00:00What a pitching matchup Justin Verlander for the Giants and Chris Bassett for the Blue Jays as these two teams open up the so-called unofficial in air quotes second half. There's actually only 66 games remaining 96 down 66 to go. Now it's two and one. Here it comes. Yeah swings and it's a base hit in the right center field. It was a low liner hit the turf and then skipped on through. So Yaz is aboard and here now is Elliot Ramos.
00:30Ramos rips one in the left field so a very hard hit line drive base hit and the first two are aboard for the Giants to start this game. That is a great swing one or two off the bat bullet in the left field. So now with two men on and nobody out here's Rafael Devers who's had many games in this ballpark over the years with the Red Sox in the American League and Devers hits a ground ball to second and the Blue Jays will turn the double play. How big is that with a guy as dangerous as Devers at the plate.
01:00So runner at third two down and another familiar face now for the Giants former Blue J. Matt Chapman is the batter his second year for the Giants.
01:10Next pitch hit on the ground picked up at third base Wagner shuffles throws over to first to get the old Blue J. third baseman Chapman.
01:18They leave one runner on third and there's no score in the game middle of the first inning.
01:22Passett steps back kicks and the three two.
01:26Fastball caught him looking strike three.
01:28Adam is upset.
01:30Don't totally blame him but there's one out in the end.
01:32Yeah it might have been off the plate just a little bit but again Alejandro Kirk does such a good job stealing that strike making it look like he's catching it maybe three or four inches closer to the middle of home plate.
01:45I mean that's that's impressive back there.
01:47One out base is empty the one two.
01:49Lee out to right center toward the gap that's going to get down base hit a hop and Lee will take the big turn but go back.
01:58Lucas in center field keeps him to a one out single.
02:02Three one at Schmidt lines one to the left.
02:04A solid single Giants already have four hits in this game.
02:09Hit on the ground a second Clement over to his left picks it up slings back to second one over to first inning ending double play.
02:154-6-3 again Chris Passett getting a ton of ground balls as he's pitched two scoreless innings at Rodgers center.
02:25Off of Verlander that slows it down and Barger's going to reach.
02:30Looks like Verlander is okay.
02:31Maybe it got a lot of his glove.
02:33It looked like it got him right around the palm but maybe toward the end.
02:36And now here's Alejandro Kirk.
02:38And he pulls one in the hole and that's going to get through.
02:42That's the second seeing eye base hit the Blue Jays have had tonight.
02:46They've got runners at first and second with nobody out.
02:48Goes the Blue Jays way.
02:50Loperfito did not square there.
02:51Now it's 2-0.
02:52Backing off now Dom Smith at first base playing behind the runner.
02:562-0.
02:57Hit on the ground down the right field line.
02:59Base hit.
03:00Coming around third base Barger.
03:02He'll score easily.
03:04Up to third goes Kirk.
03:05Loperfito at second with an RBI double.
03:07It's 1-0 Blue Jays.
03:09Bottom of the second.
03:10John Schneider chooses to let Joey Loperfito swing away.
03:14He thinks he's going to get a hittable fastball.
03:16One out.
03:17Runners on second and third.
03:18Bottom of the second inning.
03:19Left-handed hitting Wagner.
03:21Brings the bat above his left shoulder.
03:24Hit hard and down the right field line.
03:28And not only will it get Kirk in, it'll get Loperfito in as well.
03:32It's a two-run double for Will Wagner.
03:35Oh, what a nice piece of hitting by Will Wagner.
03:37He gets a curveball from Verlander and it comes right down into the barrel.
03:41He drills this ball into the right field corner.
03:44Another 2-2.
03:45Hit on the ground through the right side of base hit.
03:48Getting the wave around third Wagner.
03:50The throw will go into the cutoff man.
03:52Ramos has Wagner cross his home plate.
03:55Blue Jays up 4-0 in the second on Nathan Lucas' RBI single.
03:59Well, that's just a good approach from Nathan Lucas.
04:01Again, he got the mistake at the bottom of the strike zone.
04:04Not over the heart of the plate.
04:06But Nathan Lucas does a good job getting the barrel to it, finding a hole.
04:11Now Springer with a base hit and a right center.
04:14Lucas will make the turn and head to third.
04:17Man, everybody looks rested and refreshed, don't they, Joe?
04:20This is what you love to see coming out of the break.
04:25And now Springer's running and they're going to concede the back.
04:28There's that stolen base he had earlier.
04:30He'll take that.
04:32Ooh, and Bichette gets hit by a 95-mile-an-hour fastball and is feeling it.
04:39He is headed down to first.
04:41And John Schneider and Jose Minestral are trying to catch up to him to see what's going on.
04:46Bo Bichette right in the ribs.
04:48My goodness, that is a tough place to get hit.
04:51This is a team, frankly, ravaged by injuries right now.
