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Blue Jays look for offense to be driving force
- Updated: October 18, 2016
TORONTO — It may sound like a broken record at this point, but if the Blue Jays have any chance of getting back into the American League Championship Series, the offense is going to have to start carrying its own weight. That includes the dangerous heart of the order, of course, but also the bottom of the lineup.
There was a glimmer of hope for that in a 4-2 loss in Game 3, when the bottom of the order provided a spark. Michael Saunders ended Toronto’s homerless drought with a solo shot to left field. Ezequiel Carrera provided another when he tripled to the gap in right-center field and later scored. In the end, it still wasn’t enough as Toronto lost its 13th consecutive postseason game when scoring fewer than five runs. But it was something.
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Toronto has managed to score just three runs in this ALCS, which is the Blue Jays’ lowest output over any three-game stretch of the 2016 season. The timing could not be any worse and it will have to change immediately to give this team renewed life.
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“Obviously, we’re not scoring as many runs as we’d like right now, and our starting pitching has done a great job for us all …
