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Great Start from Manoah, Jays Beat Yankees – Bluebird Banter

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It is always good when the rebels find the exhaust port.

I don’t think anyone will argue if I suggest that Alek Manoah just had our best start of the young season. 6 innings, just one hit, 4 walks and 7 strikeouts. Three of the walks came in the third inning, helped along by a particularly shaky Paul Emmel behind the plate. Emmel had both teams yelling at him at various times. I’ll be curious to see the “Umpire Scorecards” card on this game tomorrow.

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Alek does seem to save his best starts for the Bronx.

And we had some terrific defense, especially this double play started by master ballerinas Santiago Espinal and Bo Bichette. My sister says that Bo is the man, and said I could quote her, so I did. Now she’ll want payin’.


Bo had another great throw earlier in the game (he also threw wide of first twice on fairly easy ground balls that Vlad made nice plays on. Teoscar Hernandez also made a nice sliding catch just before the double play above.

Offensively, we did enough.

George Springer went 3 for 5, hit his second home run of the season, a two-run shot in the third. And he had an RBI double in the seventh, bringing Santiago Espinal home. Espinal and Hernandez also had 3 hits each. And Lourdes Gurriel had our other hit.

That means the other five batters had 0 for. Bo was 0 for 5 with 3 strikeouts. Chapman 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts. And we were less than impressed with Zack Collins, going 0 for 3 with 2 strikeouts.

Our bullpen did the job tonight:

  • Trevor Richards had troubles, giving up a hit and a walk while getting 1 out.
  • Adam Cimber got the double shown above, getting Richards out of trouble and then pitched the eighth, pitching around a hit batter.
  • And Jordan Romano gave up a leadoff single, got a double play, another single, and got a strikeout, picking up his third save of the year.

Jays of the Day: Manoah (.353 WPA), Springer (.297), and Cimber (.159).

No Suckage Jays. Bo had the low mark, -.090, but he made a couple of nice plays in the field, so I can’t complain too much.


Good Triumphs over Evil. The Jays are now 3-1. Tomorrow we get to see Yusei Kikuchi in a regular-season game for the Jays. Nestor Cortes starts for the Evil Empire.

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Senators score 5 in 1st, cruise past Sabres – NHL.com

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“I thought that we were ready to go,” Ottawa coach Jacques Martin said. “We got some pucks at the net, we got people at the net. Took advantage of our opportunities and, I think, built a nice lead. And then I thought, in the third period, we continued again. Our goaltending was good. Made some key saves. But I thought we shut them down in the third period good.”

Shane Pinto had a goal and three assists, and Brady Tkachuk, Boris Katchouk, Jakob Chychrun and Drake Batherson each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (31-36-4), who have won three in a row. Korpisalo made 34 saves.

“If you want to win, you need balance,” Pinto said. “And we had that tonight and it’s going to be big for the back-to-back tomorrow (against the Chicago Blackhawks) to have that same thing. So, going to need all the guys on board.”

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JJ Peterka and Connor Clifton scored for the Sabres (34-34-5), who have lost four of six. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed four goals on nine shots before he was replaced by Devon Levi, who made 31 saves in relief.

“We wanted, I guess, to play as individuals,” Clifton said. “I’m disappointed we let ‘Upie’ down, he’s the heart and soul of this team. He’s kept us in so many games, and just to not show up and play that careless style, give them freebies all over the place. … Yeah, obviously, the first 20 really dictated the rest of the game.”

Artem Zub gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 2:37 of the first period. He stuffed in a loose puck on the goal line after Katchouk’s shot was redirected by Mark Kastelic between Luukkonen’s pads.

Katchouk made it 2-0 at 4:56, tipping Parker Kelly’s shot from the top of the right face-off circle past Luukkonen.

“It’s keeping the consistency with good effort, right habits,” Katchouk said. “The small things matter so much in this game. And obviously, it worked out tonight with the tip. But kudos to my linemates. ‘Kels’ and ‘Kassy,’ they worked hard to get the puck as well. Those two battle hard every night as well. We feed off each other, and it’s good to play with them.”

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