Well the Blue Jays did almost nothing offensively today as they didn’t even get a chance to fail w/a runner in scoring position. They managed just 3 1B’s and a BB and 2 of the runners were erased on DP’s.
It was an ok start from McGowan, still haven’t seen his best. Don’t like seeing 3 BB’s. Also he was leaving the ball up too much as he ended up w/5 outs via the ground and 11 in the air. Furthermore, 7 of the 8 hits were in the air to the OF incl. the HR he gave up.
I wouldn’t have brought McGowan out to start the 8th. Although he had only thrown 96 pitches, as mentioned above he was leaving too many pitches up in the strike zone. Plus you are only asking for 2 innings out of your bullpen and the 2nd man up in the inning was Teixera who already had homered and doubled off McGowan.
I was surprised to see Gotay trying to steal in the 5th w/Teixera at the plate. Unless you can be 100% sure you have it stolen, I don’t like taking the bat out of your clean up hitter who has the ability to hit it out of the ballpark or at least into the gaps, especially when he is hot. Even if Gotay is successful all it might do is have the opposition intentionally walk Teixera or at the very least pitch very carefully to him not worrying whether they walk him.
Moving onto the stats:
WG: Jones, Overbay (4)
ME(r): Blanco
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