After turning on the whole country last summer and fall with a marvellous run to the playoffs, Canada’s only Major League Baseball entry appears headed in another direction right now.
The Toronto Blue Jays are in just a tad of trouble. Maybe more. We’ll find out soon enough. Right now things are not so great.
On Tuesday the Jays began a crucial run of 12 games against their top AL East division rivals, Boston and New York.
Play well, everybody says, they climb right back in the race.
Play badly and it could be a long and dreadful season.
The Jays managed two hits in a 6-0 loss at Yankee Stadium. So much for momentum.
The loss left the Jays in fifth place in the five-team AL East with a 22-25 record, eight games behind first-place Boston.
With slightly more than a quarter of the season completed, choices abound about adjectives to describe this team.
A good start: “lacklustre” would fit.
Can it get better? Maybe.
Can it get worse? Maybe.
For some perspective RCI spoke with the Toronto Star’s Richard Griffin, considered by many to be Canada’s foremost baseball columnist.
Griffin spoke by phone from his hotel room in New York.
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