Varland to the Rescue, Jays Win Series vs. Angels
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What were the highlights of the Blue Jays' win over the Angels?
Boy, well, Nick, if a game of razor-thin margins is what you want, then this game was for you. Tons of balls, finding gloves like magnets, whether it was Oswald Peraza catching a bunch of laser beams early on, Ernie Clement or Andres Jimenez with some highlight reel catches and double plays of their own. Ernie Clement with a ball placed inches inside them. the left field line. He also factored heavily on the game winning double play in the ninth inning. Jeff Hoffman got the blood pumping just in case you weren't awake enough this late in the week. In the end though, a 4-2 Blue Jays win their 10th of the year and they finally snap that series losing streak. They win the series in Anaheim, just their second series win of the year.
Yesterday, we talked about that win being unlike much of the rest of the Blue Jays season where everything went to plan. The starter was great. All the high leverage guys were smooth. Everything was nice and simple for the Blue Jays in that game. In this game, it felt a lot like a lot of the other games we've seen the Blue Jays play this season where they're really tight at the end of the game because the offense doesn't necessarily produce much, but they do get decent pitching. The difference this time is they were actually able to come up with a win at the end of the day. It was very much in question there when Jeff Hoffman had a bit of a disastrous outing.
How did Jeff Hoffman's performance impact the game?
Louis Varlin put a quick end to the proceedings. It was not a game full of electric offense. It was not a game full of dazzling individual performances, but the Blue Jays will take a series win.
Lots of ground balls in this game. I know you had your running tally of ground balls.
Here's the counter. 20 ground ball outs, single ground ball outs, four ground into double plays, and five ground ball singles in a game where there were not a lot of hits overall. So that's a pretty high percent. Five out of 13 hits for ground ball singles. Devastating day for the worms there in the stadium. Really dangerous stuff with the ball all over the infield dirt there. Yeah.
That sounds about right. That's a, that's Nick Ashbourne show alley here with you as well. You're listening to Jay's talk.
What role does Jeff Hoffman play in the Blue Jays' bullpen?
We're live on the sports net radio network. We're also streaming on sports net.ca and on the sports net app. You can give us a call 4 1 6 8 7 0 0 5 91 triple a triple 6 0 5 90 star 5 90 on your cell. You can text us as well. 5 95 90 name and location. The people's text line always open standard messaging and data rates may apply. And look, I think without looking at the text line, I'm going to do it in two seconds here when you start talking, but I'm going to guess I know what the vast majority, it says we have, I can see like a number that says how many texts have come in. Even before I look at it, there's a lot that I have not read. I'm going to guess most of them are Jeff Hoffman related based on how awake I feel and how awake I'm sure many of the listeners feel at this time of the night.
Yes, I believe there's going to be a lot of Jeff Hoffman related content in this show. And that is absolutely fair. Like this was an outing where he completely lost the handle. Now, was there a massive home run? Did they lose the game?
How did Louis Varland secure his first major league save?
No. Ultimately, things turned out OK for the Blue Jays. I know on the show yesterday, like I have said before, I probably have more time for Jeff Hoffman than most people do. I said I believe that Jeff Hoffman will be a contributor to this team and he will be good at a certain point. The question is, when is he going to become effective again? And will that be in the context of occupying the closer's role? And those are very much open questions at the moment because he has not been trustworthy or even close to it recently. Like hitting the batters in this game, To me, that shows something is just off on a different level than just being in a funk. In his career, Jeff Hoffman has hit 1.1% of hitters he's faced at the major league level.
So the statistical likelihood of him hitting two batters in a row based on his career average, about 1 in 10,000.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the highlights of the Blue Jays' win over the Angels?
0:06–1:25
2
How did Jeff Hoffman's performance impact the game?
1:25–2:11
3
What role does Jeff Hoffman play in the Blue Jays' bullpen?
2:11–3:07
4
How did Louis Varland secure his first major league save?
3:07–4:20
5
What can we expect from Patrick Corbin moving forward?
4:20–5:31
6
What contributions did Eloy Jiménez and Lenyn Sosa make in the game?
5:31–6:34
7
How do injuries affect the Blue Jays' lineup and strategy?
6:34–7:29
8
What are the implications of the Blue Jays' recent series win?
7:29–45:01
Speakers
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