Blue Jays’ bullpen, offence eases loss of Romano to take series win over Angels

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Published 29.07.2023

Blue Jays’ bullpen, offence eases loss of Romano to take series win over Angels

TORONTO – Painful as it’s shutting Jordan Romano down for 2 weeks, placing the all-star nearer on the 15-day injured listing with decrease again irritation was the suitable factor to do. Already as soon as, popping out of the all-star sport when the harm first occurred, the Toronto Blue Jays day-to-day’d their means by way of his absence. Once prepared, they used him 4 instances in 5 days just for his again to lock up once more when he retook the mound after three days of relaxation. The recurrence is a chance for the 30-year-old to try to get rid of the difficulty forward of an important video games of the 12 months, when the Blue Jays will assuredly heap a great deal of leverage on him.

Still, with Tuesday’s 6 p.m. ET commerce deadline looming, his absence can also be a warning for the Blue Jays, who deftly survived Saturday with out Romano because of the work of Genesis Cabrera, Jay Jackson, Trevor Richards, Nate Pearson and Yimi Garcia in a 6-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels.

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Between Garcia, Tim Mayza and Erik Swanson, the latter of whom had been down after pitching Friday, the Blue Jays nonetheless have a trio of strong late-game choices which might be bolstered by Nate Pearson, again as much as take Romano’s spot, and, comparatively quickly, the rehabbing Chad Green.

But depth can evaporate shortly and with Swanson (eight video games and 5 innings from matching his earlier profession highs out of the bullpen), Mayza and Garcia rating among the many high 12 in video games pitched, their workloads have to be managed.

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Potentially exacerbating that’s the Blue Jays’ plan to run a six-man rotation starting Tuesday, when Hyun Jin Ryu returns Tuesday to start out towards the Baltimore Orioles, which suggests the bullpen will solely have seven relievers in it for the foreseeable future.

All of that provides as much as further danger, which the Blue Jays ought to mitigate by including not solely a depth reliever, however a leverage arm able to defending them within the short-term whereas Romano recuperates and boosting them as soon as he returns.

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Helping out the Blue Jays’ relievers on this one was a two-run homer from Santiago Espinal within the fifth that opened up a 2-1 lead after the Angels went forward within the high half when Alek Manoah hit Taylor Ward within the head with the bases loaded, plus two house runs from Alejandro Kirk that pushed the sport out of attain.