Buck Martinez: It’s not just September. It’s every time, every day. How often do we say, ‘wow that guy really hustled!’ Well, that shouldn’t be the exception, that should be the norm. Unfortunately, it’s not the norm nowadays.

Dan Shulman: They have phases, a week or 10 days where they don’t do it, but then it creeps back in, lapses of judgement, whatever you want to call it.

Buck Martinez: Teoscar’s ball [on Monday night] hit off the top of the fence and he thought it was a grand slam and, if they threw the ball to second, he’s out. In this game, Teoscar hustled up the line, Matt Chapman hustled up the line, they made it close, bang bang. But it’s not like they do it every single inning of every single game and that’s what you have to do if you want to be a champion.

Dan Shulman: They’re good enough to play with anybody but it’s really hard to play with the good teams in October if you’re giving teams an extra out or costing yourself an extra out.

Buck Martinez: This John Schneider’s 67th game as manager and these are the types of things he’s going to change the culture of. I believe that he’s the right guy to manage this team going forward. He understands that there’s a certain way to play championship baseball. He won in the minor leagues in three different leagues. He understands what it takes to win.

It’s harder than ever to win in the Major Leagues. You don’t see a lot of repeat winners now. Things are changing from year to year. So you’ll have to set a standard of ‘This is how the Blue Jays are going to play. We’re going to put our trademark on this game and we’re going to do it every single day.’

Until you get there, you’re going to ride rollercoasters. You’re going to have good days, you’re going to have bad days. But I think John Schneider is the guy to lead this team forward and I can tell you he’s steaming about the way this game has developed tonight.

You can’t just say ‘well, they’re young.’ No, they’re not young. They’re playing in their third and fourth years in the big leagues now. You have step up. If you want to be a champion, you have to play like a champion.