Chris Cotillo

That was some pretty ugly baseball yesterday down at the Rogers Center.

The Blue Jays lose 3-1 to the Houston Astros to lose a series that they probably feel like they could have swept.

Now, coulda, shoulda, woulda.

You can nitpick probably most games and say, coulda won this one here, coulda won this one there.

But coming off of a Tuesday game where they lost at 11 innings and had a million chances to put an extra run across...

and take care of that game, including in the bottom of the 10th with a runner on third and only one out.

You're probably kicking yourself for that one.

And then last night, no, the bats didn't get going.

And that is a consistent story still.

It was actually not a runners in scoring position issue last night because you just didn't get any runners in scoring position.

0 for 2 with four men left on base.

I had...

Half joked that Mike Burrows, who entered play with the worst ERA among all qualified pitchers, would throw five shutout.

He went six with one earned run instead.

So that's the, you know, bigger picture issue.

But what you are probably looking at from last night's game is a number of little mistakes.

Luis Urias gets doubled off on a play that there's no business getting doubled off on when George Springer lines one into deep right field.

There is Jeff Hoffman throwing the ball away, trying to pick off Joey Loprafito at third base on a set play that he and Cosimo Okamoto miscommunicated on.

Okamoto thought it was a back pick coming from the catcher.

It's a play where you're trying to keep the runner in check and maybe catch him because of the contact play could be on.