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Chapter 1: What happened in the Blue Jays vs. Orioles game?
Well, Nick, the month of May is now officially over as far as Blue Jays baseball is concerned. Still a few more hours today, obviously, to enjoy your May outside of baseball. But today, the Jays closing out the month, the 9-5 loss versus the Orioles to wrap up a series split. Jays wrap May with a 15-14 record in the 29 games they've played in 31 days this month.
They are now back to where they were prior to this series, two games under .500 at 29-31. It was a grim one. I think about the person who texted us yesterday and said that they were never watching the Blue Jays again. They might have benefited from staying true to those words. I'm not sure if they did. There was a little bit of hope at the end of that one with Pignango hitting that huge home run.
Clearly the most impressive hit we've seen from him at the big league level. And putting a couple runs on the board. When you put five runs on the board, that's something to hang your hat on. A couple guys can say they had a decent day today, but This was one of the outcomes that was possible heading in.
Chapter 2: How did the Blue Jays perform in May overall?
You knew you were going to see Spencer Miles, who as good as he's been, you have to remember his humble beginnings and the fact he doesn't have a ton of experience. He was going to have a game like this at some point. And then the relievers that were essentially available were the lower leverage guys. And some of them did a good job like Adam Mako, but Hayden Younger, his...
MLB debut was not smooth by any stretch of the imagination, and nine runs is simply too much of a hole to dig out of. We haven't even gotten to the Jesus Sanchez of it all. An indication that this season has included a disproportionate amount of bad luck for your Toronto Blue Jays. That was something I simply have not seen before.
Fan throwing a ball into the field of play and injuring his wrist, seemingly not seriously, based on what we've heard about the x-rays, but... What an unlucky break for the Blue Jays. That is Nick Ashmore, and I'm Sho Ali. You're listening to Blue Jays Talk here on the Sportsnet Radio Network. We're also streaming on Sportsnet.ca and on the Sportsnet app. You can give us a call. 416-870-0590.
Chapter 3: What was the impact of Jesús Sánchez's injury?
1-888-666-0590. Star 590 on your cell. You can text us as well. 590-590. Name and location. The People's Text Line is always open. Standard messaging and data rates may apply. Yeah, I feel like I've seen... I feel like I've said the word cursed more in the last couple of months than I maybe have ever said in my entire life prior.
So, yeah, that Jesus Sanchez incident, which we'll get to very shortly, it was wild. I do think what makes games like this tough to swallow is that, you know, and we don't have to relitigate what went down yesterday, but 5-1 lead in the ninth inning.
So if you close out that game with a win, and today's game goes exactly the same way, and you lose 9-1, I know it ended up being 9-5 in the end, then you're still leaving Baltimore, I think, feeling a little differently about things, right?
I mean, you're leaving Baltimore at 30-30 instead of 29-31, but instead, you're leaving with that record, sour taste, and then it feels like you're leaving wins on the table. But you're also it's kind of like one step forward, one step back, which has kind of been the story of the 2026 Blue Jays season for a variety of reasons, right?
Not just because of the offense is scuffled or or which obviously it didn't necessarily today until the very end.
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Chapter 4: What went wrong with Spencer Miles' pitching performance?
But, you know. pitching you know injuries are a lot of reasons why but it's also maybe doubly daunting when the team next on the schedule are the 40 win atlanta braves who are by win losses the best team in major league baseball so it's a tough result there are things to like no question right i mean you said the pinango uh smash which was really nice to see 421 feet he hit that thing
Adam Macko, I want to get you as well. He looked good. But in a game like today, it does feel like the positives are a little narrower. The negatives outweigh the positives by a pretty significant margin here.
And like I said before, going into this game, you knew there was maybe a bit of an uphill aspect to this in terms of the pitching matchup where the Blue Jays had a run-down bullpen where the high-leverage guys had been used a lot. They were maybe available, but... Schneider was going to be reluctant to use him unless he really had to.
Kyle Bradish has been really good for the Orioles in recent starts. Clearly a talented pitcher who, if he had stayed healthy the last few seasons, is someone we'd probably be talking about significantly more. And he seems to be hitting his stride with the Orioles. Very efficient. He was able to throw a lot of strikes and get through innings without using a lot of pitches, which...
Prior to the game, we said one of the few weaknesses he'd had this season was that he'd been a bit inefficient.
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Chapter 5: What positives emerged from the game despite the loss?
He had walked too many hitters. Maybe the Blue Jays would be able to work some longer at bats and take some walks, either to boot him out of the game early or just put runs on the board. The exact opposite of that happened. He did exactly what he would have wanted to do, which was keep the pitch count down, use his outfielders and his defense behind him to record the outs.
And the Blue Jays really didn't threaten for the majority of this game. No, they didn't. And again, Pena goes home run aside. Wasn't a lot going on for for much of this game. Okay. So you mentioned Kyle Bradish player of the game, of course, brought to you by Capital One Capital One giving credit to over 4 million Canadians and counting. So what are we thinking? Are we are we making Kyle?
