Blue Jays Week In Review: The good, the bad and the noteworthy for April 28

It was a disappointing week for the Blue Jays.
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For the first time this season, the Toronto Blue Jays posted a losing record over a week's worth of action after they were swept by the Astros and lost two out of three to the Yankees.

The Blue Jays now sit at 13-15 on the year, marking the first time that they've been one game below .500 on the season. They've gone 3-7 over their last 10 games.

If there’s any consolation to looking at all the standings information this early, the Blue Jays have outperformed their expected record of 11-17, and that’s based on their minus-27 run differential.

They are the only team in the AL East who hasn’t scored at least 100 runs yet this season. Here’s a look at what they did good, bad, and noteworthy over the last seven days.

The good, the bad and the noteworthy for April 28

The Good: A late rally to avoid a winless week

The Blue Jays were one clutch Alejandro Kirk double on Friday night away from posting a winless week.

Kirk stepped into the batter's box against Devin Williams in the top of the ninth inning with the Blue Jays three outs away from losing their sixth straight game.

The Toronto catcher came up with two men on base in the top of the ninth at Yankee Stadium and proceeded to smash a ball to deep centerfield that scored George Springer and Andrés Giménez.

The Blue Jays began the inning down 2-1 with Williams on the mound, and the Jays had just a 16% chance to win. However, Williams (who entered the game with a 7.88 ERA in eight innings), struggled right out of the gate by giving up a leadoff single to Springer, before hitting Giménez with a 2-2 pitch.

That set the table for Kirk's double, which increased the Blue Jays' Win Probability to 89%. Jeff Hoffman made it 100% by closing the door in the bottom of the ninth.

It was Kirk's first extra-base hit since he had a double and a home run in a 7-6 win over Baltimore on April 13. It also marked just the second time in the Blue Jays' last eight games that they scored more than three runs in a single contest.

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