Blue Jays starting pitchers bond over meals together on the road

TORONTO - As the Toronto Blue Jays prepared for a three-game interleague series in New York against the Mets this weekend their starting rotation did some additional research: looking for the best restaurants. I think we all just genuinely like each other and want to spend time with each other,” said Bassitt. After the starter warms up, the pitchers on their off day walk with him from Toronto’s bullpen to the dugout. Everybody’s funny.”The other one that sticks out was The Pearl, a restaurant in Tampa, Fla., that Bassitt and Manoah discovered. “And we won that day so we went back the next day.”“We didn’t win the next day though,” laughed Bassitt.