Jays Lose Kirk to Injury, Get Walked Off by White Sox in Extras
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What happened to Alejandro Kirk’s thumb and how will it affect the Jays’ catching depth?
All right, well, probably not what we expected when we looked at the Jays' schedule to see them sitting with having lost two or three to the Colorado Rockies and losing the first game to the Chicago White Sox. Good thing, though, is we're way too mature to overreact.
Yeah, my 20 and 11 is not looking great, is it? What does everybody like to say? It's early. It is early. How about that? It's very early. Right now, you got nowhere to go but up, I would assume. Well, that's not
true. You can go farther down.
Can you?
The Chicago White Sox have beaten Barker's Blue Jays today 5-4. 4-3, 5-4, whatever.
They lost. They
lost. Doesn't matter. In extra innings, Tristan Peters of Winkler, Manitoba. Driving in the winning run, Winkler, Manitoba's about seven kilometers away from Morden, Manitoba, which is my hometown. Okay. Shout out to Jake Peters, the pastor at the Winkler Mennonite Church and longtime, and I mean longtime, Winkler minor baseball coach.
Nice.
Sun walking off the Blue Jays.
Very cool. It is. That's a good one, Jeff. It is. That's very
cool. That's a positive stuff. Now let's talk about what we saw from the Blue Jays today in that loss. Look, the way, and we'll tap into John Schneider's post-game news conference to get the update on Alejandro Kirk, who basically took himself out of the game after kind of, how would you describe what he did in that pitch? He didn't really box it. Yeah, I think it was a foul tip that hit his thumb. Yeah. In a
bad place.
Yeah. Didn't look good. No, Kirk took himself out of the game right away. Tyler Heinemann comes in, makes an error on a bunt. That brings in a run, and then the White Sox win the game, as we mentioned, on Tristan Peters. On Tristan Peters. Single J's got a bit of a break scoring their run in extra innings when – There was a mistake by the first baseman for the White Sox. Caught the ball, but couldn't reach back. Couldn't get his foot
back. Yeah, I don't know if it was a mistake or not. I mean, it's a bad throw. You're in the big leagues. Hit me in the
chest. But he took his foot off the bag, and then he went to reach back for it. But Springer beat it up. Yeah, but I mean, I guess the starting point for the discussion today, because the bullpen was pretty good. It was real good. You know, the play with Heinemann, he's just come into the game at that point in time. Probably a smart decision to try to drop the bunt by Derek Hill. Probably, you know, I don't know if you could predict it, but I mean, new catcher in the game. He's got a runner on third. You know that the pitcher's worried about throwing a splitty, obviously, because... Ball goes behind him, the run's going to score. It's a good time to put pressure on a guy. But let's start talking first and foremost about Dylan Cease because the question with Dylan Cease, Kevin, has always been how does that stuff not translate into a better record?
And we've talked about... the lack of efficiency on the part of Dylan Cease. That is his, that's been his, his, his real, his real weak point in the past couple of seasons. And we caught, we kind of saw that today, just way too many pitches, way too many two and O counts. Didn't seem the, the Velo was there, but he just, he didn't seem to be comfortable almost, almost from, I was going to say almost from the get go. He didn't seem to be comfortable almost from the get go walk, uh, single. Then he, An error. One run in. He got out of that, but... just never really got the sense that he was really settled.
Yeah, it's surprising. A veteran guy like that's made that many starts, having a little trouble self-correcting. You know, it looked to me like staying in the lanes, had a little frontside pull. That's why you saw the ball's glove side. Whenever he's good, it's the two pitches glove side. He'll use the other three or four, you know, accordingly, other directions because he's dotting the two pitches to glove side. You know, he just was having trouble doing that. He didn't have 60% strike one, which is never a good thing. I mean, even if you're throwing that hard, it breaks that much.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Alejandro Kirk’s thumb and how will it affect the Jays’ catching depth?
0:07–4:51
2
Did Tyler Heineman make the right decision on the bunt play in extra innings?
4:51–10:30
3
Why did Dylan Cease struggle in his start and what does it mean for his season?
10:30–15:57
4
How is Jeff Hoffman being used in the closing role and what are the concerns?
15:57–20:23
5
What are the lineup challenges for the Jays, especially with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the bottom of the order?
20:23–24:15
6
How is Kazuma Okamoto adjusting to the MLB and what are the expectations?
24:15–29:18
7
What are the thoughts on Brendan Little’s recent outings and his role in the bullpen?
29:18–32:51
8
What does the Blue Jays’ bullpen look like moving forward and how might it affect the upcoming games?
32:51–36:16
Speakers
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