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Cam Schlittler wasn't thrilled after a tough 2-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.
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The New York Yankees' young right-handed pitcher went on a bit of a postgame rant about the style of hitters that the Blue Jays have.
Specifically, he used BABIP as a verb.
BABIP stands for batting average on balls in play. It's often used to cite how lucky or unlucky a hitter is -- if that number is particularly high, it often can mean they're doing a better job than most of hitting the ball to places that the defense isn't positioned.
Generally, BABIP doesn't correlate from year to year, but some hitters do have a knack for outperforming expectation in this stat.
The Blue Jays have a few of those guys, and so Schlittler was a bit annoyed after Wednesday's game.
"It's just unacceptable," Schlittler told reporters about how he allowed runs to score. "Just walked two guys - they're a team that's gonna BABIP the s--- out of you. Some unlucky stuff, but can't walk the bottom of the order."
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The Blue Jays scored both of their runs in the top of the seventh.
Ernie Clement led off the inning with an infield single to the left side. Jesus Sanchez followed with a walk.
The catcher Brandon Valenzuela tried to bunt, but he reached on an infield single, as well.
Schlittler then walked Andres Gimenez to bring in a run, and two batters later, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made it 2-0 on a sacrifice fly.
The Yanks could only get one run back later, and that was that.
Aside from the Vladdy sac fly, the Blue Jays didn't hit the ball out of the infield en route to two runs.
It's fair that Schlittler was frustrated with both himself and with circumstance.
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