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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (12-18, fifth in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (13-16, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Wednesday, 3:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Brayan Bello<\/a> (1-3, 9.00 ERA, 2.27 WHIP, 15 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Eric Lauer<\/a> (1-3, 6.75 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -133, Red Sox +113; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 13-16 record overall and a 9-8 record at home. The Blue Jays are 8-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 12-18 record overall and a 7-10 record in road games. The Red Sox are 10-1 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> has seven doubles and two home runs for the Blue Jays. Ernie Clement<\/a> is 14 for 42 with seven doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has six doubles, a triple, four home runs and 13 RBIs for the Red Sox. Willson Contreras<\/a> is 8 for 39 with a double, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 6-4, .261 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 4-6, .231 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: George Springer: 10-Day IL (toe), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Nathan Lukes: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Patrick Sandoval: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Sonny Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (leg), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox (12-18, fifth in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (13-16, fourth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,3426,383,5,377,2554,48,5172,1497,6130,75686,5416,387,1093,19,381,4,1083,1587,282,70,2553,1946,93,409,606,2077],"class_list":["post-685704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brayan-bello","tag-eric-lauer","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jose-berrios","tag-justin-slaten","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-sonny-gray","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays","tag-triston-casas","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116487122037476296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685704","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=685704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}