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TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays are running out of time to solve their startling power outage in the AL Championship Series.Things were supposed to be different when Toronto returned home to hitter-friendly Rogers Centre for Game 3 on Monday night. Instead, it was more of the same for the run-starved Blue Jays, who scratched out two runs and six hits against seven Cleveland Indians pitchers in a 4-2 loss that put Toronto in a 3-0 series hole.Game 4 is Tuesday afternoon, and the test only gets tougher with Cy Young Award candidate Corey Kluber scheduled to start for Cleveland.Weve got our work cut out for us, Toronto manager John Gibbons said. Thats an understatement.The Blue Jays scored 759 runs in the regular season, fifth most in the AL. After beating Baltimore in the wild-card game, Toronto pounded out 22 runs and hit eight homers in a three-game sweep of Texas in the Division Series.Those booming bats have gone ice cold since. Michael Saunders ended the teams 28-inning homerless streak with a leadoff shot in the second inning, but Toronto has produced just three runs in three ALCS losses to Cleveland. The Blue Jays have 17 hits in the series, 13 of them singles.I still believe our offense is due to erupt, Gibbons said. It hasnt happened yet. But Ive seen it too many times. Hopefully tomorrow is that day, well see.A desperate Gibbons shuffled his lineup for Game 3, moving slugger Jose Bautista into the leadoff spot and dropping Ezequiel Carrera to eighth. Bautista went 1 for 3 with a walk and a single, and Carrera had two hits.Saunders homer came off Dan Otero, Torontos first of the ALCS. Carrera tripled and scored in the fifth, giving the Blue Jays multiple extra-base hits in a game for the first time this series.Still, it wasnt enough to keep the Blue Jays from another offensive dud.Toronto struck out 25 times over the first two games of the series and punched out nine times in Game 3. 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This was no night to go to sleep.Wayne Bennett will turn struggling England into a side capable of winning the Four Nations virtually overnight, Cooper Cronk and Matt Gillett have warned their Kangaroos teammates.Bennett will take the reins of England for the first time in the October 29 clash against New Zealand at Huddersfield and the supercoach will have plenty of motivation after he was overlooked for the Australian coaching gig for Mal Meninga.Seven-times premiership winning coach Bennett will have another match against Scotland in Coventry a week later to fine tune his side before taking on Australia as a head coach for the first time at Londons Olympic Stadium on November 13.England have never won the Four Nations tournament, nor its predecessor the Tri Nations. But at home under Bennett, 2016 shapes as arguably their best chance.The one thing that Wayne Bennett does with all the football teams that he coaches is that he makes you play for your teammates, Cronk told AAP.He makes you work hard and not let your teammates down.When you have that type of under-culture, all the skills can just find their way through.Super competitive are probably the words that come to mind when you think of Wayne Bennett coached teams and Im sure England will be no different.Bennett turned the struggling Broncos into grand finalists in one season upon his rreturn to Brisbane last year.ddddddddddddStar Broncos back-rower Gillett knows better than most what Bennett is capable of.He was pretty good at the Broncs in terms of turning things around quickly just by being simple, Gillett said.He sat down with each player at the Broncos and I suppose he will do the same with England, sit each of them down and talk about what he wants them to buy into.If they all buy into what he has got to say and the direction he wants to go they will go a long way and they will be a true threat.In players such as Sam Burgess, James Graham and Gareth Widdop, Bennett has a number of NRL hardened players to lean on.There has been talk Bennett has been busy attempting to entice players such as Brett and Josh Morris and Chris McQueen, who can qualify for England through their grandparents, to switch allegiance.That will be confirmed, or otherwise later next week when the England squad is named.Either way, Gillett believes the England will be tough to beat.The team that Wayne will choose will be competitive and he will make sure they do all the little things, all the tough plays right, which if you have a full team of that they are very hard to stop, Gillett said. 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