The Rangers dominated the Blue Jays in every component during their four-game sweep. As TSN Baseball Insider Steve Phillips writes, the only way for the Jays to save their season is to narrow their focus and concentrate on what they can control over the remaining 15 games.
Well, that didn’t go quite as the Blue Jays had hoped. We all called it the biggest series of the season, but someone forgot to tell the players.
If the season were to end today, the Jays would miss the playoffs. But the season doesn’t end today. Sure, the Jays are a game-and-a-half behind the Mariners for the third wild-card spot and are now two-and-a-half games behind Texas, but there are 15 games remaining on the schedule. But the Jays can’t worry about any of that. The team needs to narrow its focus. That doesn’t mean focusing on winning one game at a time, either. It means focusing on winning this pitch, in this inning, in this game. Then win the next pitch. Then the next.
The way out of this team-wide offensive funk is to take more pitches. The way to hit better is to show more patience. Fortunes can turn on a dime in baseball. The Rangers were in a complete freefall. They had been in first place for 148 of the first 149 days of the season before their collapse. The Rangers have put things back together and so can the Blue Jays. Toronto is just a game-and-a-half out of a playoff spot with 15 games to go. There are at least 14 other teams in baseball that would swap their current situation with Toronto. The Jays have five series remaining, all against familiar AL East rivals.
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