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Well Nick, a terrific way for us to wrap things up here at the Riders Center in this series. An 8-1 win for the Jays. Take the series over the Orioles. Not the finest outing from Dylan Seas, but still he gutted through five innings. The bats picked him up in a big way, a monster. Fifth inning in which George Springer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Cosmo Okamoto go back to back to back. Not something I honestly think I could say. I've seen in person many times, maybe if ever, Vladie in particular going four for five, including the first home run at the dome this season. First home run in Toronto since game six of the ALCS Springer. Smash is a basis clearing double to put the game away late. A fun way to wrap up a series, especially when it comes to a division rival, Jays now, 75 and 75 on the season. They are back to 500. How many times can we say this season that the middle of the Toronto Blue Jays order dominated a ball game? It's been rare. You know, when they've won, it has often been we're talking about Dylan Seas and that kind of Sai Young form. We're talking about Violin and Rogers and that bullpen shutting things down. We're talking about role players and defense and based running and playing clean baseball. In this one, the big bats delivered huge hits and that chunk of the lineup, two to five, when eight for 16 in this ballgame, three home runs obviously in that back to back to back sequence, two doubles, four runs, drove in six and that was the difference. There are other players who contributed but the kind of star talent in this lineup gave that star performance and the spotlight is going to be on Vlad E because he finally got this home run at Rogers Center. I think that double from George Springer at the end of the game. Absolutely critical. Keeps Louis-Varland out of it. Makes things easier for the Blue Jays on Monday. That home run from Kazoo Komodo, excellent bat from him. We often see him get to two strikes. He can strike out quite a bit, struggle to stay in those at bats. He worked it to a ninth pitch at the bat and then of those three home runs, that one was actually the nicest even though it's maybe the one that people won't remember. That was a real bullet. Really a lot of fun things going on with the Blue Jays off and today centered around those players and once again, that's just something we haven't seen a ton of in 2026. That is Nick Ashborne. I'm show Adley here listening to Blue Jays talk on SportsNet, 5/9 of the fan, the Blue Jays radio network as well. We're also streaming on sportsNet.ca on the SportsNet app. You can give us a call 416-870-0590, one Triple A Triple 6, 0590, star 590 on your cell. You can text us as well. 595-90, name and location. Lots of text fresh to get to Nick. On the people's text line, always open, of course, standard messaging and data rates. May apply. You know, we talked yesterday about how electric it was in here, the Roger Center, we're in the radio booth when Bateman hit the home run. But I'll tell you what, man, I mean, the crowd, and you said it, we're going to talk about Flattie today. They went bananas when Flattie went yard in the fifth inning. He got a curtain call. I don't remember the last time I saw someone get a curtain call for a home run that wasn't some kind of milestone or in a playoff game, essentially, right? He crowds chanting his name. John Schneider pushes him back out there. He gets the gate raid bath. He has a terrific moment with Hazel at the end of the game that I laugh about, right? The F bomb, I mean, just terrific stuff from Flattie today, 4 for 5. The funny thing is, you know, the double at the beginning of the game, which is a very, was an impressive swing as well. 397 foot double off the, I guess, center right wall, just below as that kind of blue jays, blue, pale blue line, the baby blue starts to dip down just before you get to the opposing teams bullpen. And I mean, I think it was quite literally like two or three feet from being a home run. I don't have you saw this, according to MLB network Sarah Langs, that double was blown in by 11 feet by the wind, which prevented it from being a home run. So the dome actually being open is what her finally enough heard him there. But yeah, good to see him kind of get a teensy bit of timing back. And you know, I'm not going to say, oh, Vlad, he's back. But it was, it was nice to see this particular game for him. That was a really impressive hit too. The one you point to to the opposite field there. It's funny because it was almost bang on where Brett Bateman hit his two home runs out. And you kind of think, man, this guy who's supposed to hit no home runs basically in general managed to hit them and back to back games at this exact spot. And then of course, the curse season that Vlad, he's had, he falls six feet short of doing that in part because of the wind. And it just felt emblematic of everything we've seen with Vlad. And then of course, there were, I don't even want to say redemption because of course, that was a good double. And that was an impressive swing. But he finally gets over the hump innings later in the fifth, putting it out to left field. And it's not the most characteristic Vlad, he home run. It wasn't an absolute bullet. It wasn't a majestic shot. There's a little bit of a wall scraper. But clearly from his reaction when he spoke to Hazel after the game, he is taking it. His teammates are taking it. And you speak to the reaction that Vlad got in the ballpark. And it was massive. And he had a pretty slow home run trot. He was enjoying the moment. He had that