The Blue Jays will wake up Thursday morning knowing they still find themselves atop the AL East, courtesy of the tiebreaker advantage over the New York Yankees.

That’s the optimistic approach the club must embrace.

The reality speaks to a team that has found the absolute wrong time for its offence to disappear, while its pitching has been exposed.

“It’s been a rough week for us, but there’s a game (Thursday night) and we have to figure out ways to score,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Wednesday following his team’s 7-1 loss to the visiting Boston Red Sox, who also took Tuesday’s series opener 4-1.

Rough only scratches the surface of a stretch that has seen the Jays’ bats go completely cold.

Toronto is 1-6 in its past seven games. Outside of an 8-5 win on Sunday in Kansas City,

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