888-666. 0-5-90.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did the Blue Jays offense face during the game?
The Blue Jays have beaten the Los Angeles Angels 2-0. We'll get to some comments from the skipper John Schneider later on. Dylan Cease as well. A terrific night. A terrific night for Dylan Cease. Kind of, I think, maybe, you know, we've talked a lot to Pete Walker in our show. We've talked a lot to John Schneider in our show.
John Schneider mentioned today Dylan Cease trying to find his way, right? Trying to find that balance, making that tradeoff. 12 strikeouts over five in the third innings. Would you take that or would you rather have seven strikeouts over seven innings or eight strikeouts over seven innings? I think Dylan Cease has said that he is aware of that.
And even though, as my friend Kevin Barker would say, sometimes you want to let the horse run free. I think Dylan Cease has adopted the idea that if I'm good enough, that if I can stay in the game for seven innings, I'm going to leave with my fair share of strikeouts. My ERA is going to be good. If Dylan Cease wants to get back to a guy who can win Cy Young awards,
He's not going to do it giving you five and a third every timeout. He's just not. So kudos to Dylan Cease for, you know, taking, I wouldn't say taking advantage of this opportunity, but kudos to Dylan Cease for understanding what this organization needs him to do and going out and doing it. And you know what? This is what you want from your ace. This is what you want from your stopper.
Kevin Gossman, obviously still the ace in this staff by reputation and by reputation. And by longevity. But Dylan Cease has got a big contract. Dylan Cease is going to be your ace going forward. And nights like this are why the Blue Jays gave Dylan Cease. All that money. Lots of text to get to. Tommy in Edmonton. I'm a little sad that nobody asked John how Nathan Lucas is doing in his recovery.
He was swinging the bat great after getting his vertigo under control, but it feels like he's been forgotten about. I mean, not really, Tommy. Every day I know that the reporters ask about Nathan Lucas. John gives his updates. I know Ben Schulman made the point today that Nathan Lucas is running, and
Chris LaRue also mentioned that the Jays have a decision to make tomorrow when they activate Addison Barger. From where it stands right now, it looks very much like Lenine Sosa could be the odd man out. He doesn't have any options left. but he is a right-handed bat that can play second base. Unfortunately, he's not necessarily what you'd want in the outfield.
Davis Schneider, although he's scuffling, Davis Schneider gives you that utility of playing in the outfield and also playing at second base. And even though Addison Barger's a lefty, and you might say to yourself, okay, well, if you're bringing a lefty in to keep that balance, what about sending Yohendrik Paniango out?
Again, Yohendrik Paniango tonight, a pinch hit, one of the toughest things to do in sports. And I just don't know how you send him down. You know, I understand John Schneider's talked about it's about production. It's about runway. It's about will we be able to give the guy at bats? I mean, all of these things factor into it.
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Chapter 5: How is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. contributing to the team currently?
But I would, just because the focus has been on Addison Barger, I wouldn't necessarily say, well, I can guarantee you that Nathan Lucas, you know, certainly isn't out of the picture. John Schneider mentioning today on our show as well that, you know, when you get Nathan Lucas back, you get that left-handed bat and you're absolutely right.
To the texter's point, he seemed to have turned the corner when he suffered his injury. Claudio in King City. This game was way closer than it should have been. Outstanding performance by Cease in our offense. Had all kinds of chances to get that big hit to break open the game. Props to Alec Manoa.
Couldn't have been easy to have his first MLB appearance in two years here against his old teammates. Alec Manoa getting into it a little bit with Jesus Sanchez after that final out of the eighth inning. I don't think necessarily any harm done there. But, yeah, look, we've talked about this.
And I was, frankly, a little surprised at the number of boos Alec Manoa got when he came out to pitch today. It was a mixed response, but the boos ended up drowning out the cheers towards the end. And, you know, I hope Alec Manoa just, you know, I got nothing against the guy. I hope he goes on and, you know, puts together a major league career for himself.
And quite frankly, it was good to see him back. It was good to see him back on the mountain. He looked a little different than we've seen from him in the past, just in terms of his delivery. But, yeah, I'm sure there were a lot of thoughts going through his head. coming out here in this building in a close game. It wasn't garbage time. It was a close game against his former teammates.
Keenan from Winnipeg. Man, Cease is fun to watch, and he won them this game pretty much by himself. A win is a win, but the Jays hitters better be buying him some high-quality shampoo for that flowing hair. Daniel and Barry, you're on Blue Jays Talk.
Hey, how's it going?
Good, man.
Hey, I just want to talk about how Okamoto has really turned everything around. Like, I kept on laughing at everybody. 20 games into his career, people were already saying a bust, and now if he keeps on playing the way he's playing, I think he's going to be AL Rookie of the Year. Like,
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Chapter 6: What strategies does John Schneider implement for pitching?
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