Carlos Villanueva has been quietly pitching his ass off out of the bullpen this season. The long man out of the pen has been composed and effective. And Villanueva definitely brought it against the Yankees last night in his spot start . Other than his unfortunate tendency to walk Curtis Granderson and then letting him score, Villanueva was pretty much perfect. "Even in a starting role, it didn't change his demeanor. It didn't change his mound presence or his body language," Farrell said. "[He's] very composed, a very good pitcher."

Yunel Escobar hit clean up last night, much the ire of a select few on Twitter. Here's the thing: Farrell has done it once. If it becomes a thing, then maybe make a stink. But it hasn't. As for Escobar bunting in the cleanup spot, that was indeed weird. But at the time, runs seemed at a premium, and Farrell isn't afraid to experiment a bit to manufacture runs. And ew, I just said manufacture runs. At least it wasn't as alarming the idea of Dave Winfield bunting, which was the last time a cleanup hitter bunted. I'm not that into either scenario, but I'm happy it worked out. Let's never speak of it again.

Colon was a bit of a mess last night and it really hit the fan in the 6th. Here's how it went: a Patterson lead off double, IBB Bautista, Escobar sacrifice bunt, IBB Rivera, Hill RBI single, BB to Thames and an Arencibia RBI double.

Perhaps Colon was upset by Escobar hitting cleanup, and was outraged by the idea of a cleanup hitter bunting. Because after he intentionally walked Jose Bautista, things got a little ridiculous. The Yankees tried again to get a double play by intentionally walking Juan Rivera. Colon gave up a single to Aaron Hill and then unintentionally walked Eric Thames.

The intentional walk followed by the unintentional walk is one of my favourite moments in the game, because it illustrates beautifully a certain kind of ineptness. And then JP Arencibia did his part by thoroughly punishing the Yankees for thinking they could ever pitch around Jose Bautista by hitting a base clearing double. Bautista had already gotten his Monday homer out of the way in the first, his ML leading 19th of the season.

Bautista is apparently the toast of New York, so much so that the Jays organized a pre-game press scrum where writers could ask Bautista to talk about how awesome he is just the once, rather than a dozen times. Pitching around Bautista is going to become a problem because he just isn't a secret anymore. "It was not satisfying that they pitched around me, but it's huge that we scored a lot of runs," Bautista said. "We need to show teams that every person in this lineup is capable of causing damage, and we did that tonight."

You hear that, baseball? Jose Bautista demands satisfaction.