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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (14-17, fourth in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (14-18, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Patrick Corbin<\/a> (0-0, 3.72 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Twins: Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> (0-4, 6.30 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 15 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -112, Blue Jays -107; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins face the Toronto Blue Jays with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 9-8 record at home and a 14-18 record overall. The Twins have a 9-5 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 14-17 overall and 4-9 in road games. The Blue Jays are 11-4 in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the fifth time this season. The Twins are ahead 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan Jeffers<\/a> has four home runs, 15 walks and 20 RBIs while hitting .291 for the Twins. Byron Buxton<\/a> is 13 for 46 with two doubles, five home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> ranks sixth on the Blue Jays with seven extra base hits (two doubles and five home runs). Jesus Sanchez<\/a> is 6 for 26 with a double, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 3-7, .235 batting average, 4.87 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 6-4, .239 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Garrett Acton: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 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

___<\/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 (14-17, fourth in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins (14-18, fourth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[6081,3426,383,5,2223,43253,3916,75686,4942,387,3685,19,381,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,444,1252,3478,70,148,2077],"class_list":["post-687406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-minnesota-twins","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cody-laweryson","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-simeon-woods-richardson","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-twins","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116498505624556104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687406","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=687406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}