The view from Deep Left Field on the Blue Jays’ 3-0 loss to the Mets in New York on Friday:The vaunted Blue Jays’ offence didn’t do much vaunting as they opened up an interleague series in Flushing Meadows against the first-place Mets. There’s no concern for this offence, it’s just part of the ebbs and flows of a 162-game season. You can’t be faulted for thinking Megill might have been another one of those mediocre pitchers who shut the Blue Jays down the first time they see him, since that does seem to happen quite a bit (the operative word being “seem”). They say it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish, but that’s not how Friday night went for the Blue Jays’ lefty. He threw 5 2/3 innings of two-hit shutout ball following the homer, allowing a couple of soft singles and striking out five, but with the Jays offence being completely stymied it was already too late.

Source: thestar July 24, 2021 02:15 UTC