Colome (0-2) was charged with his second blown save of the season in Sunday's 3-1 loss to the Blue Jays, giving up two earned runs on three hits and a walk over a third of an inning.
The star closer suffered a rare stumble against a Blue Jays squad that's considerably underperformed this season, giving up an RBI double to Jose Bautista as well as run-scoring singles to Russell Martin and Ezequiel Carrera during some rare eighth-inning work. It was the third time in eight days that Colome has been called upon before the ninth, including his last two appearances. The 28-year-old right-hander has yielded four earned runs on five hits and three walks over these two most recent outings, but both pitching coach Jim Hickey and manager Kevin Cash dismissed the notion that Colome can't succeed consistently in those situations over a larger sample, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. "This has happened before, where the guy who traditionally gets three outs and you ask him to get more than that has a little bit of a struggle doing it," Hickey said. "But he's done it successfully before."