On a Friday night in Houston, two baseball teams carrying the quiet weight of early-season uncertainty met at Minute Maid Park — one leading its division despite offensive wounds, the other hosting a returning legend. The matchup between Toronto and Houston was less a contest of firepower than a study in restraint, where pitching excellence and the failure to convert opportunity into runs shaped the evening's philosophical center. In the long arc of a baseball season, some games are defined not by what happens, but by what is withheld.
Toronto Sun
· Apr 22, 2022
· society
· 6 min de lectura
Medium
Verificación: Caracterizado
Blue Jays Face Verlander Test in Houston; Under 8.5 Favored
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