By Stephen Johns

Losing streaks happen in baseball. As fans, we tend to overreact when they do—but the reality is, during the course of a 162-game schedule, there’ll be times when our team falls into a slump. That’s what’s happening to the Toronto Blue Jays right now: after sweeping the Chicago White Sox out of Toronto, they went to Boston and were promptly swept by the Red Sox. Yesterday, despite yet another pitching gem from Roy Halladay, they lost 1-0 to the Atlanta Braves; it was the first time all year the Blue Jays had been shut out. Should we read too much into this four-game losing streak? In a word, no. The Jays are still leading the American League East, and outsiders are starting to clue in that the team might just be for real. Today, meanwhile, they welcome Casey Janssen back to the mound for the first time in over a year. There’s a long way to go, still a lot of baseball yet to be played, but that’s just another reason to put the team’s current skid into context.