curtain call. Something that stood out to me was in the bottom of the eighth inning. At that point, it's eight one. Springer's just delivered the three run double. The game is effectively over. And Vlad is at the plate with two outs there. And the chance of his name at that point in a extremely low leverage spot. To me, it was just indicative of how much this crowd was behind him and enthusiastic because he was able to finally get that home run. Yeah, it was it was great. The reaction from the crowd. And then for Okamoto to go back to back to back made it even more special. Even on the on the Springer home run right before, it was funny. I mean, Leody Tveris, I think, was the one in right field. And he's and he's a fast guy. He ran all the way back to the wall to the point where I honestly thought for half a second, it was just going to be a fly out to the warning track. He ran back to the wall and then he looked up and then just bailed essentially. And then the ball ended in the Orioles bullpen. So I don't think it was particularly close to just banging off the top of the bullpen wall. I think it was a home run the whole way. But Tveris kind of faked everyone out because it almost felt like everyone in the stadium was holding their breath. But still, I mean, even that on that pitch, I mean, that was a that was a change up that Trevor Trevor. Yeah, some say Tyler Rogers Trevor Rogers through basically right down the middle. Springer has not often missed on those ones on the Vladihome run. I believe it was a sweeper right at the bottom of the zone. So again, a nice piece of hitting from Vladih on that one. And then you mentioned Okamoto. I mean, a nine pitch AB in which he took some tough balls. He falls off three straight pitches that then led to the home run, which again came off a four seamer that was right down the pipe. And again, Okamoto has not missed pitches that are hung that often, especially on the straight stuff effectively, right? So that's a that's a real big moment of the ball game. You said it off the top. How many times have we said the middle of the order are the reasons you win a ball game? It doesn't happen very often here in in 2026. And that's when you look at an offense that ranks among the worst and all baseball for most of the season, that is the biggest reason why a lot of their role players have been fine. If you want to be critical of say, you know, Ernie Clement, he's having a rough second half of the year. Or Anders Hemenas hasn't bounced back as much as you thought he might from 2025. You can point some fingers around and see some of the guys around the edges have maybe disappointed you slightly. But realistically, we all know the reason why this offense has not performed has been those guys in the middle have been kind of fine, close to lead average, but not nearly good enough to be driving a line that's consistently scoring enough runs for the team to be, you know, competing for a division title, being one of the better offensive and baseball. We just haven't seen many instances of that happening. Now, I don't think that because it happened today, that just means the rest of the season is going to be a slug fest for these guys. It is a bit of a rare event. There's a reason why it hasn't happened so much to this point. And I'm not sure that there's just been a switch that's been flipped. You know, Vlad, he was even asked about that by Heizle Maley. Do you think this is a sign? And he was a little bit cautious about he said, you know, I'm working as hard as I can every day. I sure hope that it's a sign. I hope that this is the direction we're going in, but I'm just trying to help the team win. It'll be interesting to, you know, see, Vlad, and I know that we've seen him have that home run in the past. He had that huge game against the Guardians, which was critically important for the Blue Jays. And nothing really came of that. This one with the added layer of of having this home run at Roger Center that's been so elusive for him. Maybe there's a mental benefit to that. We just aren't going to know until we see him over the next couple of weeks. But for now, it's just a ball game that Jay's fans can enjoy. And one that was really important to this team, not only is the out of town scoreboard, not very kind to the team right now. So they could have fallen behind today, but also with a tie break with the Orioles, if they'd lost this game, then those teams are very close each other. And that comes down to last series. It still does technically, but as long as the blue jays don't get swept in that series, they're going to have that tie break. And in this bunched up race, owning these tie breaks could be the difference between going home early and making it into postseason. You mentioned the conversation. Vladie had with Hazel on the field postgame. Let's hear a little bit before we go to the phones, lots of people on hold, lots of text to get to as well. Let's hear a little bit of that conversation. Here's Vladie with Hazel right after the game. You've come so close to hitting it out here at Roger Center this season. What did you do well? What did you do right in that swing in your stance in that approach that led you to hit that out of the park? I mean, I believe in God. You know, and it's not when we won. It's when they got no chase today's a homer. You know, and Tito today, he told me today's going to be the homer. And I did it. You know, and to me it's like, it feels so good. Excuse me for the language. Sorry, guys, sorry for the language. Sorry, sorry, but it's feel good. You know, it's feel good to hit her. And I hope many more come. Vladie, I can say