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- Updated: May 19, 2016
TORONTO — The Blue Jays have been searching for answers all season, but they have yet to find any solutions. If that doesn’t change soon, the top of the division could drift out of sight.
With Wednesday’s 6-3 loss to the Rays, Toronto’s season-high fifth straight defeat, the 19-23 Blue Jays dropped to seven games back of American League East-leading Baltimore.
The Blue Jays — who were outscored, 31-7, in their three-game series against the Rays — have been in this position before and bounced back, so all hope is not lost. There is time to make a run, and the players in Toronto’s clubhouse insist that is going to happen. They just don’t know when.
“We have to play better baseball, that’s the bottom line,” said acting manager DeMarlo Hale, who is in charge until John Gibbons returns from a three-game suspension.
“This is a good club in here — accomplished hitters who have done things in this game. There is a trust factor that you definitely have. … It will change.”
Toronto has been down this road before. In 2013, the Blue Jays entered the season as the talk of baseball but struggled out of the gate. By Game No. 42, they were eight games below .500 at 17-25.
That team …
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