Blue Jays 2, Palms 0

 Thursday, June 18, 2020 – Coca-Cola Palms Park

By Vin Castillo

Two nights. Eighteen innings. Zero runs.

The Miami Palms dropped their second straight 2–0 decision to Toronto on Thursday, wasting another strong starting performance and sending a quiet clubhouse into an off-day flight west.

If Wednesday felt frustrating, Thursday felt eerily familiar.

Toronto scratched across a run in the second inning when Travis Shaw delivered an RBI single, then added another in the seventh on Cavan Biggio’s sacrifice fly. That was it. Six hits. One walk. Two runs.

And somehow, it was enough again.

Jarod Lantz gave Miami exactly what they needed — eight innings, two runs, five strikeouts, just one walk. He pitched ahead in counts, limited traffic, and kept Toronto from landing anything resembling a knockout blow.

But Hyun-Jin Ryu was sharper.

Ryu carved through the Palms for eight shutout innings, scattering eight hits while walking no one. Miami put runners aboard in five different innings and finished with nine hits overall — more than Toronto — yet never managed to string together the one swing that mattered.

Emilio Miranda continued his torrid stretch with two more hits, raising his average to .400 since the call-up. Edwin Encarnación and Matt Wieters each added two-hit nights. The opportunities were there.

The breakthrough wasn’t.

Brock Holt grounded into a rally-killing double play. Greg Garcia stranded three. Yairo Muñoz left two aboard. The pattern was consistent: contact, but no damage.

Closer Ken Giles handled the ninth for his third save against Miami, and just like that the series ended in a sweep that felt suffocating rather than explosive.

The Palms fall to 39–37, and more notably, they’ve now been shut out in back-to-back games after entering the week as one of the more reliable offenses in the league.

The good news? The pitching is holding.

The bad news? The margin is evaporating.

Next Up: Three in Chicago

Miami heads to face the Chicago White Sox for a three-game set — a timely change of scenery for a lineup that desperately needs to exhale.

After 18 consecutive scoreless innings, the reset may matter as much mentally as mechanically. The Palms don’t need to overhaul anything. They need a crooked number early, a swing that releases tension, something that reminds them what momentum feels like.

Because right now, they’re playing good baseball.

They’re just not scoring.

 Toronto Blue Jays 2, Miami Palms 0

 Thursday, June 18, 2020

 

 

 Toronto Blue Jays (7-1)                                  Miami Palms (39-37)                                     

 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      

 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      

 Bichette ss     4  0  0  0  0  1  4  4  0  2   .313      Munoz ss        4  0  1  0  0  1  0  3  0  2   .291

 Gurriel, Jr. lf 4  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0   .375      Koch 2b         4  0  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  0   .264

 Guerrero, Jr. 3b3  0  1  0  1  1  0  1  0  0   .250      Grant 1b        4  0  0  0  0  2  6  0  0  1   .294

 Grichuk cf      3  1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  0   .500      Encarnacion dh  4  0  2  0  0  1  0  0  0  0   .259

 Fisher dh       4  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  2   .310      Wieters c       4  0  2  0  0  0  7  0  0  1   .249

 Hernandez rf    4  0  1  0  0  1  4  0  0  1   .250      Miranda rf      4  0  2  0  0  0  6  0  0  0   .400

 Biggio 2b       3  1  1  1  0  0  0  3  0  0   .321      Holt lf         4  0  0  0  0  0  5  0  0  1   .245

 Shaw 1b         4  0  1  1  0  0  12 0  0  1   .357      Garcia 3b       4  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  3   .217

 Jansen c        3  0  1  0  0  0  6  0  0  0   .222      Sohn cf         3  0  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  0   .271

 

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---            

 Totals          32 2  6  2  1  6  27 9  0  6             Totals          35 0  9  0  0  5  27 6  0  8  

 

 

                           1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10     R  H  E

                           -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -

 Toronto Blue Jays         0  1  0  0  0  0  1  0  0         2  6  0  

 Miami Palms               0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0         0  9  0  

 

 

 

 LOB- Toronto Blue Jays 6, Miami Palms 8; 2B- Biggio(4), Miranda(1); 3B- Jansen(1);

 RBI- Shaw(10), Biggio(5); SF- Biggio(1); GIDP- Holt(3); RLSP- Bichette, Shaw, Garcia 3,

 Holt, Munoz;  

 

 DP- Toronto Blue Jays 1;  

  

 

 

 Toronto Blue Jays            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Ryu(W 2-0)                   8.0  8  0  0  0  5    0.60  

 Giles(S, 3)                  1.0  1  0  0  0  0    0.00  

 

 Miami Palms                  IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Lantz(L 1-4)                 8.0  6  2  2  1  5    5.00  

 Allen                        1.0  0  0  0  0  1    4.21  

 

 Pitches-strikes- Ryu 96-67, Giles 15-9, Lantz 95-64, Allen 8-5; Batters faced- Ryu 31,

 Giles 4, Lantz 32, Allen 3; 


 HBP- Grichuk(by Lantz);  

 

  

 Temp - 78, Sky - Cloudy, Wind - NNE 8MPH 

 

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