Jays Suffer Another Bullpen Meltdown in Walk-off Loss vs. Reds
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Why did the Blue Jays’ bullpen struggle in the 5‑4 walk‑off loss to the Reds?
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Alright, well happy Labor Day, everybody. Talk about laborious. Hehehe talking about the Blue Jays bullpen. It is Blue Jays talk with Blair and Barker. A losing edition of Blue Jay stock five four the Cincinnati Reds coming back to beat. The Toronto Blue Jays. Another stroll through bullpen hell for John Schneider. And Pete Walker. What? That's right. It is. You nail that. It is. This is like This is we're at the stage. This is the we can't do anything but keep throwing, you know what, against the wall and hoping something sticks. That's basically where you're at with the Jay's bullpen. Yep. Uh the number to call. I want your take on this. Ooh. Your confidence level in the Jays figuring out And the Jays figuring out what they do out of with this bullpen.
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Airplanes flying by. A lot of that.
Yeah, there's a lot of that going on. There's a lot of that. There's there's a lot of there's a lot of, a lot of, a lot of a stuff going on. Uh all right, Kevin Barker. Five four, the Jays lose. Tommy Nance uh pushed into a Leveraged situation pushed into the ninth inning because of the unavailability of uh Jeff Hoffman, Sir Anthony Dominguez. God love Tommy Nance. He's done great work for them, but
I think
innings a different animal though. We know that. Um and and Brendan Little coming in and, you know, again, God love Brendan Little. He's done yeoman work this this uh this year as well. But he's just he's at this point in time, he's not good. I you can't put it any other way. Uh double single. Um and the Cincinnati Reds walk off walk off the Jays this after uh performance from Brendan Little yesterday where he makes a couple of errors. Now that's I understand that's not necessarily all the pitching, but uh yeah, the bullpen right now is just it's a it's a five alarm fire. It is an absolute one hundred percent five alarm fire.
Yeah, no, let's be real. Whenever the ball got stuck in the fence out there in the outfield, I looked at you, you looked at me and said, Man, alive, this is twenty twenty five. If they get out of this, there's another rainbow there's another rainbow part nut in their ass. That's what I thought too. And then all of a sudden Little went from one two to three two because he can't throw the breaking ball and have that thing be competitive. That's sort of where they're at, right? I mean, Tommy Nance, give him credit. He's been good enough. Good enough that John felt comfortable enough that When you don't have a couple of guys, yeah, you know, you can throw him to certain teams in certain parts of the lineup and hopefully g you know, get the performance that you're you're asking from him.
Just didn't work out. I mean Again, I just don't know how you fix it. This is why me and you took a little heat when we said before the deadline, you got to give up what you got to give up to get what you need to sort of solidify your role going forward. Meaning when you need him, you can go to him because he can get anybody out. They just don't have that guy anymore. So they're paying for it. This is sort of where they're at as a bullpen is now you're piecing it together. Hopefully you make adjustments. That matter. Hopefully, you know, Little's you're gonna use him. You're you're gonna use it. You're gonna use Sir Anthony. You're gonna use Sir Anthony. You're gonna use let's whoever You're gonna use whoever you
you need to use because that's what you got. Let's bring people up to date with with uh with what happened today. There I you know, John Schneider announced that Eric Lauer's in the bullpen, the Jays are going to a five man rotation, so Shane Bieber will pitch the will pitch the last game. of the Red Series. Um the Jays have called up Dylan Tate. Uh for reasons I haven't figured out, but they've called up Dylan Tate and uh 'cause he was
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the Blue Jays’ bullpen struggle in the 5‑4 walk‑off loss to the Reds?
0:01–5:14
2
Should Tommy Nance have stayed in the game instead of bringing in Brendon Little?
5:14–10:20
3
What did Chris Bassitt do in his quality start and how did it affect the game?
10:20–15:13
4
How did Bo Bichette’s late home run impact the Jays’ chances in the ninth inning?
15:13–20:20
5
What bullpen options does John Schneider have beyond Brendon Little?
20:20–25:42
6
How will Eric Lauer’s move to the bullpen and the shift to a five‑man rotation change the Jays?
25:42–30:42
7
Why are the Jays’ lineup decisions (Barger, Varsho, Vladdy) causing controversy?
30:42–35:19
8
What does the upcoming schedule mean for the Jays’ playoff push?
35:19–39:46
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