Are we breaking Nick Ashburn's rule of always or at least as much as possible going with the Blue Jays players Kyle Bradish the player of the game or will you give it to a Blue Jay today? I'm going to go with you, Hendrick Pignango. It was a roller coaster.
Chapter 6: How did the fan incident with Jesús Sánchez unfold?
It really was. You know, when the Blue Jays were down 9-0, I thought, I can't possibly give it to a Blue Jay. Like, there's no one. I was kind of thinking in my head, you know, Ernie Clement, he's got a couple of hits. He scored a run. It's not viable. You know, Andres Jimenez, I want to give some credit, some good defensive plays. He got his first ABS challenge win.
That's a big one for him because he struggled with that. But that would have been ludicrous at the end of the day to hand it to one of those guys.
Pignango, though, comes off the bench in a difficult circumstance, delivers a hit in his first at-bat, and then, of course, hits that three-run home run that not only added a little bit of intrigue to the game, still the Blue Jays didn't have much of a chance after it, but there was some thought there could be a comeback. And then also just the hit itself.
It was the most impressive hit we've seen from him as a Blue Jay. You mentioned 421 feet. That's the longest he'd ever hit the ball.
Chapter 7: What is the current status of Max Scherzer's rehab?
Kind of out of the ballpark, essentially, because when... He hit it. He really yanked it. It was pulled down the line. So normally when you see 420-something feet, it's over the center field wall or something like that, and it's not that dramatic, but it's right down the line. You're past the wall by dozens of feet there.
Really good stuff from Pignango, and he's someone who we talk about a lot needing to develop that power in order to become a really valuable player because he's kind of stuck in a corner and maybe not the best guy defensively. This was an example of what he can do from a raw power perspective. Yeah, it was a Tyler Wells cutter down and in, but it still caught the corner of the strike zone.
And I mean, Pena has such a violent swing too, right? I mean, again, we were talking about this in the pregame show. I'm not sure what his status will be for the major league team. given that, you know, he just prior to today had not really played a whole hell of a lot, right? So I'm curious what it looks like when the team continues to get healthier, especially now that Nathan Lucas is back.
But I mean, again, something we've talked about, something Barker has talked about a lot.
Chapter 8: What are the upcoming challenges for the Blue Jays?
When you're scratching and clawing for every wind, like you just need the guys who are best players suited to score you the most runs. And I mean, I feel like Pignango's skill set lends itself well to that ability. Maybe not on defense, certainly on offense. But yeah, I'm going to be curious to see what things look like for Pignango when the entire team gets healthy.
I know they're fond of seeing as well in Baltimore that when balls get out of the ballpark, it lands on Utah Street, which starts with an E, by the way, which I learned many years ago. But I wonder if that's where that ball landed. But yeah, that was a big one from him. Yeah, and you mentioned that Nathan Lucas coming back has really dug into his playing time.
He hasn't gotten a lot of starts recently. It'll be intriguing to see if Sanchez has to miss any time. It doesn't seem particularly likely because we're hearing contusion and we're hearing a negative on the fracture based on the x-ray that they did. So that isn't necessarily going to open up a huge lane for him all of a sudden.
At the same time, there is no better way to get your manager's attention than to display that level of power for a team that needs it. And so they will find ways to get him into the lineup as long as he's productive. All right, before we go to the phones and before we go to the text line, I want to get to this Jesus Sanchez thing because I do think out of this game,
in a game they lost anyways outside of Pinango and maybe even over this, frankly, the Sanchez incident with a fan in right field will almost certainly be the thing we talk about, especially with an off day tomorrow. I kind of think that's going to be the thing everyone's talking about. So top of the sixth inning, they showed, I think they showed, at least we saw it here.
They showed the CSI footage. The Sportsnet cameras showed it. I think they got it from the Peacock cameras as well, the ballpark. But either way, we got to see it. So you see...
sanchez i guess waggling his left hand his glove hand with his glove on his hand at the crowd in right field clearly interacting with fans in some fashion right now again you're watching it from like a billion miles away it's hard to see exactly what he's doing but uh and then you know moments later a ball flies out of the stands while after he had already turned away hits him on the right wrist his throwing hand and uh and then you know we saw the scenes he kind of drops his
glove his whole cradling his right wrist the team called it a right wrist contusion underwent precautionary x-rays according to the Blue Jays returned negative for a fracture so that's always extremely positive very curious to see what John Schneider says about this post game I mean it's hard to tell right because it's kind of
To me, my initial read of it was that maybe he was going back and forth with the crowd. And, you know, I'm sure they were heckling him to a certain degree. And maybe with his glove hand, he kind of did like the yapping motion, like the open and closing mouth motion with your hand. And then maybe someone thought he was calling for the ball. It was during a mound visit. I think it's a kid.
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