this with 100% surges, not often I can say that, but with 100% surge. I hope I think a lot of people hope as well that there are many more to come. Four of Vladimir Grager Jr. Certainly here at the Roger Center with just a handful of home games left. But certainly if the this team is to make the playoffs, that will go a long way. All right, let's go to the phones Nick for 1687 0591. Triple A, triple six 0590 star 590 on your cell. Let's go to Eddie in 4d Re to lead us off here. Eddie, what's up? Not much guys. How you doing today? Good. What's up with you? Well, I was doing two things show as, you know, it's Sunday, you know, football starting. So I was watching the games. I was keeping an eye on my phone and a lot of great games today. Especially that builds Texans game. I was watching that cover to cover great game. And I was keeping an eye on my phone. And then I saw that Vladie got his first one run. I immediately turned on the TV and I saw it. I was like, my God, whatever relief. But you know what, show what would have been interesting today, even better? If Vladie hit a home run at home today, and that the a Jets got an interception today, as like, like, you know, recorded one on defense, that would have been interesting. But unfortunately, as usual for the Jets, that didn't happen. Now, the other thing I wanted to say was about the Orioles losing the series. If you got Spencer Miles on the ropes, like they did, and don't score, and then you lose the game, and you do the same thing today against Dylan C. So clearly didn't have it. But he was able to make the outs when he did. You definitely not only deserve to lose the series, but your playoff hopes go up, might go up and smoke pretty soon as a result of that. So good win by the guys. And we got a route for the white socks in the next series. Because if the guardians win, and the white socks go in the wild card spot, that's going to be big trouble for the blue jays, because the white socks on the season series against the blue jays, as many of us know. So route for the white socks, and we take care of the tigers now. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Eddie, appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean, as Nick laid out, you don't necessarily want to be facing the white socks just because, for the third wild card, just because that is the, you have to win an extra game. So go over more of that when you do the standings watch courtesy of bed 365 on the other side of the break. But yeah, I mean, you kind of had a great series against the division rival. It's always great, Nick, to be the division rival, no question, but when that team is also competing with you directly for a playoff spot, the last playoff spot, it matters so much more. It effectively counts for double, essentially, right? Or triple, if you want to look at it that way, if you want to count in division. When it comes to the Orioles not being able to knock out Dylan C's, we can talk about C's here a little bit. I mean, not, not as fine as outing, right? Not exactly a masterpiece by, by the painter, right? I mean, five innings, four hits, one run, which was earned five walks, nine K's, 94 pitches, 60 of which were strikes. I mean, he really labored as Eddie lays out in that first inning, right? I mean, I was first 20 pitches, 13 of them were balls, 33 pitches overall, not top of the first. I mean, you get one walk single walk to load the bases with none out. It was the point in the Velo was somewhat diminished to the point where I was genuinely worried he was injured, essentially. And then he just snapped his fingers and found something, essentially, with three straight strikeouts, the Velo looked normal, relatively speaking, the movement on the pitches looked pretty normal. So I don't know how he just, you know, flip that switch in his brain. Maybe sometimes that that's what happens. I know he got into some temporary trouble again in the third. He did get out of it once again, and then he allows a lead off double to loop single scores the only run of the game, but considering he had thrown 33 pitches in the first inning. That he finished this game, having thrown 94, five innings just just the one earned run. I have to say I was somewhat impressed that that's what the outcome was given his Houdini act in the first inning. The first inning was one of the stranger innings I've ever seen from a pitcher if we're going to be completely honest. He came out and he threw 92, 93-ish for his first handful of fastballs. He had the bases loaded, none out, he had a three-o count on the hitter at that point. It was very easy to imagine a world where C's could have been knocked out of this start in the first inning. They were warming to you. Yeah, the Orioles were going to get a handful of runs, enough that it would have felt not insurmountable, but very difficult for a Blue Jays offense that had been scuffling. You'd kind of encountering on C's in this game. He'd had the additional rest. It didn't seem like it was going anywhere. And then he finishes that inning with 12 consecutive strikes, three of them K's. And the hinge point is really the ABS challenge from Brandon Valenzuela to get the first out of the inning. That's a three-two count instead of a ball there that would have walked in a run. Which he is not very good. He's not been good. To be clear, he has really not been. So there are 75 catchers in the majors this late year with 20 or more challenges. Valenzuela's percentage is 72. He's 45% coming into this game. That's probably improved a little bit. He was 45% the league average is about 58%. So he's way below average for the vast majority