Drafted fourth overall 19 years ago, Jason Grilli has developed a certain appreciation for meaningful baseball in September.
Forget about October.
In order to even get to that point, the games in the ninth month on the calendar need to matter first.
That has the 39-year-old savouring this Toronto Blue Jays run, even if the month of September, up to this point anyway, hasn’t exactly been what the club was hoping for.
Fresh off a 4-3 road trip the West Coast, one that provided glimpses of playoff-calibre baseball out of the birds in blue but also reminders of a middling 8-12 record they’ve saddled themselves with since the start of the month, Grilli and the Blue Jays are happy to be home.