Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 0

 

Okay, we're not going to sweep this home series, I can handle that, but now the Jays went and clinched the series win, winning game two, 3-0. Are we about to get swept at home?

At this point, I usually go over the game highlights, but there were none yesterday. The Sox are 15½ games back from first place in the AL East and 5½ games back from qualifying for a Wild Card spot, with five other teams in the playoff standings ahead of them.

Boston pins its hopes to avoid a sweep on Sonny Gray (8-1, 3.03) this afternoon (1:35). But it doesn't matter how well Gray pitches if the Red Sox batters can't manage any runs. All week, they've gotten only one run, a Jarren Duran solo homer in the eighth inning on Tuesday. Gray could go nine innings and hold the Jays to only one run, and Boston could still lose the game.

Meanwhile, in the Pribilof Islands, the harbormaster on St. Paul has finally put the docks in the water, meaning that the Yeva can soon be launched and Capt. Ella Hibbert can re-start her circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean and give us some distraction from this wretched Red Sox season.