TORONTO -- Pat Murphy approached Erick Fedde with a question ahead of Friday’s game: How did he view the Brewers when he was in the opposing dugout?
“Just a bunch of pesky guys,” was the answer the skipper got. “You blink your eyes and they scored four runs.”
In a much-anticipated matchup between the two winningest teams in Major League Baseball, the Blue Jays blinked first, and the Brewers’ pesky guys took every inch they were given for a 7-2 win at Rogers Centre .
This one was built on patience. A formidable pitching matchup between Freddy Peralta and Shane Bieber kept the game scoreless all the way to the sixth, with both starters posting nearly identical lines before the Brewers found their edge. Then came that one big inning, featuring all the big and little things that helpe