Blue Jays (Gausman) vs Tigers (Skubal): 7/26/25, 6:10pm

[Spanky__99]

Gasman and Bo, players of the game.

[Jonn]

Tigers have lost 12 of their last 13 games and still have a 7.5 game division lead. Literally insane how bad that division is.  It has to make it hard for the Twins, Indians, and Royals to sell knowing how bad the Tigers actually are.

[Omar]

1 minute ago, Spanky__99 said:

Gasman and Bo, players of the game.

Absolutely.  That PA by Bo helped get Skubal out of the game.  

[Jonn]

Another crazy stat is the Blue Jays are 39-29 vs teams above .500 so this no fluke. For reference the Yankees are 3 games under .500 against winning teams. 

[G-Snarls]

They even won the Skubal game 

Unfreakinbelievable

[Spanky__99]

8 minutes ago, Omar said:

Absolutely.  That PA by Bo helped get Skubal out of the game.  

Yeah, the go ahead basehit, great D, he was shining tonight.

[Governator]

How quickly this has turned into one of the most enjoyable seasons in years.

[Jayzfan79]

45-3 in games scoring 5+ runs

17-4 in July

21-5 in last 26 games

47-22 in last 69 games since May8

 

[BatFlip]

This team is something!

That was an incredible at-bat by Bo today and it looks like Vladdy might finally be heating up.

Let's gooooo!

 

 

 

 

[Laika]

Everyone who defended the organization, Shapiro, or Atkins at all in the last 12+ months gets to take such a huge victory lap. Ceaseless t-bag victory lap. 

[GoBlue41]

My gosh this is fun! Keep the foot on the gas Jays and keep the momentum going. A pair of good deadline trades could take this team to the freaking moon!!!! 

[Jays24]

13 minutes ago, Laika said:

Everyone who defended the organization, Shapiro, or Atkins at all in the last 12+ months gets to take such a huge victory lap. Ceaseless t-bag victory lap. 

Hey hey... let's not ruin the great morale on the board with this :) 

[saskjayfan]

Holy crap this team is fun.  Vlad and Gausman heating up.  Pour a glass of the good stuff.  This team is rolling!

[Terminator]

18 minutes ago, Laika said:

Everyone who defended the organization, Shapiro, or Atkins at all in the last 12+ months gets to take such a huge victory lap. Ceaseless t-bag victory lap. 

Spanky and I should never have to pay for a meal at Swiss Chalet again with all the apologies in the forms of gift cards we have coming our way

[BatFlip]

2 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Spanky and I should never have to pay for a meal at Swiss Chalet again with all the gift cards we have coming our way

100%.  There were definitely a few others on team positivity that deserve a chicken and half rack combo.  

[43211234]

Gausman reminds me a little bit of RA Dickey. If he's got his pitch cooking early he can really have a dominant start.

 

His Blue Jays career has been a lot better than Dickey's though.

[John_Havok]

45 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

Hey hey... let's not ruin the great morale on the board with this :) 

You just don't want to get teabagged...lol

[43211234]

Vlad's wRC+ up to 140 and his defence this season has been improved from the last couple years.

 

Too bad he's still a knucklehead on the bases!

[Eat My Shatkins]

Gausman looking like an Ace his last handful of starts and Vladdy starting to swing the big stick.

With the depth this team has, if those two keep that up.....

[Brownie19]

This is incredible 

[Masterbather]

By the second and third time through the lineup they were starting to get better at bats against Skubby Doo.

If we do have to go through them in the postseason, it's good to have this one game to have actually seen him.

Until yesterday he was a mythological creature that we've only heard about for the past couple years but haven't faced. Now they know what it looks like to stand in the box against him and they know they can get to him.

[max silver]

12 hours ago, Jays24 said:

Hey hey... let's not ruin the great morale on the board with this :) 

[max silver]

3 hours ago, Masterbather said:

By the second and third time through the lineup they were starting to get better at bats against Skubby Doo.

If we do have to go through them in the postseason, it's good to have this one game to have actually seen him.

Until yesterday he was a mythological creature that we've only heard about for the past couple years but haven't faced. Now they know what it looks like to stand in the box against him and they know they can get to him.

