Seeing Red: Blue Jays sweep Cincinnati as Travis and Maile homer in 5-4 win
Toronto’s Devon Travis was determined to control the pace of his at-bat in a seventh-inning showdown with Wandy Peralta on Wednesday afternoon.
The Cincinnati reliever kept throwing to first base and Travis called timeout a few times to keep his routine intact while eventually working the count full. After a few foul balls, Travis drilled a tiebreaking two-run homer that helped Toronto to a 5-4 victory.
“It’s something I’ve learned from watching a lot of these guys hit,” Travis said. “Honestly I think that might have been my first time really ever taking to that. So that was pretty good.”
It’s all part of the maturation process for the young second baseman.