JTP: Runners Stranded & DJing At the Rogers Centre
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What happened in the Blue Jays game against the Braves?
Another bad one for the Toronto Blue Jays. This is Jays top class, Blake Murphy with you. Jays lose 7-3 to the Atlanta Braves yesterday. It's a fourth loss in a row. Things had felt a little better as they nudged back to .500 during that Orioles series, but dropped the Saturday game in the Jeff Hoffman ninth inning game. Have a bullpen day Sunday that doesn't go the way you're hoping for. Lose an understandable one Monday. You know, Bryce Elder, who... underlying isn't anything remarkable against Kevin Gosman, who you always hope to get the Kevin Gosman day. But that's an understandable loss.
How is the Blue Jays' offense performing this season?
It's a pretty straightforward one. And then yesterday, some of the shine comes off the job Patrick Corbin has been doing for you lately. The bullpen can't keep it close. And your bats once again struggle. This time against Grant Holmes, who from the outset really didn't have it. The Blue Jays failed to take advantage very early on when they get Grant Holmes' back against the wall. And then kind of allow him to settle in. I didn't even think he looked that good, honestly, once he quote-unquote settled in. But you really let him get off the ropes. If you missed it, it was a 7-3 final. The Jays in the first inning loaded the bases with nobody out. and only managed to get one run. And that's kind of, you know, the story of their season is, is all the injuries.
The story of the offense so far this season has not just been the inability to hit in big situations, which we talked about Ben Nicholson Smith yesterday, but it has been an inability to hit period. This is still a team with nobody posting even an 800 OPS. It is a team that ranks in the bottom 10 of the league in most catch all offensive metrics, or even if you don't want catch all most standard offensive metrics, they They don't strike out and they hit for an okay average, but from an OBP, from a slug, from a pop, from a weighted runs, creative plus, however you want to chop it up, this is a bottom 10 of runs. If you want to talk runs and really simplify it, it hasn't been a particularly good offense.
And that is really, really glaring. when you get big situations early in games and aren't able to take advantage.
What is the significance of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s strike challenge?
A couple games ago in the Bryce Elder game, the Jays had two instances where they got a couple runners on and weren't able to do much damage with it. There was the second and third with nobody out that only resulted in one run. There were a couple situations in the Marlins series, if you want to go back that far, when they had a chance to do even more damage on that 10-7 stretch where they had 17 games in 17 days. There were a lot of situational hitting issues during the home part of that 17-game stretch. There was a Sunday where I think they went 0-10 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 guys, or maybe I have those backwards. There was the first game of the Marlins series. That wasn't particularly close, but they missed a bunch of opportunities.
So if you are feeling like this team's issues are primarily hitting in big situations, hitting with runners in scoring position and things like that, the numbers back you up. To be at this point yesterday, over time, you will roughly perform to the level of your overall offense. But the Jays' overall offense isn't very good right now. So... You know, you load the bases out. You load the bases with nobody out in the first inning against a pitcher who has had a solid year but is, you know, a four ERA guy roughly. And you ground into a double play and then strike out So you only get one run out of that. That's a huge missed opportunity. That is a huge missed opportunity, obviously, for runs on the board.
It's a huge missed opportunity to have those two at-bats end so quickly. Sanchez was on the third pitch of the at-bat, and you get two outs out of three pitches there, and then Ernie Clements, a five-pitch at-bat. So even if you weren't going to put on a ton of runs, make Grant Holmes work.
What is the plan for Simeon Woods Richardson with the Blue Jays?
You've loaded the bases. There's nobody out. He gets out of that down eight pitches with only one run scored, and the run scoring on the double play ball –
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the Blue Jays game against the Braves?
0:12–0:49
2
How is the Blue Jays' offense performing this season?
0:49–2:13
3
What is the significance of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s strike challenge?
2:13–3:51
4
What is the plan for Simeon Woods Richardson with the Blue Jays?
3:51–5:22
5
How does DJ Richie Guzman create the atmosphere at Rogers Centre?
5:22–6:27
6
What are the expectations for the Blue Jays' upcoming games?
6:27–7:42
7
What insights does Meg Rowley provide about the Mariners?
7:42–8:55
8
What are the implications of the Blue Jays' recent roster moves?
8:55–1:39:57
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