TORONTO -- It was almost exactly a year ago that
\n\nHoly Moly, Reid-Foley!
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 10, 2019
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“We sprinkled in some curveballs, used a lot of sliders, and we used heaters up in the zone as part of our game plan and what we wanted to do,” Jansen said. “We even used probably more changeups than we thought we would, to righties and lefties, and he battled. … The changeup was key tonight.”\n\nReid-Foley used that key to success against the Yankees more than in any game that preceded Friday’s win, entering the contest using the pitch an average of 7.3 percent of the time in his career. But it worked, and the mutual trust he and his catcher had in the changeup was the reason.\n\n“It comes and goes,” he said. “Some days you’re on, and some days you’re just trying to search for it. Today was a day that I had the majority of my stuff working, and Jano just ran with it. He knew I had the utmost confidence in throwing certain pitches in certain situations, and I always have the utmost confidence in \\[my catchers\\] back there.”\n\nJansen -- who’s been behind the dish for all but four of Reid-Foley’s 14 appearances in the Majors -- helped pad an early lead with a three-run home run in the fourth inning that provided all the cushion the Blue Jays would need. It was the 24-year-old catcher’s 10th long ball of the season.\n\n“\\[This win means\\] a lot,” Jansen said. “They’re the best team in the division, they’re a tremendous organization, they’re a good team. And coming off that \\[7-3\\] road trip and having the young core here, the young guys playing and beating the Yankees like that, it’s extra confidence that we can take. We know how to play. We’re with the best of them, so it’s big. It’s huge.”\n\nTwo years and one day before Reid-Foley and Jansen debuted, centre fielder
“Playing time has made a big difference,” Hernandez said. “As much as you can play in the big leagues, you get to know the league, obviously. That’s helping me a lot here, especially with the older guys who were here before, and now we have Freddy \\[Galvis\\] and \\[Justin Smoak\\] still with the team, so I try to take advantage of that and learn as much as I can from them. It’s helped me.”\n\nThe 26-year-old outfielder led off the bottom of the second with a solo bomb to centre, and launched his 17th of the season to the same part of the field in the eighth, a two-run shot. Ahead of the long balls off the bats of Jansen and Hernandez,