Blue Jays striking out in record-breaking fashion

The Toronto Blue Jays are pot committed on a rebuild, however, they are striking out in record-breaking fashion after the first 11 contests of the season.

The Blue Jays hitters struck out another 16 times yesterday as they once again look overmatched by an Indians hurler. According to Gregor Chisholm of MLB.com, this is the first time in franchise history the Jays have whiffed at least 13 times in four consecutive games. To make matters worse, it has only ever been done four times in MLB history.

The Indians swept the four-game series limiting the Jays anemic offence to just six runs over the course of the series. The Jays tallied 57 strikeouts in the series, the second most in franchise history while only mounting 19 hits versus the Tribe.

We all knew there would be some painful stretches as the kids ironed out the growing pains but this is ridiculous. The fashion in which the Blue Jays are repeatedly losing games is nearly unbearable to witness with no end in sight. The Jays lead the majors with 111 punchouts in their first 11 games.

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Brandon Drury leads the American League with 17 strikeouts and is tied with Brandon Nimmo of the New York Mets for the league lead. Randal Grichuk also finds himself in fourth place on the list with 14 whiffs of his own as well.

Skipper Charlie Montoyo acknowledged the offence has been really bad following their eighth loss of the season.

“Our approach has not been really good. I’m not going to sugar coat, it’s been really bad. But I promise you one thing, we’re friggin’ going to work on it.”

The 3-8 Blue Jays actually have deserved better as their starting pitching has been better than advertised. Unfortunately, the run support is not being reciprocated by the position players, case in point is Marcus Stroman who in 20 innings on the bump has not received a single run of support in any his outings.

The silver lining and glass-half-full outlook in all this are at least the Jays can’t get any worse, or can they?