The Blue Jays opened up their nine game home stand by getting thumped 8-0, The Blue Jays record now stands at 65-63, The Jays are nine games back of Baltimore in the AL East and are now four and a half games back of Seattle for the second wild card spot. Mark Buehrle goes to the mound for the Blue Jays tomorrow as they face Tampa’s Jeremy Hellickson.

The Good: Well, um, no one got hurt. Brett Cecil and Kyle Drabek each pitched a shutout inning, although Drabek did load the bases before striking out Evan Longoria. And, hey, at least the Jays pitching staff looks better than the Tigers right now, who had their starter only go an inning and a third and have burned through their pen tonight and they have a double-header tomorrow, so yeah there’s that.

The Bad: Marcus Stroman got roughed up for his second straight outing going five plus inning allowing six runs, five earned and allowed 10 hits. The offence tonight was MIA only getting two hits off of Tampa’s Drew Smyly. The Jays offence looked listless most of the night as they allowed Smyly to get into a comfortable rhythm and were never able to break him of it.

The Ugly: Colby Rasmus’ lackadaisical effort on Kevin Kiermaier’s single turned double in the fourth inning. Rasmus never even looked at the runner as he went to pick up the ball, although to be honest Reyes looked surprised when Rasmus realized that Kiermaier was going for second and threw the ball in rather quickly. All in all if the Jays want to be serious about making a run for a playoff spot in the final 34 games they need to look a whole helluva lot more focused than they did tonight.