Toronto Blue Jays (50-43) @ Boston Red Sox (48-45) - July 22-24

[LBJKB24MJ23]

Why is Tapia not higher up in the order?

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Red Sox look so bad this series with all those errors How were they in the wildcard race ?
Blue Jays looking good in the sweep. Bring the Yankees and Rays

They just beat up on scrub teams this season. They're 12-28 against division opponents lmao. Haven't won a single series against them.

[polo007]

Blue Jays stay hot on a steamy Sunday to beat Red Sox and complete sweep - Sportsnet.ca

The conditions were pretty similar during Sunday’s 8-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox, completing a three-game sweep sure to send the Fenway faithful deep into tantrum-land. A heat advisory was in place, the temperature was 35 C at first pitch and peaked at 37 C, although the humidity, mercifully, was only at 29 per cent.

Still, the heat was severe enough that Blue Jays players, especially starter Ross Stripling and catcher Danny Jansen, were told to pre-hydrate the night before, water and cooling ammonia towels were stocked in the dugout and the up-and-downs for pitchers were closely monitored.

Stripling, for instance, went only four innings of two-run ball on 62 pitches, although the heat wasn’t the only thing he had to grind through.

“It’s funny, I was talking with Trevor Richards (who threw 1.2 innings) after his outing, we were more concerned with the wind,” Stripling said. “The heat, I’m from Texas. That’s hot, don’t get me wrong. But I’ve pitched in heat all my life. I don’t think that bugged me as much as the wind. When you get a crosswind, it just messes with your stuff. If you look at Trevor’s changeups and my changeups, a lot of them were kind of straight, even like fizzling in the strike zone. Some of them even cut, which for me and him is very rare. So we were dealing with that actually more than the heat.”

Still, interim manager John Schneider exercised caution with Stripling, knowing that four innings in this weather could be as draining as far more in better conditions. He also wanted to get more of his relievers back on the bump with an off-day Monday and he did that with David Phelps, Tim Mayza, Yimi Garcia and Adam Cimber behind Stripling and Richards.

Based on his own experiences, Walker knew the day would be challenging for everyone no matter how it played out.

“The difficulty when it’s this extreme, you can’t go to any part of your jersey to dry off. Everything is wet and it affects grip on the ball,” said Walker, now the team’s pitching coach. “Long innings can be detrimental because if you’re out there, 25 to 30 pitches, it can have an adverse effect for the following inning. So you want to try to have quick innings. You want to limit your warmup prior to the game. You want to try to stay cool between innings. But it is not easy.

“One hundred pitches in regular conditions is probably 75 to 80 in these kinds of conditions,” he added. “It definitely takes it takes its toll on a pitcher.”

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[SharoneWright]

A series we'll still remember in 10-20 years.

[GoRapstheoriginal]

A series we'll still remember in 10-20 years.

I can't tell if your being serious,

[SharoneWright]

A series we'll still remember in 10-20 years.

I can't tell if your being serious,

Well, I will. The 28-run game. A series sweep against the Red Sox at Fenway to begin the 2nd half, pushing us clearly toward the playoffs while cementing Schneider’s new position. If anything good happens for us in the postseason, I think you will be able to look back at this series as a sign post.

[linery88]

MLB Network loves Manoah,and they use him to promote the game,and its all good.

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A series we'll still remember in 10-20 years.

I can't tell if your being serious,

Far less significant baseball records are still talked about. A 28-5 win is historic.

[DelAbbot]

edit: nvm

Just noticed you recently added the label "Kyle Lowry" in your avator. I remember guessing who that cute kid is before and it took me a full min to recognize Kyle. It's more fun if you didn't give the answer out

[LLJ]

A series we'll still remember in 10-20 years.

I can't tell if your being serious,

I think we will. We still talk about Brandon Morrow's near no-hitter in 2010 from time to time. The 28 run game seems like it will be of the same caliber historically

[vaff87]

Rocket Raimel now has a positive fWAR. And since May 27th he’s been our 4th best hitter.

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[Corinne]

edit: nvm

Just noticed you recently added the label "Kyle Lowry" in your avator. I remember guessing who that cute kid is before and it took me a full min to recognize Kyle. It's more fun if you didn't give the answer out

Oh the label was always there, it's been the same avatar for years. I cropped it directly from some "before they were famous" pic/video because I thought it was hilarious . My bad for ruining people's guessing game though lol. I'll remove it if I can figure out how

[WuTang_OG]

Get another 2 game sweep here vs Cards