Doug Fox

Well, it turns out that best team in baseball and best bullpen in baseball mean you're going to have to play some pretty good baseball to come up with a win.

The Toronto Blue Jays did not do that yesterday.

They fall four to three to the Atlanta Braves in the first of three.

The Braves are able to get to Kevin Gosman a little bit early.

Gosman kind of finds it from there, especially with his fastball, but ends up getting hung with four earned.

Over six.

On the other side, the Jays couldn't quite get to Bryce Elder, who I still am not a thousand percent sure how he's doing this.

Did a Blue Jays central thing on his new cutter and how that's helped him against lefties.

And sure, but it still doesn't look like it should be at 263 ERA.

The Blue Jays continue.

their trend of being able to hit the high stuff guys, but having trouble with more of these kind of kitchen sink, pitch ability, mix and match kind of guys.

That's something for them to figure out as this season goes, because they need the offense to turn around in a hurry here.

They did manage nine hits yesterday, but situational hitting is,

continued to be a bit of an issue.

They went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position.

They are now down to 28th in the league in weighted runs created plus with runners in scoring position.

So that's a lot of words, but runners in scoring position, weighted runs created plus takes everything into account.

The extra bases, the walks.

adjust for park factors and things like that.

So the Jays are, when we adjust for all these things, a bottom three team right now hitting with runners in scoring position, their bottom five and things like slug with runners in scoring position.