Jays win on John Gibbons Day

Astros 1 Blue Jays 3

It was nice to have a win on John Gibbons day.

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We didn’t score much. Only had 3 hits on the day. Two of them were homers, a 2-run homer from Randal Grichuk in the first and a solo homer, Reese McGuire’s first MLB home run in the 5th.

Our other hit was Jon Berti’s first major league hit, a single in the 8th inning.

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Fortunately, the Astros didn’t do any better. They only managed 5 singles against 7 Blue Jays pitchers:

• Sean Reid-Foley: Started and went 3.1 innings, allowing just 1 hit, 1 earned, 1 walk with 5 strikeouts. We were told he was only going to go 2 innings but Gibby left him out while he had a no-hitter going. He gave up his first hit in the 4th and that was it.
• Joe Biagini followed, going 1.1, allowing a hit and a walk.
• Jake Petricka gave us an inning, allowing 2 hits, with 2 strikeouts.
• Tim Mayza got the last out of the 6th inning.
• Ryan Tepera pitch 1, giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout.
• Tyler Clippard had a nice quick 8th, with 2 strikeouts.
• Ken Giles gave up a couple of hard hit outs, and then got a strikeout to finish off the game, getting his 13th strikeout.

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Jays of the Day? Gibby, Grichuk (.146 WPA), Petricka (.098) and let’s give one to McGuire for his first home run.

Suckage Jays? Pillar had the low mark at -.084 for an 0 for 3, with a strikeout.

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This is what it was all about today:

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We had 281 comments in the GameThread. I led the way.

A couple more gifs.

This is the way we should all walk away from our jobs.