Three things: Jays’ Kevin Gausman leaves opening -game loss after being hit by line drive

’ 6-2 loss to the Rays at Rogers Centre in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader:With all due respect to Alek Manoah, who is having a fantastic season, Tampa Bay lefty Shane McClanahan is the front-runner for the American League Cy Young Award and he showed why in the opener, shutting down the high-flying Jays offence, which had scored 31 runs in the first five games of this homestand.

Bo Bichette doubled in the first inning and scored on a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. single and that was it. McClanahan dazzled, with a killer changeup that worked beautifully off his 98-miles-per-hour fastball, and he allowed just one hit after that first inning, striking out 10 over seven innings.Surviving a scare

The crowd of 39,426 at Rogers Centre held their collective breath when Kevin Gausman took a 100-m.p.h. line drive from Wander Franco off his right ankle and dropped to the turf in the top of the second inning. The right-hander, who is in the top 10 in the AL in ERA and strikeouts, lay face down on the turf in obvious pain for a few moments. He eventually walked off the field under his own power and X-rays were negative.

His next scheduled start is Thursday, the opener of the Jays’ series in Seattle, though that seems optimistic.Casey Lawrence took over for Gausman to start the third inning and, on three days’ rest after a 99-pitch start for Buffalo, worked into the eighth, leaving the Jays with a fully rested bullpen for the nightcap.

Lawrence gave up six runs, but three of them came in a fifth inning in which the Rays got three ground-ball singles, two of which never left the infield, and a bloop hit.

Thankfully it's looking very much like Gausman is OK as in game 2 Hatch hatched a poop pile on the mound, maybe a better day tomorrow with Stripling on the mound

Nope. Nope, there's zero things I need to know about BOTH losses today 😐

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