The Blue Jays left the doors sitting wide open for the Red Sox on Saturday night at Fenway Park, both as a lineup and a defense, but their bullpen had other ideas.\n\nLed by
The Blue Jays don’t need complete game shutouts every night, but they do need some consistency. Not only will that make things easier on skipper Charlie Montoyo and his bullpen management, but if the rotation keeps games close, the lineup will have to wake up eventually, like it did in the late innings on Saturday.\n\nAfter
“We’re pretty much competing against each other to see who can have the better outings,” Kay said. “It’s really fun to have all of these guys coming out here throwing hard. You’ve got Hatch and Romano doing really well, and pretty much everyone’s doing their job. It’s fun to go out there and pick each other up.”\n\nFrom Montoyo’s seat in the dugout, there are plenty of reasons to nitpick Saturday’s win, but the bullpen effort isn’t one. Kay’s effort, in particular, had Montoyo heaping praise following the game.\n\n“Today was amazing,” Montoyo said. “You have to stay even keel to do what he did today. The misplays behind him, and he kept making big pitch after big pitch. I was really impressed.”
The Blue Jays needed tonight’s win, too, as their lineup struggled to string together hits and continued to create unnecessary outs on the bases, which plagued them in Friday’s opener. Toronto finally tied things up in the seventh with a loud RBI double from