Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v13 | **WILDCARD SERIES GAME 2** Wed, Oct 4 | @ Min | 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT | Berrios vs Gray

[bossram]

Every single team celebrates making the playoffs in baseball regardless of how they make it. The Jays weren't special in doing that lol and it has nothing to do with the performance tonight.

Absolutely celebrate. Have a couple beers. But it was so over the top and cringe. Looked like they thought they won the World Series. Half the guys were probably still hungover.

The Astros actually won a Division and their attitude was, "we still have business to take care of".

 

[GoonieFace]

Absolutely celebrate. Have a couple beers. But it was so over the top and cringe. Looked like they thought they won the World Series. Half the guys were probably still hungover.

The Astros actually won a Division and their attitude was, "we still have business to take care of".

Such a terrible take, they were no less prepared than if they didn’t celebrate. They just sucked at hitting, which they tend to do sometimes

 

[stats1]

Nothing surprising about game 1. Bats went cold again like they’ve been pretty much the whole season, not being able to hit with RISP AGAIN nothing to be surprised about. I mean this is what we’ve seen all year with this group. I expect them to lose tomorrow and another quick 2 game extension of the season.

 

[bossram]

Such a terrible take, they were no less prepared than if they didn’t celebrate. They just sucked at hitting, which they tend to do sometimes

Terrible take, yet I'm somehow correct. Team looked lost. Interesting.

Perhaps they could have better prepared their AB approaches.

 

[MS]

I might not be a baseball genius, but Belt at 2 and Biggio even being in the lineup ... managers decision

Biggio was literally the team’s best hitter in September. Belt was absolutely raking to close out the season and hit 3 HR in the last 4 games.

Like, FFS, when did sports fandom get to be more about having the angriest dumbest hottest takes over anything else?

 

[bossram]

Everyone here acting like this was domination when we lost by a whole 2 runs

They were never really in the game.

 

[MS]

Terrible take, yet I'm somehow correct. Team looked lost. Interesting.

Perhaps they could have better prepared their AB approaches.

Literally every team in baseball celebrates exactly like this and has for years.

This is the new ‘THE HR JACKET IS THE PROBLEM!’

 

[fancy lad]

I might not be a baseball genius, but Belt at 2 and Biggio even being in the lineup ... managers decision

biggio was one of the better jays at the tail end of the season and he is a solid defender. Yeah not a great game today, but what are the alternatives?

Davis schneider and Merrifield were both cold and not offering much with the bat for the last month.

They were never really in the game.

they were within striking distance the whole time!

 

[bossram]

Literally every team in baseball celebrates exactly like this and has for years.

This is the new ‘THE HR JACKET IS THE PROBLEM!’

I loved the jacket. The celebration was cringe.

they were within striking distance the whole time!

No one believed they were going to get the runs in. They didn't even look like they believed it. After the 2-0 homer felt like the game was already over.

 

[DFF]

Looking at the lineup, they have 2 reliable bats. One is a fat guy that has a year off.

The rest are mediocre or unreliable.

Blame the guy that put together this team

The reality is it’s incomplete. Half baked.

 

[dredeye]

I loved the jacket. The celebration was cringe.


No one believed they were going to get the runs in. They didn't even look like they believed it. After the 2-0 homer felt like the game was already over.

Well they were right. That homerun was all it took

 

[Kurtz]

Watching that Bo out again...I think you just gotta tip your hat to Correa, that was a phenomenal play by him.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Chappy just missed hitting it off the wall, would have been 2 runs. Damn frustrating.

 

[stats1]

Anyone who thinks Belt and Biggio shouldn’t have been in the line-up either are trolling or don’t watch enough baseball or have zero idea what they’re talking about. Biggio has been playing the best baseball of his career lately, and Belt is the only guy on this team that has had any type of playoff success. Who else was Schneider going to put in?

 

[1specter]

All the Toronto teams just feel sad and disappointing lately.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

All the Toronto teams just feel sad and disappointing lately.

Outside of the Raptors championship, Toronto teams have been sad and disappointing since the early 2000s. Sure you can toss TFC and the Argos in there, but they don’t count to me. Leafs, Raptors, Jays.

 

[GoonieFace]

Anyone who thinks Belt and Biggio shouldn’t have been in the line-up either are trolling or don’t watch enough baseball or have zero idea what they’re talking about. Biggio has been playing the best baseball of his career lately, and Belt is the only guy on this team that has had any type of playoff success. Who else was Schneider going to put in?

I like Biggio, but him hitting 5th isn’t ideal. Not too many options with Merrifield disappearing the last month and a half

 

[LaP]

Anyone who thinks Belt and Biggio shouldn’t have been in the line-up either are trolling or don’t watch enough baseball or have zero idea what they’re talking about. Biggio has been playing the best baseball of his career lately, and Belt is the only guy on this team that has had any type of playoff success. Who else was Schneider going to put in?

You have to ask yourself the question for the next game in the case of Biggio hitting 5 though. It's a best of 3 series and Biggio was really bad today. Can't afford him to have another game like that while hitting 5th. It's not like the guy has a solid consistent career so far lot of bad sequences thru the years.

 

[jetsforever]

Anyone who thinks Belt and Biggio shouldn’t have been in the line-up either are trolling or don’t watch enough baseball or have zero idea what they’re talking about. Biggio has been playing the best baseball of his career lately, and Belt is the only guy on this team that has had any type of playoff success. Who else was Schneider going to put in?

Agreed except for the omission of WS MVP Springer

 

[MS]

I loved the jacket. The celebratiocringe.


No one believed they were going to get the runs in. They didn't even look like they believed it. After the 2-0 homer felt like the game was already over.

The celebration is cringe (especially to people coming from a hockey POV) but *literally every team* does the same thing. It’s standard practice. Complaining about it is basically demanding that the Jays enact a no-fun policy different than the rest of MLB.

And it just doesn’t matter. They didn’t lose today because they had some fun.

As for the game today, it was a tight low-scoring game both ways and we outhit them but we had a 401-foot out with 2 men on and they had two sub-400 foot HRs.

 

[mikeyz]

Outside of the Raptors championship, Toronto teams have been sad and disappointing since the early 2000s. Sure you can toss TFC and the Argos in there, but they don’t count to me. Leafs, Raptors, Jays.

This is exactly what I was just talking to my dad about.

Thank God that Kawhi Leonard was born. Or else this would be the darkest 30 years in any sports fan base's history.

 

[shaner8989]

18 game losing streak eh. No worries just play this dog shit team. Easy fix.

Can’t hit can’t win.

 

[Orca Smash]

Well they struggled stringing together hits all season, playoffs was not going to magically change that.

 

[Eyedea]

Since 2018 the teams who got more HRs than their opponents in postseason games had an 84% winning percentage.

Teams who got more HRs in the season or in the game/series? Because that seems like common sense/logic if it’s the latter. If it’s the former we can look at a team like AZ who showed less power than the Jays (despite playing in a bandbox) hitting 3 HRs in their first postseason game.

 

[shaner8989]

Oh look a Moreno HR