Watch The Raptors Tomorrow

For a sub-.500 team, Friday night was a game that will be lost in the depths of baseball's meat grinder of a regular season. So will tomorrow and the next day.

But to watch in the moment tonight, this shit, man, this shit.

There was decent reason to watch tonight as the Jays opened a series against the San Diego Padres with Cavan Biggio making his debut. For the first time in major league history, two offspring of those enshrined in Cooperstown graced the same line-up card. My apologizes to history that the answer to that trivia question one day will be the 2019 Toronto Blue Jays.

For what seems like the eightieth time this season, the Jays were held hitless through the first time 'round the order. If you squint too hard at the box score, you start to hear Sam Mitchell's zero, zero, zero, zero speech. Only three hits were collected in the hit column all night for the home side. The first two were back to back Yatzhees in the fifth; down 3-0, Freddy Galvis brought the Jays within one and next up, a hopefully reinvigorated Lourdes Gurriel Jr. tied it with his first big league bomb of the season after his recall from Buffalo.

That amounted as run support for Trent Thornton, who was impressive once again. He left the game in the sixth with the game tied at threes and Marcus Stroman salivating at the thought of that type of run support. Thornton finished striking out ten and despite a couple of home runs and walks (robots cannot replace Phil Cuzzi quick enough), he looked again like a win for the front office in the deal that sent Aledmys Diaz to Houston.

And then, the eighth.

Enter Daniel Hudson, another name in a string of completely forgettable relievers employed by the Jays in recent years. After walking Manny Machado, Hudson and Galvis allowed a potential double play comebacker off the bat of overpaid bum Eric Hosmer find its way into centerfield. Hudson responded with two quick strikes to Hunter Renfroe before a what-the-fuck 0-2 fastball that ended up into a Blue Jays bullpen, a bullpen that may not employ Hudson for much longer.

The Blue Jays rallie....no, no they didn't.

Welcome to the bigs, Cavan. Please help.