I don’t really think of baseball as a sport where momentum plays a big role. In basketball or ice hockey, you can feel palpable shifts in energy. But in baseball, however well your inning went, at some point it ends and the other team still gets their chance.
But tonight’s game felt like a game of momentum shifts. The very hot Rays took on a Blue Jays team that has also been playing well. The starters, Ryan Yarbrough and Matt Shoemaker, had both pitched in the recent series in Buffalo.
A few lead changes and mood shifts later, the Blue Jays had secured a 6-5 win in ten innings to take the first game of the series.