Bats go cold as Blue Jays slip in Wild Card chase
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TORONTO — Boos turned into silence as the home team’s struggles continued.
The Blue Jays couldn’t get much to bounce their way in Wednesday night’s 10-0 loss to the Rangers at Rogers Centre. Amid a three-game skid, Toronto is now one game out of an American League Wild Card spot.
Save for a pair of impressive defensive plays by Davis Schneider and Ernie Clement early on, the Blue Jays remained quiet on all sides, mustering just five hits (none of them for extra bases), while Yusei Kikuchi stumbled for six earned runs over five innings.
This comes one day after Toronto surrendered the AL Wild Card tiebreaker by officially losing the season series to Texas. The Blue Jays own the tiebreaker over the Astros, but they dropped their season set against the Mariners.