Toronto Blue Jays (70-59) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (49-81) - September 2-4

[vaff87]

earlier start time today. didnt see this

Game is on Peacock in the US. They must have decided the Jays/Pirates rivalry was national tv worthy

[Randle McMurphy]

That fly ball is caught if we have a decent outfield. Two runs on that.

[Madvillainy2004]

That fly ball is caught if we have a decent outfield. Two runs on that.

That ball had a xBA of .180 feel bad for Ross that should've been an out.

[Madvillainy2004]

Pirates 3 runs on xBA of .104 lmao

[Schad]

Weird stat of the day: over our previous 12 games, we have a BB rate of 11.3% and a K rate of 17.8% (that would be the best in both departments over the course of a full year). We've also scored less than 4 runs/game over that stretch because our slugging percentage is Tapiaesque.

So for all the complaints about us being too free-swinging...maybe we should be swinging a little more freely?

[Randle McMurphy]

Springer too hurt to pinch hit for Merrifield in this spot, it would appear.

[Randle McMurphy]

That fly ball is caught if we have a decent outfield. Two runs on that.

That ball had a xBA of .180 feel bad for Ross that should've been an out.

You expect that kind of thing from Lourdes, but Merrifield is showing he's not cut out to be a CF still there.

[Randle McMurphy]

Some truly awful baseball being played in this series.

[Madvillainy2004]

Man there must've been a better player than Merrifield available at the deadline lol

[Randle McMurphy]

Whit's route to the ball on that "double" was something there. I'd be surprised if they ever gave him another start in CF this season.

[Randle McMurphy]

Horrific situational hitting from Vlad.

[Schad]

Horrific situational hitting from Vlad.

He looked to be trying to shoot it to the opposite side, which is a good idea if the ball is in the air, and a bad idea if you hit it 111 mph on the ground directly at someone.

[Schad]

Single, single, GIDP, single, single, absolute robbery. Don't know if you can get worse cluster luck than that.

[Parataxis]

What was the xBA on that Bo hit^H^H^Hout?

[Schad]

What was the xBA on that Bo hit?

.500. Though realistically, it's even higher than that given that the CF was playing straightaway (rather than shading left-center as you would against a lot of RHH).

[Parataxis]

Horrific situational hitting from Vlad.

He looked to be trying to shoot it to the opposite side, which is a good idea if the ball is in the air, and a bad idea if you hit it 111 mph on the ground directly at someone.

With the way Vlad has(n't) been elevating the ball, you'd think he was taking hitting tips from Tapia.

[dchoye]

What going with Vladdy? Was so exciting to watch in past years.
Now the league leader in hitting into double plays
WTF ?

[Schad]

What going with Vladdy? Was so exciting to watch in past years.
Now the league leader in hitting into double plays
WTF ?

He's hitting the ball on the ground quite a bit, and when you hit the ball as hard as Vlad does, that will result in quite a few double plays. He also had a wRC+ in the top 20 in baseball entering the day so it's not like he's been bad, just not MVP-calibre.

8 pitch PA for Oneil Cruz in which Phelps' sequencing was changeup, curve, changeup, changeup, curve, changeup, curve, curve. Yeah, that seems about right.

[Schad]

New strategy: don't hit the ball right at people. Or in the gaps where they can get to it. Better yet, just hit it over the fence.

The Pirates have the hardest-hit ball of the game: the Cruz HR. The Jays have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th hardest-hit balls of the game.

[Raider917]

Is 13 above .500 the season high? could be 14 today