Blue Jays' Chris Bassitt tipping pitches in second shortest outing of career.

However a 35-pitch first inning in which the Red Sox jumped out to a 3-0 lead, and all nine hitters made a plate appearance, set a miserable tone for a confident Jays team that allowed the plummeting Sox to snap their six-game losing streak.

When speaking to the media after the game Bassitt seemed to think that maybe he was tipping his pitches, but didn't lay the blame on anyone but himself.

Chris Bassitt felt he didn't make many mistakes, but he still got hit. Post-game, he wasn't sure why yet:

How bad was the second-shortest start of Bassitt's career?

Well, 13 of the 19 batters he faced reached base and it was just the third time in his career that he's allowed eight earned runs or more, this after tossing at least six innings in each of his previous four starts.

All six of the Red Sox runs that were scored while Bassitt was still on the mound came with two outs as the usually crafty hurler showed a complete lack of finish.

The eight runs Bassitt was on the hook for by the time of his premature exit, with none out and the bases loaded in the third, came as he allowed eight hits, four walks and one plunked batter.

Bassitt's ERA ballooned from 3.61 to 4.29 as he recorded just six outs from the 70 pitches he threw, only 44 of them for strikes.

The early ineptitude made the middle match of the three-game weekend series a dud from the outset.

By the time the Red Sox had stopped thumping, they were up by two touchdowns surpassed the 13 the Jays surrendered in that ugly shutout loss to the Rays in Tampa on May 25.

As well, the previous time they've allowed more than 15 runs in a game was a year ago when they were shellacked in a 16-8 loss to the New York Yankees at the Rogers Centre that launched the second half of the miserable last-place 2024 season.

It seems that Bassitt doesn't want to believe he was tipping his pitches, but with the amount of different pitches he throws at any given time he is hardly predictable, I cant see how he wasn't tipping his pitches.

He may have a lot of respect for Alex Cora and how he does things but that's not to say what any manager would do to win in a playoff race where the Red Sox are only 2.5 games behind the Blue Jays.

Every game counts right now especially coming off a 6 game losing streak and getting embarrassed at home 9-0 the night before.

The Jays, who are 3-2 thus far on the six-game road trip and 44-38 overall, will attempt to claim the rubber match on Sunday when lefty Eric Lauer, one of the biggest success stories of the Jays this season, is scheduled to face Boston righty Walker Buehler.