Blue Jays beat themselves and go meekly into off\u002Dseason after being swept by Twins

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The body bags were strewn about Target Field on Wednesday afternoon and evening, with plenty of Blue Jays candidates to fill them after Canada’s team was meekly swept from Major League Baseball’s postseason yet again.

When left-handed starter turned reliever for part of a day, Yusei Kikuchi, couldn’t get out of that fourth inning before allowing a pair of Twins runs to score, a second consecutive sweep exit from the AL wildcard round was expedited for the Jays. The botched pitching change in a tight ball game looms as a flash point for the latest debacle of the regime overseen by team president Shapiro and his GM Atkins, of course, but the failures were deep and plenty and on full display on Wednesday.

That type of output has been symptomatic of the Jays 89-win regular season, of course, a dry attack that carried into Monday’s opener of the best-of-three series, a 3-1 loss.

 

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