One of the Blue Jays' worst skids of the season has come at a most inopportune time.

A 7-1 loss to Boston on Wednesday night, coupled with the Yankees' 8-1 win over the Chicago White Sox, left Toronto and New York tied for first place in the American League East Division standings.

The Blue Jays have dropped six of their last seven games. A five-game lead has vanished in just over a week.

Toronto (90-68) has a tiebreaker advantage over New York and still controls its own destiny with a magic number of four with four games left to play.

A direct berth to the division series hangs in the balance with the second-place finisher forced into a wild-card series.

"It feels like the sky is falling right now and it's not," said Blue Jays manager John Schneider, throwing in an F-bomb for good me

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