Blue Jays score a million runs off Red Sox mistakes, a breakdown
What Happened
In a late July 2022 weekend series in Toronto, the Blue Jays buried the Red Sox under a pile of Boston defensive miscues. Jomboy breaks down a single ugly stretch where Nathan Eovaldi walks in a run with the bases loaded before getting pulled, then Austin Davis induces the pop-up he wanted only to watch the Boston outfield botch it badly. Raimel Tapia turns the dropped fly into an inside-the-park home run while Alex Verdugo races over from another position to retrieve the ball. The errors kept coming across multiple innings, with dropped pop-ups, a throwing error, and routine outs that never got recorded, leading to a final score that ballooned past 20 runs.
Why This Matters
This game was peak rock-bottom for a 2022 Red Sox club that would finish last in the AL East. The scoring quirk Jomboy flags is the real story: a pop-up that no fielder touches can't be ruled an error, so runs that scored only because of butchered defense still count as earned against the pitchers. That's why a staff that pitched fine on paper got tagged with a brutal line. Toronto, meanwhile, was building a Wild Card push, and games like this padded their run differential without much resistance. The inside-the-park homer off a misplayed fly is the kind of thing you see a few times a season, almost always born from a communication breakdown rather than raw speed. For Boston, it foreshadowed a collapse that cost them a playoff spot.
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Players: Aaron Judge. Teams: Red Sox, Blue Jays.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentThe Red Sox are playing some of the worst baseball you'll ever see and the Blue Jays took full
advantage of it last weekend. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. Evaldi's on the
bump. He's already given up six runs, two on but two outs. One more out, get out of this.
One more out, get out of this. Ball one, ball two, ball three. Now he does have the open base,
force everywhere. Ball four, not what he was trying to do at all. And Cora's like, hmm, okay,
well that's my kind of one good starter right now and this stinks. I guess we'll have to go to
the bullpen. He's like, should I really do it? Should I do it? Should I do it? Oh damn, gotta do
it. Not what he wanted. So Austin Davis comes in. He's got a bases loaded jam, but he only needs one
out. One pop-up and he's golden. Tapia's up. He's looking to do more than just pop-up. First pitch,
pop-up. Damn, he's
bummed. Hangs his head. But don't worry. Red Sox don't catch fly balls these days. Where is it?
Where is it? Oh, way behind you, man. On the warning track. You're not running after it? Oh,
gets it in, but Tapia's hustling too. The helmet kicks off. The feet are kicking. Look at the third
base coach waving him. Look at his teammates saying, get down, get down, get down, even though
they didn't need to. It's just more dramatic that way. Red Sox fans have no idea what hit them.
No idea what hit them.
They're just celebrating, having fun. It's 10 to nothing. Now, Evaldi's thinking, I could have
done that. I could have let in those three runs. I could have given up a pop-up. Cora's like, are
they sabotaging me? What, what, what? And tongue out, having fun, enjoying it. Ah, tongue in. But
a little smirk here. Like, maybe this gets me out of this. Oh, pressure. Not happy. Wasn't his plan.
Wasn't his plan either. He planned on hitting a real home run, not an inside the park home run,
but fun is fun. Comes all the way in. Verdugo,
Verdugo read his misread right away. Sprinted after it. I do find it. Nice slide. Nice pop-up
play. Do find it odd. I know that Verdugo might've been faster to the ball, but that his natural
reaction wasn't to sprint after it is odd to me. I think it's jarring for everyone. Tapia with a nice
slide. Ah, fun everywhere. And this didn't end. The next inning, they're one out away from getting
out of the inning and we have a hit by pitch and then a little swing and bunt to the pitcher. Great
out of the inning. No,
they throw it away. And what are the Blue Jays do? Take full advantage. The next batter hits a
three run home run. An error with two outs leads to a big home run to make it. Now it's 15 to three.
All right. Fifth inning. Now there's two outs again, two outs again with two on and they get
the pop-up they want to get out of it, but no one decides to catch it. Oh my goodness. So the Blue
Jays score run. And now core is thinking this is sabotage. What's happening here? They don't like
it. And then a ball, a walk, another two out hit drops in. If they caught that pop-up, they're out of
the inning instead. Now Toppy goes for a real home run. Just misses, just misses, but that's going to
be an RBIW up to 19 runs. Vladdy peppers the wall. That's going to be more runs. Of course, thinking
what in the hell is this my fault? 21 runs. Now, if they caught that pop-up, they would have been
out of the inning. And now Blue Jays brought it in. They're out of the inning. They're out of the
inning. They're out of the inning. They're out of the inning. And now the Red Sox starts missing
swings because they're just showing the, the dugout so much. And another two out run. Now they're
showing the catcher and they missed that pitch really. And now it's going to bloop in and they
score. I think it's 11 runs with two outs all unearned because they dropped that pop-up, but
it's actually earned because if you don't touch the ball, it can't be an error, which is just a
dumb scoring system. And they finally get out of it. And the Red Sox fans cheer, cheer, cheer for
team standing ovation for getting out of the inning, bad times in Boston. I tell you, if you
are a Blue Jays fan and you're, have you noticed that the away broadcast is really feel like a home
broadcast for the other team? I think because of COVID rules, the Blue Jays are the only team that
are not sending an away crew because you're seeing the same exact thing on the home and the away
feed. This is what they all did in 2020. But I noticed that the Blue Jays still did it in the
series. Maybe they're not going to do it again. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
all season. So that's just something I noticed. Thanks to DraftKings for sponsoring the video.
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