Nationals (Soroka) vs Blue Jays (Francis): 3/31/25, 7:07pm

[jaysblue]

Nice to Springer get off to a good start. Hope he keeps this up and we can get a 3 WAR and a .800 OPS type season from him! 

[Jays24]

Garcia is a friggin stud

[Omar]

The Blue Jays are over .500!  When was the last time we could say that, like April 2024?

Francis with a quality start.

Gimenez continues to do his Barry Bonds impression.

The bullpen holds on.

Jim gets a Bobblehead for Brownies son.

What's not to like?

[Spanky99]

Put it on the board.... YES!!!!

[HomeRunHomer]

Nice, easy, quick save for Yimi.  Blue Jays win!

[jaysblue]

2 in a row!

 

[BB17]

Great win. Lineup was great and felt like they could had 8 runs, pitching was really solid. On to the next!

[BB17]

2 hours ago, jaysblue said:

See some listings on FB Marketplace for $30-40 which isn't bad. 

You could have bought tickets for like $5 on StubHub tonight before the game lol. I saw lots of people just go into get a bobblehead then turn right around and leave lol.

[Spanky99]

Gimenez rocking a 283 wRC+, ISO of 611 and an xwOBA higher than his actual wOBA 429 to 427 a BABIP of .250... no luck here, if anything he's been unlucky so far. Early on he's been straight fire out of the gate, love to see it. 💥🔥😎

[G-Snarls]

4 minutes ago, Spanky99 said:

Gimenez rocking a 283 wRC+, ISO of 611 and an xwOBA higher than his actual wOBA 429 to 427a BABIP of .250... no luck here, if anything he's been unlucky so far. Early on he's been straight fire out of the gate, love to see it.

Love it 

And when he cools off some hopefully Vlad and Santander have got it going 

[Spanky99]

1 hour ago, G-Snarls said:

Love it 

And when he cools off some hopefully Vlad and Santander have got it going 

Amen to that.

[Masterbather]

I was crazy busy, unfortunately I missed the whole game. Hard to tell from the box score how Bowden looked. Seemed like he was about a B minus effort?

I'm not going to lose my s*** over Gimenez at this point. But if he could find enough of a stroke to be a poor man's Roberto Alomar, I wouldn't complain.

[max silver]

8 hours ago, Masterbather said:

I was crazy busy, unfortunately I missed the whole game. Hard to tell from the box score how Bowden looked. Seemed like he was about a B minus effort?

I'm not going to lose my s*** over Gimenez at this point. But if he could find enough of a stroke to be a poor man's Roberto Alomar, I wouldn't complain.

I thought Francis was tremendous for the first 5 innings but he ran out of gas in the 6th.

[Orgfiller]

1 hour ago, max silver said:

I thought Francis was tremendous for the first 5 innings but he ran out of gas in the 6th.

This has been a common issue for Francis since he transitioned to the rotation in the back half of last season. He eventually just runs out of gas, the fastball is noticeably slower and he gets shelled. That's fine in the modern game, just get us through 5 solid innings, maybe push a 6th if there's enough of a cushion in the scoreboard like last night. Probably means you'll always need to have the long man ready to follow him as TTO creeps up however.

[Masterbather]

2 hours ago, max silver said:

I thought Francis was tremendous for the first 5 innings but he ran out of gas in the 6th.

 

58 minutes ago, Orgfiller said:

This has been a common issue for Francis since he transitioned to the rotation in the back half of last season. He eventually just runs out of gas, the fastball is noticeably slower and he gets shelled. That's fine in the modern game, just get us through 5 solid innings, maybe push a 6th if there's enough of a cushion in the scoreboard like last night. Probably means you'll always need to have the long man ready to follow him as TTO creeps up however.

All in all, I'll take an effort like that 100 out of 100 times from the guy who's supposed to be a 5th starter. Part of me keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop but, hasn't happened yet. Granted the Nationals are merely an appetizer.