The Blue Jays’ bats failed to show up for a fourth straight game and they fell 2-1 in Kansas City Saturday, on a night when a win would have clinched a playoff berth.

The loss combined with an easy New York Yankees win in Baltimore reduced the Jays’ lead in the American League East to two games with seven to play, keeping their magic number to clinch the division at five.

In their four losses following a six-game win streak, the Jays have managed just three runs on 15 hits, causing those fans who have not already dissolved into puddles of goo to reach for their panic buttons.

This feels familiar.

The Jays had a road trip in May that also started in Tampa, although that one continued through Texas, and going into the ninth inning of the sixth and final game of that trip they had

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