It is Joey Votto’s birthday, he’s 42. Happy Birthday Joey.

I’m sure you’ve seen all the stuff about the Phillies fan who demanded the baseball from the 10-year-old boy. Well now a company has offered her $5000 to sign the ball and write ‘sorry’ on it and they will give it back to the boy. I think they got $5000 worth of promotion for it already.

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And there is some good news, the A’s have beat the Red Sox today, so they are now 3.5 games back of the Jays.

Lineups. No Jose Altuve. No Davis Schneider

Today’s Lineups

ASTROS

BLUE JAYS

Jeremy Pena – SS

George Springer – DH

Yordan Alvarez – LF

Nathan Lukes – RF

Carlos Correa – 3B

Vladimir Guerrero – 1B

Christian Walker – 1B

Daulton Varsho – CF

Jesus Sanchez – RF

Alejandro Kirk – C

Jake Meyers – CF

Addison Barger – 3B

Victor Caratini – DH

Ernie Clement – SS

Yainer Diaz – C

Joey Loperfido – LF

Ramon Urias – 2B

Andres Gimenez – 2B

Jason Alexander – RHP

Jose Berrios – RHP

Go Jays Go.