Pretend you hadn’t seen the score of today’s game. If I were to tell you that the Rays starter only went four innings, that the team hit no home runs and struck out sixteen times, wouldn’t you have assumed they must have lost?
Instead, they scored seven. Five walks and two hit batters helped them parlay their eight hits into several crooked number innings. And thanks to some steady bullpen performances they held their opponents to a single run.
The top of the first nearly turned disastrous quickly — the Jays got two quick (if hard) outs.