The Blue Jays are one game away from a World Series! What a season this has been. The Jays struggled for the first half of the season, finding themselves up to 8 games back for the division in a hard battle with up to 6 teams for the final wild card spot. Then a couple of big moves by management in a win now, or all in mode started a fire under the team. They had amazing months of August and September and continued rolling into October. They found themselves down twice against Boston in a 5-game series and came back both times to avoid elimination twice. Next, they finished off Texas relatively easy and now they are up a cozy 3-0 against the Mets.
This game was a little different than the last 2 shutout games. Estrada took the mound for Toronto against NL Cy Young award winner Jacob DeGrom. DeGrom allowed 2 runs in the first inning off of a Encarnacion 2-run HR. This was his 2nd in as many games and has finally come to life. The Mets would chip away over 5 innings to tie it 2-2. In the 7th, Walters and Blackmon would hit RBI singles after a bottom of the order rally. Bautista would cap it with a RBI double, 5-2 Jays.
JA Happ could not hold the lead. He allowed 3 runs to score (1 was Estrada's) in the bottom of the 7th to allow the game to tie 5-5. Donaldson committed a brutal error and Martin allowed a past ball to score the tying run and momentum was on the Mets side.
The game went all the way to the 10th as neither bullpen wanted to be the reason for the loss. Finally in the top of the 10th, Tulo smashed a 2-run shot off of Jeremy Blevins to give Toronto the 7-5 lead. Storen would close out the 10th and the Jays are up 3-0!!
Game 4 will be set in New York where AL MVP Marcus Stroman takes on Zach Wheeler. Stroman hopes to cap an amazing year with a World Series win!
Stay tuned!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Comment