of the season. I don't want to hammer him too much. He's a rookie catcher. I figure it out. He's good defensively. Yada yada yada. But not the guy you expect to flip a game with a key ABS challenge. And he does it there and C seems to find some confidence. He finds a little bit more velocity at the end of that inning, like a little bit more 95, 96 at the very end there. He's able to get the slider to bite. The slider was really good in this game. I think that helped mitigate the lack of velocity from him, where he was sitting a little bit below 95 miles an hour again in total. But the slider, that's what got him five of those strikeouts. And coming into the game, you could have said, look, the Orioles are a high walk, high strikeout team. Cease is a high walk, high strikeout pitcher. It might be a kind of high pitch count slog where there's lots of walks, lots of strikeouts and not many balls in play. And that's sort of what happened, but this was just such an extreme version of it. And the arc, the journey we all went on was certainly not what you would have expected before the game. Let's keep the Dillon C's talk going by going back to the phones, 4168.005.91. Triple A triple 6.005.90, star 5.90 on your cell. Let's go to Alan in Toronto, Alan, what's up? They should notice nobody else in the count three and only. I see many, many games all over my life time and that's the third time I've ever seen anything like that. The two other times that happened, we once in Detroit and once in Cincinnati. And the game was on the line. That's why I remember it from up. And I looked it up. 80% of the time that the basis mode is in nobody else, we did it at least one run. And with the count three, I never went that far, but the test was both as to 85% to 90%. So we went to one cell, talked to Hookah, and we had a place that's probably the case. And they were hanging over the cell. And that's what I think. I put some work in here on my head, so it was really complicated. Thank you all. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I can't, it's a little garbled a little bit, but I can't get what you're saying, right? The audio is difficult, but it's just the point of how absurd this is. The situation is. And how unlikely it is that you find yourself in that spot, and you have this escape act. And you know what? Alan did cite some stats that I heard a little bit there, which was, you know, most of the time of what he said 80% of the time, at least one run score is the basis loaded. I think you would have been very happy. If you had gotten out of that inning, if even if someone had grounded into a double plan of the run score or some third, I think you would have been very happy with that. One run would have been a fantastic outcome. And now we're putting that layer on top of it of, Seaston, look right, and he's coming off this rough start. It's not like it had been, you know, a couple bloop singles, and you know, he hit a guy because he lost one pitch, but fundamentally all the stuff was there. Like, his velocity was way down, he was coming off a rough outing. We didn't know to expect. And then there was this face plant out of the gate. for him to just turn things. on his head. I mean, who knows what would have happened if he gave up three runs, would they still have scored a-ra? Maybe they win this ball game, maybe none of that mattered, but it certainly felt in the moment like it mattered. And I think there would have been a very different atmosphere in this ballpark and around this game in terms of the tension if they had fallen, you know, in early two, three, four run deficits. He actually also had a fair bit of, I mean, two, but I still think for a pitcher that's a fair bit that qualifies. But a number of plays that he started on the defensive side, right? I mean, he had the ball that went off his heel and then what he caught, I think he caught that ball, right? That he launched over at first. And then the- I forgot who was at the- who was at the play. It was at CES, but anyways, the ball scorched back to the mound and he caught it on- he caught it with his glove, the comebacker, with the force of the ball knocking the glove off his hand and then he still went and got it and threw it to first for an out. I mean, it's hard to do things like that. I mean, I don't think he is- I mean, these guys are all athletes, but I mean, there are guys who I think we've talked about that are, you know, more known for fielding their position as- as pitchers. Soriano certainly is a current guy, Barrios, obviously, famously, in the last couple years, one of those guys as well. I don't think we've necessarily gone one way or another on that with CES specifically, but that he was able to keep his head in those moments even though things are not necessarily- you're not getting the truly dominant, you know, seven-innings guy from him, no walks type thing that we've seen a flashes of this year. I do want to give him some credit with that because it's not something you see very often with him. He deserves credit for navigating this outing without his best stuff and there is some intentionality to the way he works his velocity and where he gears up and gears down, but certainly whether it's whatever you want to call it, fatigue, wear and tear like he's just not where he was physically earlier in the season, he's battling and at the end of the day, basically any pitch on the planet, you say you're going to give me five runs- sorry, you're going to give me five in- if you're giving me five runs, that's a problem. If you're giving me five innings and allow a single run, you're going to take that. I know that