Estrada: Extra rest not source of struggles

TORONTO — The Blue Jays’ decision to go with a six-man rotation appears to have impacted at least one of its starters as Marco Estrada has yet to figure things out since the change was made earlier this month.

Estrada struggled again Wednesday night by allowing a season-high six runs in an 8-2 loss to the Angels. The veteran righty has now allowed 11 runs over his last two starts and hasn’t tossed more than five innings since Aug. 3, which was before Toronto officially added an extra starter to the roster.

The sample size is small, and there’s no way of knowing for sure that Estrada’s recent woes are directly connected to a change in his routine, but the numbers with extra rest are telling. Even so, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons went out of his way to say that no one really knows what impact the six-man rotation has and, because of that, people should stop talking about it.

“Who the [heck] knows?” Gibbons said. “I don’t know, you don’t know. I mean we’ve got to move on from that because everybody has been good. It’s getting a little tiring. There has got to be more to the game than that.

“I mean, who knows? But I don’t know, you don’t know and I’m sure he …

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