This was written prior to Sunday’s game. While I expect it will get better this season, it hasn’t gotten better yet. It actually got a little worse.

The season's first two games were mostly fun, especially in the opening game, but all of it was also kind of a hot mess. I enjoyed all the baserunning, all the bloop hits, and the quality pitching from Pop and Jordan Romano in Game One. A back-and-forth kind of game is especially fun when your team is triumphant.

Saturday's game was incredibly frustrating. They had endless chances to push runs across and didn't until late in the game, and then it was just one.

The Cardinals starter did not have command of any of his pitches. It started out well where the Jays were taking pitches and taking the walks but it felt like the pressure was starting to get to them and they were searching for that big hit that never came.

Kevin Gausman deserved better than what he got Saturday. He came with what he was supposed to do and I really wish the hitters had shown up and pulled him out of whatever small amount of trouble he got into.

It all just illustrated a certain core truth about baseball: One thing will be true one day (the Blue Jays can manufacture nine runs, are excellent baserunners, and pull their pitchers out of trouble) is completely different the next game (the Blue Jays, despite having stellar pitching, couldn’t manufacture any sort of offence, though they were given ample opportunity.) It’s why baseball is fun, and also the worst.

Buck Martinez declared that it was “time for the first homer” during a Guerrero AB early on in the Saturday game. So if they have some sort of homer drought, you know which well-coiffed broadcaster is to blame.