Cubs (Brown) vs Blue Jays (Berrios): 8/12/25, 7:07pm

[neverbeenhere]

1 minute ago, Masterbather said:

Is this actually sustainable from him? 

 

Yes sir, if you talking about Varsho 

[Doubleplay21]

Hoffman can walk every batter he faces as long nobody scores.

[Grant77]

I don't like Gimenez hitting 3-0. You're not a star, just take the walk.

[neverbeenhere]

Ben Brown is a terrific [pitcher 

[Grant77]

5 minutes ago, Masterbather said:

Is this actually sustainable from him? 

 

I fully expected Varsho to hit at over a 60 HR pace. If anyone tells you different, they're lying.

[neverbeenhere]

good call 

[Masterbather]

3 minutes ago, Grant77 said:

I fully expected Varsho to hit at over a 60 HR pace. If anyone tells you different, they're lying.

Yeah okay I know he won't hit at a 60 home run pace but this dude's never even hit 30. 

 

[Grant77]

That's one of those ones where I have no f***ing idea and it's ok that they stick with the original call either way.

[Omar]

JAYS WIN!..........good game fellas!

 

After playing the Dodgers, everyone else seems so ordinary.

 

[Grant77]

Where was this Jeff Hoffman the other day? Lots of strikes.

Jays win!!!

[Masterbather]

Easy peasy.

[dancingmachine]

Good win

[glory]

Nice to see Hoffman have a nice clean inning after Sunday's meltdown. 

[jerb]

 

[Grant77]

This was such a Berrios start. His stuff looked kind of blah, his K/BB numbers were bad, and he just guts his way through 5 innings and gets the win.

[Spanky__99]

GG what a W... lots of good to take away from that man.

[G-Snarls]

18 minutes ago, Omar said:

Schneids should let Hoffman pitch the 9th just to work out the control issues.

Done

[G-Snarls]

Wow what a great game 

[Spanky__99]

10 minutes ago, Grant77 said:

Where was this Jeff Hoffman the other day? Lots of strikes.

Jays win!!!

No rust. lol... that was the main culprit the other night.

[Jays24]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Torontobluejays/s/mweU6smeMK

Think about the fan response to Shapiro from now to what was going on the past few years.  What a season!!

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, glory said:

Nice to see Hoffman have a nice clean inning after Sunday's meltdown. 

Such an enigma 

[GoBlue41]

Love getting a W in the opening game of a series. Go Jays! 

[G-Snarls]

Holy s*** the Red Sox ass blasted the Astros 

[Brownie19]

Very strong win for the Jays.  Clement just keeps finding a way to contribute.

I remember in the offseason when fans were suggesting a Ha-Seong Kim signing and some (not me) suggested we already had our version of him who makes next to nothing in Clement.  How awesome is it to see that play out to be true.  Love it.

[Orgfiller]

A small note, Ben Brown who relieved Assad yesterday, who didn't even pitch that poorly, got zero Ks. Is that notable? Well coming into the game he had a K/9 above 10, and he pitched 4 innings without a single strikeout, and only 4 whiffs in 55 pitches - 4 in 30 swings. Coming into the game his whiff rate was above 27% (it's reduced from what it used to be but not sure how to check what it was).

The offense is kind of a pain in the ass to face.

[John_Havok]

3 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

Very strong win for the Jays.  Clement just keeps finding a way to contribute.

I remember in the offseason when fans were suggesting a Ha-Seong Kim signing and some (not me) suggested we already had our version of him who makes next to nothing in Clement.  How awesome is it to see that play out to be true.  Love it.

The some would be me. I'll take that W to weigh against the staggering accummulation of Ls

[Laika]

1 hour ago, Orgfiller said:

A small note, Ben Brown who relieved Assad yesterday, who didn't even pitch that poorly, got zero Ks. Is that notable? Well coming into the game he had a K/9 above 10, and he pitched 4 innings without a single strikeout, and only 4 whiffs in 55 pitches - 4 in 30 swings. Coming into the game his whiff rate was above 27% (it's reduced from what it used to be but not sure how to check what it was).

The offense is kind of a pain in the ass to face.

The Jays must be so annoying to face

Reminds me of the no K game against DeGrom 

[AMS528]

41 minutes ago, Laika said:

The Jays must be so annoying to face

Reminds me of the no K game against DeGrom 

It's one of those skills where depending on the game can be awesome, or very frustrating. Awesome when you can chase a pitcher just cause you got them to waste so many pitches by fouling them off etc. Frustrating when it goes bad because everyone put the ball in play for an out after 2 pitches. It's been significantly more good than bad this year though. 

 

[John_Havok]

32 minutes ago, AMS528 said:

It's one of those skills where depending on the game can be awesome, or very frustrating. Awesome when you can chase a pitcher just cause you got them to waste so many pitches by fouling them off etc. Frustrating when it goes bad because everyone put the ball in play for an out after 2 pitches. It's been significantly more good than bad this year though. 

 

It definitely runs hot and cold for sure. The good thing the Jays have in their favour is they also take their walks and have just enough power output to not truly rely on the babip gods to score runs most of the time. 

Early in the season ... terrible to watch. They needed like 5 singles to score one run.