OAKLAND, CALIF. - Nothing can take the fire out of a red-hot ballclub like a four-day vacation.
The Blue Jays went into the all-star break with eight wins in their previous 10 games, the best record in the American League in that time frame, and have emerged from their holiday sloppy and unfocused, losing their first two games to the struggling Oakland Athletics.
On Friday night, they blew a 7-3 lead on the way to an 8-7 loss and on Saturday afternoon went down 5-4 in lifeless fashion.
In this one, the A’s jumped on knuckleballer R.