The Toronto Blue Jays, fighting to stay together and in the playoff race ahead of the trade deadline, suffered another feeble loss on Friday night.
The 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians took the Jays to 33-36 on the year. With several veteran players and expensive contracts, the Jays have been rumored as possible sellers at the deadline, but the recent stretch of good play has changed that narrative a bit.
Given the financial investment (George Springer and Kevin Kiermaier) and the player development investment (Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette) in offense, it’s shocking to see the Jays struggling so much offensively. They had only three hits in Friday’s loss against Cleveland, who is now 44-23 and out front in the American League Central.
The Blue Jays and Guardians will play again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch coming at 3:07 p.m. ET. Veteran Carlos Carrasco is going to pitch for Cleveland. He’s 2-5 with a 5.50 ERA.
The Blue Jays have not announced a starter as of this posting.
At 33-36, Toronto is in fourth place in the American League East. They are already 15.5 games behind the Yankees and they are 4.5 games back of the third and final wild card spot.