in a perfect world that guy is going to go slightly deeper into a ballgame and you like to rest more of your bullpen, but it's September, we have expanded rosters, we have an expanded bullpen. The bullpen actually wasn't too taxed coming into this ballgame. You will take the outcome. The way that outcome came about was not always beautiful, was not always elegant, was not always the best we've seen of Dylan Seas, but the results are what they are and he gave them an excellent chance to win this ballgame, which is what they did. Majid and Toronto joining us here on Blue J-stock. Majid, what's up? Hey, so, hey Nick, how are you guys doing? Good man, thanks for joining us today. What's on your mind? Good, good. I had an original point I wanted to speak about Seas, but I just shifted mine. Basically, Springer and Okamoto, they came up at perfect time in the lineup and they did amazing things. In the past week, if I'm not mistaken, Okamoto was hitting like a 900 OPS and Springer to his credit is gutting it out because we know he's dealing with a lot of injury. He's probably dealing with a shoulder injury still, right? Because we know that even earlier in the season, we had the toe injury. He came back, but it felt like he came back to early because he was laboring. He's done his job with Springer and Okamoto has been doing fantastic over the past couple weeks and his average is increasing. His homers are increasing and all you can hope for is the boys to stay consistent and we can make a run at this thing in the next couple weeks. Hopefully, we're still talking about Fuji's baseball on the 28th and 29th of this month. Thank you so much for taking my call and I hope you guys have a good day. Yeah, I appreciate it. We talked about the homeruns from Springer and Okamoto, but I like what Majid said about the injuries or just the various ailments, maybe it's a better way of saying it, for George, because we were talking about this earlier when we were looking at the lineup and no Kirk today and I got it. He could have not played. He could have not played yesterday and he did because day game after night game, they're pushing all the buttons that they have to because they're desperate and they need as many wins as they can possibly get. I thought especially after laying that game, Springer was limping around and maybe looked like another lower body thing for him and as Majid outlined a lot of injuries for Springer this year. Now of course, Springer, after that moment in yesterday's ballgame, did come back into the game. He made his next play appearance, so that's certainly a positive. And even I remember yesterday's pre-game availability with Schneider in his office, he was asked about Springer on Friday doing some, I think a Mitch call that Mitch Bannon calling it Supervised Running Drills and John laughed because he said, "Yeah, it's kind of what it is because in hockey terminology dealing with some lower body stuff, I think is his exact words." And so that was before the game and then he has this tweak or whatever, still comes back out. I think it would have been perfectly reasonable to assume that George Springer did not play today, even if you were giving Kirk a half day off, you could have gone Kirk D.H. and re-jigged the lineup to a certain extent. But they didn't and that clearly paid off in a big way for Springer Dinger today. I mean, he was the one who put them ahead and he was the one who spared Louis Vareland an absolutely critical contribution to this win. And with Springer, it's interesting because you see the name on the back of the jersey, we know how good he was last season and there have been flashes, but on a day-to-day week-to-week basis, it's kind of hard to know who George Springer is. And it's not because of a lack of skill or focus or even inconsistency. I believe that has too much to do with the way he goes about his business. It's just he has dealt with so many different relatively minor normally, but so many different physical ailments over the course of season. Some of that just relates to being a player his age who has played as many ball games as he has, but on a given day, it certainly feels like Springer can be feeling like himself and sort of looking like himself and producing like himself. And there's other days where he kind of looks and feels and produces in a more limited capacity. It felt like today might have been one of those days where we're going to see a somewhat diminished version of Springer because of that whole storyline you laid out where there was this lower body injury that he'd been managing to some degree, but he comes out and, you know, his double at the end of the ball game. That was not an absolutely scorched double. It's not like one where he banged it off the wall. The home run was kind of a high arcing fly ball. It was his first opposite field home run of the season, which was kind of interesting. We tend to see him turn on the ball to get it out. So that showed some strength that he was able to do that, but aren't coming into the game. You might have been reasonable to lower your expectations and instead of anything limiting him, he had one of his better games of the season. A couple of texts I want to get to before we take a break here. Steward and North Vancouver, perhaps Dylan's ability to overcome bases loaded no outs in the first inspired the team to play their hearts out. Just springy, thinking about Vladisomer Rat by Springer and Oaks Blast on this sunny Sunday afternoon brings tears to my eyes. Despite being just one win in a pennant race, I think these were moments I will never forget. Tony from Kitchener, how can people say