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- Updated: August 8, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Despite possessing one of the top offenses in the Majors this season, ranking just outside the top five in overall runs scored and per game, the Blue Jays have found themselves in the midst of a slump.
On Sunday, those struggles continued, as they stranded eight runners and did not score more than four runs for the eighth straight game in a 7-1 loss to the Royals to cap a frustrating road trip. Toronto also fell one game back of Baltimore atop the American League East standings.
“We really haven’t been swinging [the bats well] since the beginning of the last homestand,” manager John Gibbons said. “We’re due to explode.”
As Sunday’s rubber game went on, the frustrations seemed to mount. Blue Jays hitters had a series of lineouts in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings that just seemed to find the gloves of the Royals outfielders.
Josh Thole, who filled in …
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