Jays Blow Late Lead, Lose Series vs. Rays
5/6/202632 min
Jeff Blair and Kevin Barker break down the Blue Jays' 4-3 loss vs. the Rays to also lose the series down in Florida. They take your calls and texts, and get right to that fateful eighth inning - should Louis Varland have been deployed against the meat of the Rays order over Rogers? How much blame does Rogers deserve for that inning? Plus, they discuss Brandon Valenzuela's up-and-down game, Yohendrick Piñango continuing to look good, the offensive output for Daulton Varsho, and the outing from Kevin Gausman.
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First 90 secondsJeff Blair· Host0:00
[upbeat music] All right, folks, you're gonna have to help me out at 416-870-0590, star 590, 1-888-660-590. If you wanna help me out in the text line, please feel free to do that, 590-590 is the text line. Name and location, please. I'll let Kevin Barker, uh, help me out a bit here after that 4-3 loss to the Rays. Um, listen, I understand that, uh, we have a bullpen by committee, uh, in Toronto now. Um, I also know that, well, I, you know, I've heard that Louie Varland is probably the most important part of that committee, but I have yet to hear anybody say he's the closer. Kevin Barker, I'm wondering why tonight, the one-run lead on the road, you go to Tyler Rogers in the eighth inning with two, three, four, five, with the meat of the order coming up, and a very good meat of the order coming up. Now, n- nothing against Tyler Rogers, but Tyler Rogers is gonna get balls put in play. He's not striking anybody out. And I guess my question is, I also have a question about what the hell Brandon Valenzuela's doing bunting in the second inning. We can talk about that, uh, in a minute. Were you surprised to see Tyler Rogers come in