baseball is not romantic? I had tears in my eyes when he hit that homer. I honestly think based on the reaction of the crowd, Tony, you're probably not the only one. A great moment, no question. This one's from Kristen Markham. They may have taken 150 games or more, but that nightmare narrative is finally done. Guerrero, home run, Roger Center. Seas wasn't as sharp, but he was serviceable enough to do the job. I hope the break until the road trip will help him, for him, will help him recover enough for the final push with his savage. We'd also gotten, we were talking about Hazel earlier, gotten a pre-game update from Hazel. Treyis Savage, throwing a bullpen earlier this morning, and then did some work on the field. The fall goes well. Hazel saying she's hearing. He could be back in time for the series at Baltimore. That's a pretty big development as far as the starting pitching goes. I mean, that could be once again, could Treyis Savage be coming into the rotation again to save the Jays bacon at the end of the year? That'd be pretty fun. Just one last thing on Seas before we take that break out as well, since we just mentioned it with Chris's text on the text line. But 236K is on the year for Seas. That, in terms of players right now in Major League Baseball, ties him with Jacob Mizorowski for the league lead in strikeouts, because Mizorowski didn't pitch today. That is also a new career high for him, surpassing 227 set back with, I believe, the White Sox a few years ago. In terms of single season numbers for Blue Jays pitching. It is already the fifth most in a single year. Gosman sits at four with 237. So I mean, he's going to get that record in the next start. Robby Ray, the year he won the Si Young in 2021 had 248 strikeouts. So Seas is 12 behind Robby Ray. If he makes, I mean, the way he pitches, I mean, he did that in one game. Truthfully, he pitches his ass off. But I mean, in two games, I could easily see him getting that certainly. And then I mean, after that, then you get into the absurd years with Roger Clemmons, right? There's two Si Young years, 271 strikeouts in 1998, and then a part of 1997, and then 292 in 1998. I mean, I don't think anyone's going to touch that for a long time if ever. I just use differently back then, right? I don't want to take anything away from the rocket, because those were unbelievable seasons, but you're just not going to see modern pitchers logging. It's enough innings to put up any strikeouts. That's silly though. But I mean, that's still pretty cool for Dylan Seas to be, you know, there's a place for him outside of absurd Roger Clemmons numbers that there's a place for Seas just beneath him. And that's it, actually. Well, and this is a seven year contract. right? We are in year one of the Dylan C's experience. I think the expectation from the franchise fairly would be that he's going to be all over Toronto Blue Jays pitching leaderboards before this thing is done. Yeah. I was talking to, I was talking to Max actually, Shurser when I had that conversation with him in the dugout a couple weeks ago and it was the day they unveiled the level of excellence and I said to him, I mean if there's a guy who could be, I was against level of excellence day, if there's a guy who could do that because he was telling me all about Cease's stuff and if there's a guy who could be on there one day and he agreed because I mean Cease's stuff is nasty and I'm going to guess Mad Max knows what he's talking about. 416-870-05901 AAA-60590 star 590 on your cell, 590-590 name and location. Let's take a quick break here Nick. On the other side, read some text that we haven't gotten to go back to the phones as well and you mentioned the how important this was, the out of town scoreboard. We'll take a look at the standings watch courtesy of Bed 365. You're listening to Blue Jays Talk, that's Nick. I'm show back in a flash on SportsNet, five down in the fan and the Blue Jays radio network. And while these new world resort, your family at the sorbrennet, come to Papa, when I was reading the Hiritando and Mickey and Minnie's run away and railway, and when there's a moment of poor magic and while these new world resort, visit this new world.com. This is the story of the one. As a shipping manager, he's running the dock, stocking supplies and making sure every order goes out on time. And Granger helps him stay prepared. From shipping supplies to PPE to hand tools, he counts on Granger to keep products moving and trucks rolling. So his operation runs smoothly, no matter the shift. Call 1-800-GRanger. Click Granger.com or just out by Granger for the ones who get it done. Yeah, that was huge. Wasn't a comfortable feeling when your base is loaded, nobody out. You're kind of almost conceding a runner to there early and to kind of get that strikeout to Mayo, that's big. I think those are the spots you want to try to use them if they're close. And then the next two strikeouts, we know he can miss bats. So I think that right there, we had Ricky up in the first inning. Just looking at pitch count and stuff like that with nobody out. I think it was like 26 pitches. So that shifted the momentum immediately, but great job by Val. That is John Schneider talking about Brendan Valensweil as ABS challenging brought up earlier, Nick. Clearly the team viewing it as a huge turning point in this ballgame, an 8-1 Blue Jays win to get the team back to 75-75-500 on the year, which again is a huge not just for the sake of getting back to 500, not just because you win the series, but as we take a look at the standings watch presented by Bed 365, home of the five run early payout must be 19 plus