If I told you that, for five innings, Alex Cobb kept the Blue Jays hitless, drew a ton of weak contact, and pitched into the seventh inning, you’d conclude he’d had a great outing, correct? Eh. Sort of. This one figured to be a Battle of the Starters, and while Cobb looked really good tonight, the results weren’t quite there.
Cobb’s first two innings were masterful. It took him all of twelve pitches to slice and dice his way through the Blue Jays’ first six hitters. Cavan Biggio, Randal Grichuk, and Travis Shaw made quick outs in the first: a sonorous pop fly, a hard grounder at Rio Ruiz, and a deep sac fly to stand-in LF Pat Valaika.