The Toronto Blue Jays arent quite ready to concede. The hosts can complete a sweep of the visiting Chicago Cubs and remain on the fringes for the second American League wild card playoff berth with a victory on Wednesday night in the finale of a three-game series at Rogers Centre. Torontos Tuesday night win over the Cubs was its second straight in the series, third in a row overall and eighth in 10 games. The Blue Jays are 4 1/2 games behind the Detroit Tigers, who currently hold the second of two wild card positions. The Blue Jays have won four straight at home and have been boosted over recent weeks by the hot bat of Jose Bautista, who stretched his personal hit streak to 13 games on Tuesday. He has a .333 average, eight home runs and 19 runs batted in during the stretch. "Jose has been one of the best hitters in baseball over the last few years," manager John Gibbons said. "Hes got the knack of doing something big when it counts, when we need something." Toronto has outscored the Cubs, 17-2, in the first two games of the series, but will encounter rookie right-hander Kyle Hendricks, whos in the midst of his own streak. The Cubs have won Hendricks last seven starts and nine of 10 overall. He was dinged for four runs in Chicagos 6-4 loss to Cincinnati in his big-league debut on July 10, but hes surrendered only 10 earned runs in 56 1/3 innings since. Kendricks previous outing came last Wednesday and he yielded two runs and nine hits in a 6-2 defeat of Milwaukee. Meanwhile, the Cubs are batting just .218 while dropping five straight games. They face Torontos own hot pitcher, Drew Hutchison. Hutchison has given up just two runs in his last 21 2/3 innings over three home starts. In his last home outing, on Aug. 30, he tossed seven scoreless innings of one-hit ball in a 2-0 defeat of the New York Yankees. He last pitched on Friday against Boston and allowed three runs in six innings of a game the Blue Jays ultimately lost, 9-8, in 10 innings. Hutchison has never faced the Cubs. On Tuesday, Bautistas three-run double in the seventh inning led the Blue Jays to a 9-2 victory. Bautista finished with four RBI, Munenori Kawasaki and Jose Reyes each brought in two runs and Kevin Pillar and Edwin Encarnacion supplied three hits apiece for the Blue Jays. Mark Buehrle (12-9) gave up 10 hits and two runs with three strikeouts over seven innings for the win. Javier Baez had two hits and two runs scored, while Welington Castillo supplied three hits and an RBI for Chicago. Neil Ramirez (2-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up two runs in the seventh. Starter Jake Arrieta allowed two runs on seven hits with five strikeouts across 6 1/3 frames. The Jays and Cubs are meeting for the first time since 2008, when Chicago took two of three games north of the border. Yandy Diaz Jersey . 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Second-seeded Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania advanced easily by beating Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine 6-3, 6-1, while No.With Saturday nights loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Winnipeg Jets have now dropped five straight, the teams longest stretch this season without a win. The Jets had a good first period taking a 1-0 lead to the dressing room with Eric ODell scoring his first NHL goal. A Keaton Ellerby shot from the point came off the back boards into the crease area where goaltender Curtis McElhinny had trouble controlling it, allowing ODell to jam it home. Adam Pardy also picked up an assist. The Jets had a goal disallowed as it was deflected in with a stick above the cross bar, and also had Bryan Little hit the cross bar on a clean chance. The shots through one were 7-6 Jets. The second period started with Brandon Dubinsky taking a holding penalty behind the Jets net, sending the Jets to their third power play of the night, and that is where it all started to go south for the Jets. A shorthanded goal by Mark Letestu tied the game, it was the sixth power play goal against the Jets have allowed this season. The goal came 36 seconds into the period, nine seconds after the penalty. At 4:15 Cam Atkinson made it 2-1, 8:26 Nick Foligno made it 3-1, and at 9:07 Boone Jenner scored on a penalty shot to make it 4-1, beating Ondrej Pavelec low blocker. Toby Enstrom at 11:55 with his fifth of the year made it 4-2, the assist to Little. Shots in the second were an even 12-12. The Jets started the third with urgency and created a number of chances but Jenners second of the night from right in front made it 5-2. 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"Even at 1-1 we had opportunities but missed some great chances. That would have really helped us, but the game certainly unraveled in the second period on mistakes that were stuff that Ive never seen before. Some of the stuff we saw was a little wild, some of the breakdowns weve never done this stuff all year." The game ended a stretch of six straight against Eastern Conference teams. It was the Blue Jackets first regular season game in Winnipeg, leaving Vancouver as the last NHL team yet to play at MTS Centre. The Phoenix Coyotes will be the visitors Monday as the Jets end a three game home stand (TSN Jets, TSN 1290). ' ' '