Effectively, that wasn’t fairly.
On Saturday afternoon, the Toronto Blue Jays hosted the Baltimore Orioles for the third of 4 video games within the sequence, falling 9-5 to the man chicken staff to carry their season report to 1-2. Let’s check out what occurred on this recreation.
For the third consecutive recreation, the Orioles opened the scoring with a house run, as Colton Cowser hit his first of the season, main off for the Orioles within the prime of the primary. Three batters later, Jordan Westburg hit his second of the season to place the Orioles up 2-0.
Colton Cowser drives a leadoff homer to straightaway middle. 💪 pic.twitter.com/k5hu8NVGYr
— MLB (@MLB) March 29, 2025
However the Blue Jays fought again. Anthony Santander hit an RBI single to chop the Orioles’ lead in half. That was adopted by Alejandro Kirk’s sacrifice fly to tie the sport up at two. The most effective second of this recreation for the Jays got here because of Andrés Giménez, who hit his second residence run as a Blue Jay within the backside of the third to make it 4-2 for the Jays.
Andrés Giménez LOVES the house run horn 😤
His second of the sequence! pic.twitter.com/2WUQzKvL1r
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) March 29, 2025
It was all downhill for the Jays from there, although. Within the prime of the fourth, Gary Sánchez hit a sac fly to carry the Orioles to inside one, adopted by Ramón Urías’ double that scored three runs to offer the Orioles a 6-4 lead.
The next inning, the Orioles scored runs because of Cedric Mullins’ RBI single and a sac fly from Heston Kjerstad to increase their result in 8-4. Within the backside half of the fifth, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded out to drive in a run, however that’s all of the Jays would get. Westburg put the sport away along with his second homer of the sport.
Takeaways…
Max Scherzer gave up two residence runs within the first inning and pitched simply three innings, with 45 pitches. Concerningly, he was pulled from the sport with what was referred to as proper lat soreness. Not nice.
The sport was misplaced when Richard Lovelady and Jacob Barnes pitched. Coming into the fourth inning after Scherzer was pulled, the Jays had a 4-2 lead. Nevertheless, Lovelady gave up 4 earned runs in an inning pitched, and Barnes gave up two earned runs in an inning and a 3rd.
Bo Bichette appears implausible this season as he’s carrying the success he present in Spring Coaching. On Saturday, he was 4-4 with two doubles and two runs scored, giving him a .500/.571/.667 slash line in 14 plate appearances. It’s nonetheless very early, however that is encouraging.
Andrés Giménez additionally appears nice to start out the season, as he hit his second residence run as a Blue Jay on this recreation. It took him 38 video games, or till Could 12, to hit two residence runs with the Guardians final season.
Jeff Hoffman made his debut with the Blue Jays (within the massive leagues). He pitched an inning with a strikeout and successful allowed, the identical outing that Yimi García had. Chad Inexperienced additionally pitched on this recreation, giving up a house run and placing out two.
The Jays have an opportunity to keep away from their first sequence loss on Sunday, as they tackle the Orioles within the sequence finale at 1:37 PM ET. Chris Bassitt is anticipated to start out the sport.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Community author for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. They are often adopted on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.
