CLEVELAND (AP) – The wind swept through Progressive Field, the rain never stopped and the temperature made it look more like mid-November than a May.
“It’s the best typhoon for a baseball game,” Toronto base joe said Joe Panik.
The Blue Jays resisted.
Hyun Jin Ryu recovered after a difficult first inning that fought strong winds and rainy baseball and Panik and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. scored three runs each, taking the Blue Jays to the Cleveland Indians 11-2 on Friday night in a game canceled in seventh.
For more than two hours, teams, referees and enthusiasts endured winds with forty-five mph gusts and constant rains that made the activities miserable.
“It’s one of the worst situations I’ve ever seen,” Indian technician Terry Francona said.
Major league baseball hit hard through bad weather to start the holiday weekend, while games in Washington, New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago were rainy and one in Boston delayed before being stopped after six innings.
This one’s probably never started.
“I probably played worse in Canada,” Indian gardener Josh Naylor said of Mississauga, Ontario. “I mean it, the lawn was wet, it kept raining, the rain was spinning in other ways. It’s baseball.
Panik hit a two-run home run in the third to put the score 6-2 against Eli Morgan (0-1), who would possibly make his primary league debut more for bad weather than anything else.
“I feel bad for him,” Francona said of the 25-year-old, who was retired from Triple-A Columbus. “I don’t know how you rate this outing. I think he was going to fly off the mound. “It was a complicated task.
Panik had four hits and Santiago Espinal also had three RBIs for the Blue Jays, who played their home games in the Florida sun but soon moved to Buffalo.
With Naylor leading the seventh, team leader Bill Miller saw two shots through Trent Thornton before greeting the team at the checkout. After a 36-minute wait, the canvas did not come out for 30 minutes, the game was nevertheless released.
“I think the pitcher slipped, ” said Francona. ” And Bill Miller had already approached the entrance and said that by the time something happens, we must protect the players. And I fully perceive it. It was a complicated night to say the least. “
It is the first meeting between Toronto and Cleveland since 2019.
Ryu (5-2) allowed two runs, either in the first, and four hits in five innings, however, the left-hander shook 32 pitches and settled in to win his fourth consecutive decision. allowing more than one step in one of its first nine openings in 2021.
“That’s why ryu is, ” said Panik, that’s why he’s our ace. Whatever the conditions, he’s going to find a way.
Helped through a whipped wind that made everything hit the air out for the fielders, the Blue Jays scored four runs in Morgan’s third inlet.
Randal Grichuk connected a single driven. Gurriel Jr. do a double in a forehand race that deceived Naylor and Panik crashed her first home run since September with the wind, which stretched the flags of the United States and Canada to the edge of their poles beyond the middle field.
The Blue Jays added three more runs in the fifth with a two-run double from Gurriel and a single producer of Panik.
Morgan, 25, scored six runs and eight hits in two innings and two-thirds.
“Yes, it’s strange, ” said Morgan about his first taste of the major league ball. “Fortunately, all day long, I wonder if we could start the game. Very grateful for that. “
Eddie Rosario’s two-run bachelor gave the Indians a 2-0 lead in the first, but Toronto temporarily tied the scoring at the time with a RBI roletazo from Espinal and a raised left center from Danny Jansen that replaced management and became a double.
SMOKING TITO
Francona, who earned her 700th win with Cleveland on Thursday, will leave the weekend to attend her youngest daughter Jamie’s wedding in Newport, Rhode Island.
“I’m wearing a tuxedo,” said Francona, who is still behind from out-of-season toe surgery. “I have a new boot logo and everything for the wedding. “
Bench coach DeMarlo Hale will update Francona, who will return in time for Cleveland’s doubles program Monday against the White Soo.
COACH ROOM
Indians: OF Jordan Luplow has been on the 10-day injury list with an ankle challenge that has annoyed him since spring training. He underwent an MRI on the extent of the injury.
Next
Indian rookie Sam Hentges (1-1, 6. 20) opposed Toronto’s Ross Stripling (0-3, 5. 63).
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