Arden Zwelling

I've got Ben Nicholson Smith's game column right here in my inbox.

Placeline St.

Petersburg, Florida.

And he quotes Max Scherzer within it.

Quote, it's not just going to happen.

We're not just going to go out there and go on a crazy winning streak.

We have to go make that happen.

The rest of the league doesn't just lose on purpose.

You've got to go do it.

beat them?

Do you feel like the Blue Jays are not doing enough to make wins happen and perhaps are just sitting back and expecting that at some point this season, much like last season, they will just come together and start winning?

Here's what I know.

The Blue Jays hit nine home runs on their seven game road trip, five of them.

off the bat of Kazuma Okamoto.

Good thing that guy was on the trip and performing.

And they also had a batting average under 250 and an OBP just north of 300.

So that means that they aren't slugging and they are hitting a bit, but not prolifically.

So either you got to be like a mixture of hit and slug, or you have to be a whole lot of hit or a whole lot of slug.

Like, that's how you're going to score runs and get above five, six runs a game and consistently win in this league.

And I think that right now the Blue Jays are not doing either consistently enough or in enough volume.