Mike Wilner: Blue Jays takeaways: Alejandro Kirk does the not-so-little things right in win over Orioles
The young catcher is in the majors because of his bat, but he’s showing there’s more to his game.
The young backstop made up for that in the sixth inning when he picked Austin Wynns off first base. In the seventh, Kirk wisely stepped in front of the plate and grabbed Bo Bichette’s relay throw, which had no chance of getting Ryan Mountcastle with the tying run, and threw a laser to third to erase Trey Mancini, who was trying to advance on the throw.
At the plate, Kirk walked and singled, but his biggest contribution came in the bottom of the eighth, when he came up with runners and first and second and nobody out in a tie game. Kirk jumped all over Dillon Tate’s first pitch, driving it to the wall in dead centre where it was run down by Cedric Mullins. The deep fly ball allowed both runners to tag up, though, and set the stage for the game winning sacrifice fly that followed.
This guy continues to deliver. I hope they trade Janssen.
According to Phil, if they'd punished him the other week, maybe he'd have picked off 4 runners instead of just 2 and had 2 doubles and 2 walks as well as set up 2 game winning RBI's in one night. As well, they would have written 2 articles about him. That's the way punishment works.
Actually, if he'd been punished, as "Phill-of-shit" wanted, he probably wouldn't have even had a chance to do anything positive. Kirk would have been benched or batted 9th. He proves once again that being stubborn does not make one right. Can't wait for his reply..."Kirk should have been punished for 10-20 games for not running out that grounder." Or some variation, thereof.
Montoyo's faith in Kirk has paid off. He may have been our most consistent player since that "incident(?)".
