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- Updated: May 17, 2016
TORONTO — If there’s been one consistent component of the Blue Jays’ opening quarter of the season, it’s been the performance of the team’s starting pitching.
Left-hander J.A. Happ has been a major part of Toronto’s impressive staff — Happ entered the night third behind Jake Arrieta and Clayton Kershaw since Aug. 14, 2015, with a 1.68 ERA — but he was not his usual self in Monday’s 13-2 thumping at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Happ went a season-low two-plus innings and allowed a season-high eight earned runs and two home runs, his worst outing since allowing seven runs on July 30, 2015, against the Twins.
Signed by the Blue Jays in the offseason to a cost-effective, three-year, $36-million dollar deal after a second half surge with the Pirates, Happ blamed the outing on his inability to locate his trusted two-seam fastball.
“It was cutting on me a little bit instead of sinking or fading, and then I probably tried to feel for it a little bit,” Happ said after the …
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