Everything about the biggest day of Alek Manoah’s young and upwardly trending career was following the usual, scripted detail.
Everything was on point until the Jays ace hit the mound for what would be a disaster of a first inning in his playoff debut.
With that, the team that surged with such success over the past month and was heavily favoured going into the game, will look to starter Kevin Gausman to battle them back into the best-of-three series in a Game 2 that will arrive in rapid order. The entirety of Manoah’s outing wasn’t a mess — he allowed four hits and four runs over 5.2 innings — but given the pitching the Jays were facing, even a 3-0 deficit seemed insurmountable.
“ was throwing 100-mile-an our sinkers,” Jays manager John Schneider said. “He had really good stuff today. We managed our hits and our at-bats were decent. couldn’t get the big hit when we got guys on base.”tap here to see other videos from our teamThough they may have slipped to the third seed in the AL wild-card race, the M’s were always going to be dangerous because of their pitching.
Given Manoah’s off-the-charts intensity, it was a loss the big righty will take hard, given the impact he’s had on his team in this his first complete season in the bigs.
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