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It was the sort of night time the place you may catch your self wishing they’d saved simply a type of seemingly limitless string of house runs for a recreation like this one.
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The run of offensive excellence couldn’t final perpetually and when the bats fell off for actually the primary time in September, they fell off utterly in a 2-0 loss to the American League-leading Tampa Bay Rays.
The loss, although, pales compared to the potential greater personnel loss that looms.
After the sport the Jays introduced that Tuesday night time’s starter Jose Berrios got here out after seven innings as a precautionary measure.
Based on supervisor Charlie Montoyo, Berrios felt one thing in his aspect after the seventh and Montoyo made the instant determination to close him down for the rest of the night time regardless of throwing simply 87 pitches at that time.
“We’re calling it left stomach tightness for now,” Montoyo mentioned after the sport. “We’ll see how he’s (right now) however he’s getting remedy proper now.”
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Credit score Rays starter Drew Rasmussen initially for setting the tone with 5 stingy innings of two-hit, no-run baseball.
Rasmussen, making simply his seventh begin of the season for the Rays after coming over from Milwaukee in a commerce, has spent nearly all of the season working in aid however has been a gradual five-inning or so contributer for the Rays since becoming a member of.
The one hassle Rasmussen was in all night time got here within the fourth when George Springer led off the inning with a double into left. Springer wanted each little bit of his velocity simply to sneak in below the tag of second baseman Brandon Lowe after a powerful throw from Austin Meadows.
Rasmussen then issued his lone stroll of the night time to Marcus Semien.
That bought the Rogers Centre crowd of an introduced 13,103 on their ft as a result of it introduced Vladimir Guerrero Jr., he of the American League-leading 45 house runs to the dish.
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Rasmussen fell behind the Jays MVP candidate slugger 3-0 however was bailed out when Guerrero positively smoked a ball to centre.
Sadly for the Jays trustworthy it was proper into the glove of the peerlessly positioned Manuel Margot for a really loud however comparatively straightforward out.
Rasmussen accomplished the escape getting Bo Bichette on strikes after which one other nicely hit ball to centre discovered the ready glove of Margot.
The Rays in the meantime bought all of the offence they would wish within the second inning when Rays’ first baseman Ji-Man Choi took Jays starter Jose Berrios deep main off the inning.
It was the lone run Berrios would enable earlier than he got here out after seven with that stomach tightness.
Brandon Lowe contemporary off the injured record bought the Rays an insurance coverage run within the eighth with a solo homer off Jays reliever Tim Mayza.
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Rasmussen’s night time ended an inning later however the magic of the primary 13 video games of September wasn’t there even after the Jays bought into that Tampa bullpen.
Pete Fairbanks, JT Chargois, David Robertson and Andrew Kitt every adopted with scoreless innings of their very own to clean the Jays for the night time.
By way of 13 video games in September the Jays aren’t simply placing collectively a terrific month, they had been placing collectively an historic month.
The Jays got here into final night time’s contest with the Rays having gone 12-1 within the month scoring a median of 8.77 runs an evening whereas hitting an remarkable staff common of .331.
Over that span they had been homering on common just below thrice a recreation.
However in opposition to 5 Rays’ pitchers the mixed offence was three hits, Springer’s fourth inning double the one further base hit of the night for the house aspect.
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REVISITING THAT START
Alek Manoah has turned various heads along with his first yr within the majors. Depend Montoya amongst them.
Montoya, like lots of the Tampa hitters, marvelled at his younger right-hander’s splitter on Monday night time as he went a profession longest eight innings in a gem of a begin blanking top-of-the-line hitting groups within the American League.
“He needs to be within the dialog for rookie of the yr,” Montoyo mentioned earlier than Tuesday’s recreation. “He’s been spectacular. He’s a type of guys whenever you first noticed him, you understand he’s bought it.”
Not solely did Manoah set his personal private bar for finest efficiency of his younger profession with that begin, he gave the Jays bullpen a uncommon straightforward night time.
“Our bullpen might be probably the most rested it has been in a very long time,” Montoyo mentioned.
mganter@postmedia.com
