The Toronto Blue Jays are rolling right now, as they hold the best record in the American League and have opened up a four-game lead over the Boston Red Sox. They are one of the hottest teams offensively in baseball, and look like a bona fide playoff team that could make a deep run in October.
Toronto is fresh off a series where they swept the Colorado Rockies and accomplished a feat that hasn’t happened since 1900. It’s no mystery that the Rockies are the worst team in baseball, but the Blue Jays just completely flexed their muscles in a three-game set.
Toronto Makes MLB History
In the three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies, the Toronto Blue Jays routed Colorado in all three games and ended up outscoring them by a score of 45-6. In Coors Field, where everyone can score, it is wildly impressive that the Jays’ pitching staff only limited the Rockies to two runs per game. Toronto collected an unfathomable 63 hits in the series, which, according to ESPN records, had not happened since 1900.
The first game saw Toronto come out on top by a score of 15-1, followed by a 10-4 victory on Tuesday, and the exclamation point was a 20-1 drubbing where the Blue Jays scored 20 unanswered runs.
The best teams in baseball are always able to “take care of business” and beat the teams they are supposed to, and the Jays did just that. Bo Bichette picked up seven hits in the series and 10 RBIs, and had a multi-hit game in all three of the games. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added eight hits in the series, and seven over the last two games. Four of those eight hits went for extra bases.
The Contributions From Some Other Players
It wasn’t just Bichette and Guerrero Jr. that loaded up the score sheets; Daulton Varsho also got involved in a big way.
Bleacher Report ran a story on the Toronto Blue Jays’ impressive series and broke down some of the history involved:
“The 45 runs scored in the series represented a franchise record for the Blue Jays in a three-game set, and Toronto also became the first team to have two players with 10 or more RBI in a series of three or fewer games since 2000. Bo Bichette and Daulton Varsho accomplished the feat for the Jays, 25 years after Alex Rodriguez and Edgar Martinez of the Seattle Mariners last did it, coincidentally against the Blue Jays.”
For the Colorado Rockies, this is a series they want to put behind them, but this is what happens when a red-hot offense takes its momentum into Coors Field. The Rockies now have a -300 run differential, and the 114 games it took them to reach that disastrous number is also an MLB record.
A team like the Blue Jays can be a strong favorite to win the World Series if their offense is clicking like they are now. Albeit against the worst team in baseball, if Guerrero Jr. and Bichette continue hitting the way they are, and other contributors like Varsho, Addison Barger, and Davis Schneider stay hot, this is a scary opponent.
Blue Jays Accomplish Impressive Feat That Hasn’t Happened in 120 Years