Blue Jays stifle vaunted Red Sox offence, clinch home-field in AL wild-card game In a 162-game season that encompassed 1,459 innings, the Blue Jays’ playoff fate was decided a thousand miles away in Atlanta. A few minutes later, the Blue Jays held off the Red Sox for a 2-1 win to claim home-field advantage for that Tuesday night game against the Orioles. Where last year at this time Toronto was blitzing American League pitching with their deadly combination of power and patience, the Blue Jays have this time around — this month at least — become a team of scufflers. It was absolutely strange, which, as the Blue Jays eked out a 2-1 win in Boston to clinch their second straight playoff appearance after a two-decade absence, was absolutely fitting. The combination of Sanchez, Happ and Estrada helped the Toronto rotation have the lowest ERA in the American League.

Source: National Post October 02, 2016 23:48 UTC