[Cyrus09]

The second series of the season ended up as a rollercoaster for the Blue Jays.

- first game was a commanding 9-2 win. Vlad homered again and brought home 4 runs, but he also got plenty of support by his teammates. Cavan Biggio walked 2 times and scored both times, Davis Schneider hit 2/5, Danny Jansen even 3/5. On defense it was a suprisingly good game by Alek Manoah, whos position in the rotation was questionable to start the season

- the second game brought the hot start of the Blue Jays to a bitter end: In the battle of the aces Verlander completely controlled the game. In the end it was a 6-4 win for the Astros, but only after Verlander ended his day in the 7th inning the Blue Jays scored for the first time. Gausman on the other end gave up 5 runs in the third, caught himself after that and made it to 6.2 innings, but it was just too much.

- the third game started horrible: Starter Chris Bassitt popped out his shoulder after 1 out in the game and now is missing up to two months of game action. The Blue Jays still won the game, but that loss is still hard to manage now. Big factor of the win was that the Astros heavily rotated their lineup and just couldn't create offense, even against the Blue Jays that had to go deep into the bullpen

I didn't really decide yet how I handle the hole in the rotation now. Calling up Tiedemann already? Give the spot to Bowden Francis for the time? Or taking Erik Swanson out of the bullpen for the few games Bassitt is missing?

Next up are the Yankees, who started 5-2 as well. And since the Red Sox started 6-1 as well there is not much room for error yet.