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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (26-13, first in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (18-22, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Monday, 7:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (2-1, 2.95 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 37 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman<\/a> (2-2, 3.28 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -137, Rays +115; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays host the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Toronto has an 18-22 record overall and a 12-9 record in home games. The Blue Jays have a 2-6 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 26-13 record overall and a 12-9 record in road games. The Rays have a 6-1 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> has two home runs, 19 walks and 17 RBIs while hitting .308 for the Blue Jays. Daulton Varsho<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two doubles, a home run and two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Aranda<\/a> has five doubles, seven home runs and 29 RBIs for the Rays. Junior Caminero<\/a> is 8 for 34 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 4-6, .251 batting average, 3.71 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 8-2, .260 batting average, 1.42 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Addison Barger: day-to-day (elbow), Nathan Lukes: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rays: Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (26-13, first in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (18-22, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[3426,383,5,377,2554,854,1999,6925,75686,12626,307,387,4682,389,19,1095,381,7908,4,1956,1555,4274,68,282,70,2553,93,2077],"class_list":{"0":"post-695958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-toronto-blue-jays","7":"tag-alejandro-kirk","8":"tag-anthony-santander","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-daulton-varsho","13":"tag-drew-rasmussen","14":"tag-edwin-uceta","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-joe-boyle","17":"tag-jonathan-aranda","18":"tag-jose-berrios","19":"tag-junior-caminero","20":"tag-kevin-gausman","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","23":"tag-max-scherzer","24":"tag-michael-grove","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-ryan-pepiot","27":"tag-steven-matz","28":"tag-steven-wilson","29":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","30":"tag-toronto","31":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","32":"tag-torontobluejays","33":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","34":"tag-yimi-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116555046116988324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695958","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=695958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}