Davidi on Blue Jays: Janssen embracing new role
OAKLAND – So, the three-up, three-down save really does exist.
The Toronto Blue Jays and their fans can certainly be forgiven for thinking a clean ninth in a tight ballgame was some type of popular fallacy, having not seen one that went their way since last Sept. 14, when Frank Francisco closed out the Boston Red Sox without incident.
Since then, nursing leads of three runs or less through the ninth has been a near-constant misadventure of varying degrees, until Casey Janssen,
The Toronto Blue Jays and their fans can certainly be forgiven for thinking a clean ninth in a tight ballgame was some type of popular fallacy, having not seen one that went their way since last Sept. 14, when Frank Francisco closed out the Boston Red Sox without incident.
Since then, nursing leads of three runs or less through the ninth has been a near-constant misadventure of varying degrees, until Casey Janssen,
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