04:54After John Schneider gave us about 10 injury updates today,
04:57the last thing they need is more guys being banged up.
05:01It looks like Bichette is all right.
05:03Now here is the left-handed batting, Addison Barger.
05:06Four runs and six hits in the inning for the Blue Jays.
05:09Here's the pitch.
05:10Swing and popped up.
05:12Second baseman Casey Schmidt is under it.
05:14Drifting back onto the outfield turf.
05:16He's got it.
05:17And finally the inning is over.
05:200-2 pitch.
05:22Rolled over toward third.
05:24A swinging bunt.
05:24That could be trouble.
05:25Kirk hustling down the line.
05:27Chapman just watches it stay fair on the ground.
05:31Infield single for Alejandro Kirk.
05:33Well, that doesn't happen all that often.
05:35Matt Chapman was playing way back.
05:37How about Joey Loperfito getting his best swing off for the second time tonight?
05:43Had an RBI double in the second.
05:44He's got a base hit here in the third.
05:46He delivers.
05:47Ground ball to short to his left.
05:49Adamus has it.
05:49The second for one.
05:50Schmidt over the first.
05:52Two.
05:52A double play.
05:53That was a big one.
05:54It was a strikeout so far by Verlander.
05:57For those who might have been looking to save for a long Verlander outing, though, that will not come.
06:01Bob Melvin makes the point to the bullpen in right field.
06:04And Verlander out of this game after three and two-thirds, rather two and two-thirds.
06:10Adamus has started to heat up.
06:12Coming into tonight, hitting 295 in July.
06:15Seven extra base hits, 12 RBIs in 12 July games.
06:192-2 pitch.
06:20Swing and a miss.
06:21He got him.
06:22Sweeper actually landed in the zone at the bottom of it.
06:25But Adamus was so far in front of it that his bat was way out of the zone.
06:29Tell you what, he's looking pretty good.
06:30He is looking good.
06:312-2.
06:32Swing and a miss.
06:33He got him.
06:34Blows a 91-mile-per-hour cutter.
06:37Pass it with two strikeouts in a 1-2-3 top of the fourth.
06:40Chris Bassett remains on the hill as we start the top of the seventh inning in Toronto.
06:48Casey Schmidt hits a weak ground ball back towards the mound.
06:51And that's a quick and easy first out here in the top of the seventh.
06:55So far, Bassett's making it look easy now.
06:58Here's a hard grounder past the mound and into center field.
07:01Basehead.
07:02Smith with his first hit and the Giants' ninth hit of the game.
07:05Bailey, a 2-0-5 hitter with two home runs on the season.
07:093-1 pitch.
07:10Bailey swings and lines one up the middle.
07:12Into center field.
07:13Basehead.
07:14Kind of a soft liner.
07:15He hit it off the end of the bat.
07:16And it was on a line toward the middle.
07:19And here comes the manager, Schneider, out to the mound.
07:22The Giants with ten hits in the game now against Bassett.
07:25So a good outing for Bassett.
07:27He pitches into the seventh.
07:29But he'll have to leave with a one out and two men on here in the seventh.
07:32Brendan Little is into the game with the Blue Jays up 4-0.
07:35But the Giants have runners at first and second with a one out here in the top of the seventh.
07:39And a base hit could knock in a run.
07:41Get Ramos on deck.
07:42That time, it looked like he went, and yes, he did.
07:47Two down.
07:48When you almost get the swing on one of those pitches, you come right back with it.
07:51Good call by Kirk.
07:53Good execution by Little.
07:54Two outs in the inning.
07:56And Elliott Ramos up.
07:59Swung on and missed.
08:00He got it.
08:01Two big outs for Brendan Little here in the seventh inning.
08:04As the Giants lead two more men on.
08:07Jeff Hoffman coming in with a four-run lead.
08:10Bassett, six and a third.
08:11Brendan Little got two big strikeouts with two men on in the seventh.
08:14Yariel Rodriguez to score this eighth.
08:16And now Hoffman here in the ninth.
08:17Hoffman's 0-2.
08:19Swing and a miss.
08:20Strike three.
08:2197 just off the plate outside.
08:23Gets a whip from Schmidt.
08:25One out.
08:28Overpowered him with another 98-mile-an-hour fastball.
08:31He is absolutely blowing the fastball by these hitters at the bottom of the Giants lineup.
08:36And the Blue Jays an out away from winning the first game out of the break.
08:42That's your ball game.
08:44Jeff Hoffman comes on in the ninth and strikes out the side.
08:48Chris Bassett gets the win.
08:50Little, Rodriguez, and Hoffman do the rest.
08:52The Blue Jays string together some hits in the second inning.
08:56Go Perfito a big part of that.
08:57Wagner a big part of that.
08:58And they win 4-0 in the opening game of this series.