The Blue Jays post a walk-off victory after a confused bullpen stumbled

Toronto-Lumbar sprain landed Yimi Garcia on the injured list last week. The Toronto Blue Jays didn’t play very close leverage in subsequent games, so his defeat didn’t have an immediate effect.

Then on Tuesday night, when Ross Stripling handed over a 4-2 lead for preservation after five innings of the Boston Red Sox, manager Charlie Montoyo before bringing the ball closer to Jordan Romano. I realized I needed 9 outs.

Minus Garcia was discovered by blowing off the lead before winning a 6-5 walk-off in the RBI singles of Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., so bridging the gap suddenly became much more complicated.

The thrilling rally, which enthusiastically attracted 27,140 spectators, began with a pinch hitter single by Tyler Danish’s Alejandro Kirk. After George Springer continued his walk and Hansel Robles took over, Bichette sent a chopper from the right to tie the game. Guerrero then walked away with a base hit, a comeback that extinguished the frustration before it.

The Blue Jays dominated the game early on with a 4-2 lead. When the Stripling left, the club’s most stable Adam Simver, the current setup man, was used at the heart of the sixth Red Sox lineup. To zero. However, after Trent Thornton surrendered a two-run home run to Rob Refsnyder in the seventh inning, Christian Vazquez took the lead RBI single from Tim Mayza in the eighth inning, and Reed was released from there.

Without the jumping grab with Santiago Espinal running through the Matt Gauge on the Christian Arroyo line and loading the base that led to the double play, the damage could have been even worse. It proved to be the ninth most important.

Still, the end result is that the lead didn’t reach Romano, who pitched 9th in the scoreless, and the Blue Jays’ grasp almost slipped out of the match against their rivals in the division.

Relief blips like these, like one-off, are disappointing, but they happen no matter how dominant the bullpen is. But if it’s not anomalous and there is no dominant rescue arm, this becomes a vulnerable soft spot every time the game gets slow and tight.

The Blue Jays envisioned increasing the stability of the bullpen built around Garcia, Simver, Maza, and Trevor Richards, who struggled before hitting the injured list with neck tension. The expected velocity injection from Julian Merryweather was a tension in the left abdomen, and Nate Pearson shut down in a latitude tension for the next three to four weeks, but did not appear and due to the hollowing out of the corps, Seattle. Sergio Romo, a 39-year-old lighty released by the Mariners. He was scheduled to spend a physical night on Tuesday night to complete his signature.

Lomo doesn’t crumble with leverage, but it’s another matter if he has enough left to work again. Turnaround odds aren’t too high, but if Thornton shifts from mop-up duty to leveraged work in some circumstances and Maza is damaged in four of the last five outings, it’s a dice roll worth taking. is.

David Phelps, who pitched continuously and wasn’t available on Tuesday, is also stable, but he and Simver aren’t the only ones. Rookie Lefty’s gauge has a big one, but more runways are needed to gain leverage, but Max Castillo and Shaun Anderson are on the roster to absorb innings when starting sideways. I am.

It doesn’t matter as long as the crime can defeat those problems. However, comebacks like Tuesday do not always occur.