MLB Rankings: Baseball’s Greatest Hits of Week-24
By Bill Felber
MLB Rankings: Greatest Hits in Week-24
10. Bo Bichette, 36 percent
The Toronto Blue Jays are only 7-9 against the New York Yankees this season, but they hope to change that statistic in the near future with a covey of young talent. Bichette, called up after the All-Star break, is a decided part of that future.
Friday night, during Toronto’s 6-5 extra-inning victory over the Yankees, Bichette gave the Bombers what he hopes will be a foretaste.
His fifth-inning double, after New York had put up five runs in the top of the inning to erase a 3-0 Toronto lead, set up his team’s fourth run. He walked in the seventh, when Toronto tied the game 5-5, and singled in the bottom of the ninth, although nothing came of that hit.
But when the teams came up scoreless through the 11th and Wilmer Font set down New York in the top of the 12th, Bichette led off the bottom of the inning. Yankee reliever Tyler Lyons, who had set down Toronto in order in the 11th, delivered a ball and a strike, then hung a breaking ball belt high on the inside part of the plate. Bichette made short work of it, pounding the pitch over the wall in left-center to close the 6-5 win.