TAMPA – The Toronto Blue Jays are operating on a few different planes as they close in on a post-season berth, an American League East title and a wild-card-round bye, which means at first glance, some of their decisions might look a little funky.

Take the way they closed out Tuesday night’s 6-5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, for example, when Seranthony Dominguez recorded two outs in the eighth plus another in the ninth before Jeff Hoffman came in to finish things off. Why not simply let Dominguez finish things off if he’s already out there? And why disrupt Hoffman’s usual usage as closer?

“Hoff was coming in at (Brandon) Lowe anyway, even if there were two outs, nobody on – we were trying to just squeeze together the number of pitches,” manager John Schneider explained. “It was kind of r

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