The Toronto Blue Jays welcomed some new faces to the team and brought back some old ones with Daulton Varsho coming off the IL, but in the last seven days everybody in Blue Jays land was humbled by two teams they should have easily handled. Toronto went 2-5 dropping back-to-back series for the first time since May. However, thanks to a dominant stretch where they went 22-7 since June 24, they afforded themselves a week where they could underperform and still have a cushion in the race for the AL East crown.
Toronto (65-48) are still three games up in that division race, but now have the Red Sox on their tail instead of the Yankees - as Boston has gone 34-19 since the beginning of June to overtake New York who went 25-30 over the same stretch.