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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (7-12, fifth in the AL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (12-8, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Max Scherzer<\/a> (1-2, 9.58 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen<\/a> (1-1, 3.60 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Ketel Marte<\/a> leads the Diamondbacks with four home runs while slugging .408. Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> is 14 for 41 with four doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Daulton Varsho<\/a> has four doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs for the Blue Jays. Andres Gimenez<\/a> 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

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<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tyler Locklear: 10-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (knee), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Daulton Varsho: day-to-day (knee), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), George Springer: 10-Day IL (toe), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,3426,2043,13491,383,22,5,7905,377,2554,97,854,75686,16566,543,387,651,729,1447,19,381,4,282,70,2553,2077,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-678293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-addison-barger","9":"tag-alejandro-kirk","10":"tag-andres-gimenez","11":"tag-andrew-saalfrank","12":"tag-anthony-santander","13":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-blake-walston","16":"tag-blue-jays","17":"tag-bluejays","18":"tag-corbin-burnes","19":"tag-daulton-varsho","20":"tag-event_preview","21":"tag-ildemaro-vargas","22":"tag-jordan-lawlar","23":"tag-jose-berrios","24":"tag-justin-martinez","25":"tag-ketel-marte","26":"tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","27":"tag-major-league-baseball","28":"tag-max-scherzer","29":"tag-mlb","30":"tag-toronto","31":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","32":"tag-torontobluejays","33":"tag-yimi-garcia","34":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116425273097641322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678293","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=678293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}