Ontario only, please play it responsibly. It's a long sentence. You needed to win today because you needed to keep pace because, again, as you mentioned earlier, the attitude on the scoreboard was not particularly friendly. So we have our game, an 8-1 Blue Jays win. I'll include the Yankees. I know they're a ways away, but still they blanked the Metz two zip. And by the way, Cam Schletler threw six innings of one hit two walk, eight strikeout ball. So I'm not saying race probably over, unfortunately, but still a good year for Dylan C's no question. The Detroit Tigers with an 8-1 win over the Rockies. Of course, they will be here tomorrow. So we'll see them and have some more Tigers updates for you as soon as tomorrow. The Rays beat the Astros 14 to four. They're 90th win of the season. They really beat up on the Astros. The Guardians did wrap up their win over the twins. A 92 final there. The White Sox losing to the cards three to one games in action right now. Bottom of the fourth. The Rangers up two to one on the Diamondbacks top four in Sacramento. The Mariners up to our part of me are tied to two and then top of the second inning just they started really late because of a rain delay at Fenway, but zero zero between the Royals and Red Sox. I believe it was Noah Cameron who started this game for the Royals and then Peyton totally on the other side. So with that all being said, this is what the standings watch it looks like. Yankees Red Sox Guardians still won two three in the wild card. The Guardians 76 and 74. The Blue Jays are a game back at 75 and 75. Two and a half back in play right now. The Rangers are 73 and 76. If they win, they will remain two back. The Orioles with the loss. They are 72 and 78. They are four back and then you have three teams that are all 70 and 79. They are all five and a half back. The twins, the Tigers and the Mariners. And then if you I think we should probably should include for the sake of this discussion, the other divisions. So the White Sox are 76 and 73. They are only a half game up on the Cleveland Guardians and then you have the Astros who are also 75 and 75 and they are a game and a half up on the Rangers. So a lot will change. I'm guessing not just in the wild card race, but in the AL Central, the AL West as well down the stretch. Yeah, we're going to be tightening up, standing watch eventually, right? It's getting pretty close here. Not necessarily the Orioles because especially because the Orioles still have another series against the Blue Jays. So if they're able to sweep the Blue Jays, that changes things pretty drastically. But when you're looking at the twins, the Tigers, the Mariners and you're thinking 12 or 13 games left for these teams and they're five and a half games out of a playout spot. I'm not signing death warrants. I don't have the authority to do it, but we're pretty much there with those ball clubs. And then when you're looking at the divisional race, that's where things are really intriguing from a Blue Jays perspective. Because again, it is about these tie breaks. So the White Sox beat the Blue Jays in the season series five to one handily so that Jays do not want to be kind of in the same race as the White Sox. So you'd like to see the White Sox run away with the AL Central so the Blue Jays can remain kind of in contact with the Guardians. And then on the flip side, you have the Astros and the Rangers where they have a tied tie break with the Astros, but they've lost already to the Rangers. So theoretically, the Rangers jumping the Astros would be good. But because the Rangers are behind the Blue Jays anyway, I don't think that needs to affect rooting interests just yet. I think for now, you just want to hope the Rangers lose, Astros lose, everybody loses there. But there could come a scenario where we start to think, okay, you want to see the Astros go down and the Rangers go up because the Rangers have this tie break against Toronto. Yeah, and I mean, the Jays will play the Rangers down the stretch, but that doesn't really, it doesn't matter because obviously you have to win as many games as possible just to keep pace with the wild car race overall. But in terms of tie break, it won't matter because they could sweep the Rangers in Arlington and they still wouldn't have the tie breakers. So yeah, you have a lot ahead of you when it comes to the Blue Jays. Speaking of what's ahead, John Schneider also mentioned in his post game availability. I had mentioned earlier before the break that Hazel had that pre-game report that there's a chance that Treyis average could be back. So John Schneider was asked about it more directly. And so he had said in his post game availability that he is going to start on Wednesday for Buffalo. And we just got a note from PR saying it actually be a Tuesday start for your Savage in Buffalo for the Bisons. And again, the Triple A season also wrapping up. I think I think it wraps up a week before the Major League season. But either way, your Savage will get some minor league time for a rehab start after the Miniscus injury and then the surgery. And there's a possibility that if all goes well, if the progression goes well, he could return to the majors the following Monday. So again, that's a real good shot in the arm. As we've talked about the starting rotation, being a little threadbare outside of Cis and Soriano and occasionally, Max Sherzer effectively. If he comes back, it's probably important to understand that you're looking at him arguably as more of a bulk reliever than as a like the chance that he shows up and throws six innings is almost impossible. Like it probably would be more