Toronto Blue Jays (7-12, fifth in the AL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (12-8, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Saturday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Max Scherzer (1-2, 9.58 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen (1-1, 3.60 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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LINE: Diamondbacks -122, Blue Jays +102; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays, on a three-game losing streak, take on the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n
Arizona has a 12-8 record overall and a 6-2 record at home. Diamondbacks pitchers have a collective 3.81 ERA, which ranks 10th in the majors.<\/p>\n
Toronto has a 7-12 record overall and a 1-6 record in road games. Blue Jays hitters are batting a collective .241, which ranks third in the AL.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Ketel Marte leads the Diamondbacks with four home runs while slugging .408. Ildemaro Vargas is 14 for 41 with four doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Daulton Varsho has four doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs for the Blue Jays. Andres Gimenez is 11 for 36 with three doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 7-3, .266 batting average, 3.33 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n
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Blue Jays: 3-7, .244 batting average, 5.32 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Carlos Santana: 10-Day IL (groin), Pavin Smith: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gabriel Moreno: 10-Day IL (back), Jordan Lawlar: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tyler Locklear: 10-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lourdes Gurriel Jr.: 10-Day IL (knee), Blake Walston: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Saalfrank: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Alejandro Kirk: 10-Day IL (hand), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Daulton Varsho: day-to-day (knee), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (elbow), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), George Springer: 10-Day IL (toe), Addison Barger: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Berrios: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays (7-12, fifth in the AL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (12-8, third in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[1118,6081,3426,2043,13491,383,22,5,7905,377,2554,754,1717,54086,97,18794,854,5993,311,16566,543,387,651,729,29408,1447,381,4,352,1271,282,70,2553,5196,12345,2077,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-678232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-a-j-puk","9":"tag-addison-barger","10":"tag-alejandro-kirk","11":"tag-andres-gimenez","12":"tag-andrew-saalfrank","13":"tag-anthony-santander","14":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","15":"tag-baseball","16":"tag-blake-walston","17":"tag-blue-jays","18":"tag-bluejays","19":"tag-bowden-francis","20":"tag-carlos-santana","21":"tag-cody-ponce","22":"tag-corbin-burnes","23":"tag-cristian-mena","24":"tag-daulton-varsho","25":"tag-gabriel-moreno","26":"tag-george-springer","27":"tag-ildemaro-vargas","28":"tag-jordan-lawlar","29":"tag-jose-berrios","30":"tag-justin-martinez","31":"tag-ketel-marte","32":"tag-lazaro-estrada","33":"tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","34":"tag-max-scherzer","35":"tag-mlb","36":"tag-pavin-smith","37":"tag-shane-bieber","38":"tag-toronto","39":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","40":"tag-torontobluejays","41":"tag-trey-yesavage","42":"tag-tyler-locklear","43":"tag-yimi-garcia","44":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}