The Blue Jays are in the middle of an intense post-season race — a last-place-team turned first-place-team, hanging on to their hopes of skipping past the first round by only a thread.

The New York Yankees are one game back. The Blue Jays have the tiebreaker. There are five games left.

If the Blue Jays finish above or tied with the Yankees, they will win the AL East. If the Yankees pass the Jays, Toronto will be thrown into the chaos of the three-game wild-card series that has doomed them three times in the past five seasons . The team needs all the help it can get.

But that help has not come from the umpires, who, in the eyes of many fans, have fumbled at least three key calls recently. For a team that has lost five of its past six games, that has not been appreciated.

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