what you've seen from Spencer Eragedi recently, which is somewhere in the range of kind of 2.2 to four innings depending on pitch count. However, many of you listening have watched Spencer Eragedi and you've watched Trey Savage and you probably have a preference about whether which one of those ones you would rather see the Blue Jays go to in a game where they desperately need to win. So even a version of your Savage that's not, you know, worked up to being a traditional starter, could still be an important asset for this ball club? Yeah, no question. I would expect it to look like if he didn't get an opener, I don't think he would necessarily, but if you were to come back on, I think that exact quote from John was shooting for either Sunday or Monday, but most likely Monday of the following week, not tomorrow obviously. But if that is the case, then yeah, I would imagine, I mean, how many pitches did Miles throw yesterday, 44? And then I mean, that he was a little inefficient as Eddie had outlined earlier. So I'm guessing what will happen is you're aiming for some things similar issue, aiming for two innings in a bit maybe from, yes, average in terms of his very first appearance back, but I just, your point about Eragedi, I know he actually didn't pitch horribly the other day, but I think you would generally speaking take even two and a third from Trey Savage over virtually any other pitcher not named, any other starter I should say not named, Caesar Soriano at this stage. Even though it's been a tumultuous year for your Savage due to some of these physical issues, and there have been times where it just looks like he hasn't quite had his splitter and the controls have been, there's so many kind of indifferent to negative things you could say about your Savage a season, you look up at what the numbers actually are and he's been keeping runs off the board. And we have seen what he can be when he's at his best. I'm not sure it's It's fair to expect that even on a par-ending basis. just because this is such a quick return from this knee issue, but even 80% of Trai Savage in 50% of the traditional length is still someone who can help this team win a game. And that's really what it's all about at this point. I wanted to get to the bullpen with you before we get out of here. Now we didn't have to see Varlin and Springer's double the clear the bases was a huge part of that. I know he was pitching for a while warming up, but still even so that he didn't have to get into the game. You'll view it as a positive. Braden Fisher with a huge out. I mean he got Pete Alonzo looking to end the ending and strand a pair just freezing the polar bear with the curveball. And I think there were two curves from Fisher to Alonzo and that AB. So nice to see the hook as Ben Schillman said in talking with Blake on J. Stock plus earlier in the weekend. We were kind of chatting about Ricky Tiedemann and what we had seen. And you know overall, I think you're starting to see the vision for him as things have progressed again in like really small sample size. I'm going to be wrong. But you know, I think Velo movement had generally been good. But the command was something he had been working on. And I think his last couple outings has been a take a better each time it would seem including today. Yeah, we still haven't seen the version of him that's this big impact left handed arm. I think that's the vision is that he has the stuff to be someone who gets used in big spots. And he was in a relatively big spot in this game for now because he's walking a decent amount of hitters. You know, he's striking guys out too. You got to give him credit for that. He's not quite trustworthy in the big spots. Yeah, but he's on over a flu hardy, for example, right? But he's on the periphery of that. And you can see him getting better and you can certainly see what the potential is. And there is some runway to figure out if he can be usable as that sort of second lefty because that spot has been a trouble area all season long. And with, you know, man to apply and Brendan little both have their strengths, but none of them are ironclad locks to be the second person you'd go to. And if Teedham and can even put together, I don't know, two or three more solid outings that give you confidence, he could find himself sliding up the pecking order. A couple of texts will get you at the end here. A lot of lad texts, Peter and Hyde Park, what were the chances of lad at home on a Sunday of all days? That's a good point, the most exhilarating win of the year. Q from Winnipeg, so good to see all the Vladie bombs today. The home run bombs and the F bomb. And the post came interview. It's a good one. I had a playoff atmosphere at the Rogers Center, Parm from Hamilton, every star shine today, Oak, Vlad, Oak, and Unk, meaning Springer. What did it? What a day? See, that was special, man. The grind through and survive like very few in the sport can keep this momentum going. And the last one will wrap up on this one, Richard and Bowmanville, thoughts on the James may be putting in a claim for Lordus. Probably not. He got DFA today by the Diamondbacks, Lordus Gureal Jr., but yeah, really fun player. Good history here. He's just having a dreadful season. And so when you're looking at what can someone do for me over the next two weeks, a player has struggled that much, really hard to imagine them helping too much. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Pina, but I am not seeing a real union in the the short term. Listen, this was fun, Nick, a good way to wrap up this series, like we said. 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