Improvements at the Rogers Centre have made Toronto’s concrete baseball tomb less like an Albanian pillbox and more like Cleveland
As he ran out onto the Rogers Centre turf for the first time this season on Tuesday afternoon, George Springer stopped and pointed to foul territory alongside third base.Don’t get too excited. It’s just a pregame TV set, and it’s not permanent. Presumably because Rogers couldn’t figure a way to brand and sell a new murderball feature on the sidelines: ‘Maybe you’ll get some in-game analysis, and maybe someone’s going to the infirmary. Stay tuned on Sportsnet.
My favourite new addition is the Tap and Go – an automated liquor emporium in right field. You tap your credit card to enter a horseshoe-shaped bank of fridges, pick up booze and head back out onto the concourse. You can be swilling within seconds. If $70 sounds a lot like to you, you also get a clear, plastic carafe which is not suitable for collecting. Nobody wants you chucking a wine bottle into the opposing bullpen. That’s different, too, and now so close to the fans spilling out of the Tap and Go that an eventual drunken outrage feels inevitable.
While Jays starter Alek Manoah fiddled with his cap, you found yourself doing the old, ‘C’mon, c’mooooon, hurry.’ This feeling will wear off, but for now it has the effect of imbuing early-season baseball with late-season urgency.Two representative moments for the Jays’ 2023 season happened in quick succession shortly after the start.
It was a rough night for the Jays’ most-talked-about starter, though it could have been much rougher. Had Rogers not downsized that wall and Kiermaier not made that catch, Manoah might not have gotten out of the second inning.
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