And while Murphy only drove his 366-feet, he hit it on a line at 109-m.p.h. A 16.8 per cent HR/FB rate - above Ray’s already-inflated career average and seventh-highest across MLB - certainly contributes to that. Home runs have been the only thing holding Ray back from a truly extraordinary season, as he entered Friday’s start having allowed 1.59 HR/9, MLB’s fifth-highest rate. It was Ray’s lone blemish on a night that lowered his ERA to 2.88, trailing only Lance Lynn among qualified AL starters. on a pitch he’s averaged 94.1 with this season - up and over the plate in the third inning, which Mariners catcher Tom Murphy gave a ride into the left field seats for a two-run shot. I think that's the biggest thing - just being able to read the hitters' swings and see those large swings where they think it's in the zone and then it's gone.”īut Ray was also his usual self in leaving one of those diminished heaters - just 92.5-m.p.h.
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It’s getting to the plate and then it’s falling off the plate. I was able to move it all over the plate. “I had a really good feel for it tonight. “My slider was probably as good as it's been all year - if not the best it's been all year,” Ray said. It was his fourth consecutive outing going at least six innings, his ninth in his last 10, and his 17th in 23 starts this season. He's been our ace.”Įven with his velocity down a tick or two in a noticeable materialization of Toronto’s collective fatigue, Ray was his usual, overpowering, workhorse self, mixing fastballs and sliders to generate 18 whiffs on his way to eight strikeouts and only one walk over seven solid innings. He keeps doing the same thing every outing - giving us seven good innings,” Montoyo said of Ray. And it let Robbie Ray’s latest strong outing go to waste.
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The problem was the Blue Jays didn’t do their own part - struggling to string hits together, going 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position, leaving 9 on base, imploding with two out in the bottom of the ninth, walking in a game-winning run that reached third without a ball leaving the infield, and losing a game they could have won, 3-2. The Orioles couldn’t hold up their end of that bargain Friday, but the Rangers did. It will be September in two-and-half weeks, and most Blue Jays fans are already scoreboard watching, hoping the lowly Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers can take a game or two off the Boston Red Sox and Oakland A’s this weekend.
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But you've got to deal with it.”Īnd the familiar crowd’s absence doesn’t make these games any less important for a club looking up at three teams in the race for the AL’s two wild card spots. “But that's just part of baseball and coming to the west coast. Because if I feel it, the players feel it,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said of his team’s road weariness entering the weekend.
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PT Friday morning, nearing the end of a gruelling stretch of 25 games in 24 days, and at that dog-days point in the season when legs are heavy, minds are worn out, and just about everyone’s playing through something that aches, restricts, or downright hurts, the Blue Jays really could’ve used the boost from a packed house of rowdy Western Canadians. On the second leg of a west coast road trip that had the Blue Jays arriving in Seattle from Anaheim close to 4 a.m.