I had a good feeling heading into this game that the Jays would at least be able to run up Skubal's pitch count and get into the Tigers pen. Bo had a huge at bat to run up his pitch count, and if it weren't for a few unfortunate baserunning mistakes the Jays may have piled up some runs against a really dominant arm in a game where he had great stuff. This bodes really well for the playoffs when the pitching tightens up. 

I certainly wouldn't have guessed that Gausman would have outpitched MLB's best starter, and if he can keep something approximating his last few starts up for the rest of the season that would be massive.

[max silver]

11 hours ago, 43211234 said:

Vlad's wRC+ up to 140 and his defence this season has been improved from the last couple years.

 

Too bad he's still a knucklehead on the bases!

Yeah unfortunately Vlad has terrible instincts on the bases so the occasional baserunning blunder is par for the course. Despite the lower power output he's been quietly having a really good season. It took him a few weeks to hit his first home run this season, and his overall numbers from that point to present are really damn good. He's been playing at a 5+ win pace since the middle of April and that's without him ever fully locking in the power stroke at the plate.

#	Name	Team	G	PA	HR	R	RBI	SB	BB%	K%	ISO	BABIP	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	xwOBA	wRC+	BsR	Off	Def	WAR
1	Alejandro Kirk	TOR	75	293	6	23	43	0	9.2%	9.2%	.111	.332	.317	.379	.427	.352		127	-4.8	4.3	16.5	3.2
2	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	TOR	85	376	14	63	46	5	14.1%	14.1%	.192	.319	.297	.404	.489	.385		149	-0.6	21.0	-8.0	2.7
3	Ernie Clement	TOR	86	336	5	46	26	2	4.8%	8.9%	.113	.307	.293	.325	.405	.317		102	1.5	2.3	7.9	2.3
4	Addison Barger	TOR	80	298	14	44	47	3	7.0%	24.2%	.244	.323	.273	.327	.516	.356		130	0.0	10.3	0.6	2.2
5	George Springer	TOR	83	342	16	58	46	10	12.9%	17.5%	.219	.298	.278	.374	.497	.376		143	1.8	18.9	-11.8	2.0
6	Bo Bichette	TOR	84	375	13	43	53	4	5.3%	15.7%	.187	.301	.278	.317	.465	.336		116	-1.1	5.7	-0.1	1.9
7	Nathan Lukes	TOR	67	218	7	26	34	1	10.6%	12.4%	.150	.299	.283	.363	.433	.347		123	-0.3	5.5	-0.5	1.3
8	Tyler Heineman	TOR	31	83	2	14	12	1	7.2%	21.7%	.145	.353	.290	.370	.435	.353		127	0.7	3.3	6.3	1.3
9	Davis Schneider	TOR	30	85	5	14	11	0	15.3%	25.9%	.254	.273	.239	.365	.493	.373		141	0.0	4.1	-0.3	0.7
10	Daulton Varsho	TOR	24	100	8	14	20	1	5.0%	31.0%	.337	.196	.207	.240	.543	.318		103	-0.1	0.2	2.3	0.6
11	Joey Loperfido	TOR	14	43	2	4	7	1	7.0%	18.6%	.179	.414	.359	.419	.538	.416		171	0.1	3.6	0.5	0.6
12	Andrés Giménez	TOR	43	162	2	13	15	5	4.9%	14.8%	.068	.250	.219	.292	.288	.265		67	1.0	-5.3	4.2	0.5
13	Myles Straw	TOR	73	172	0	25	14	6	5.2%	15.7%	.051	.262	.218	.263	.269	.240		49	1.7	-8.6	4.9	0.2
14	Will Wagner	TOR	22	69	0	10	4	1	10.1%	18.8%	.083	.362	.283	.377	.367	.336		115	0.1	1.3	-1.8	0.2

[Laika]

12 hours ago, Jays24 said:

Hey hey... let's not ruin the great morale on the board with this :) 

I almost name dropped you as the t bag recipient 

[Inklink]

So impressed with Gausman going toe to toe with Skubal

[Jays24]

2 hours ago, Laika said:

I almost name dropped you as the t bag recipient 

If I gotta get t-bagged for the Jays to be the best team in the MLB then I'll take one for the team lol. 

[Terminator]

6 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

If I gotta get t-bagged for the Jays to be the best team in the MLB then I'll take one for the team lol.