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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (19-25, fourth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (20-25, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Saturday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Mason Fluharty (2-0, 5.40 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Tigers: Casey Mize<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -126, Blue Jays +106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays will try to break a five-game road slide when they face the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 20-25 overall and 13-6 at home. The Tigers have a 6-3 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 6-14 in road games and 19-25 overall. The Blue Jays have a 2-8 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Dillon Dingler<\/a> has nine doubles and eight home runs for the Tigers. Gage Workman<\/a> is 4 for 15 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> has a .291 batting average to lead the Blue Jays, and has 13 doubles and two home runs. Yohendrick Pinango<\/a> is 12 for 34 with five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 2-8, .204 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 3-7, .221 batting average, 3.67 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Ty Madden: day-to-day (arm), Gleyber Torres: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ac joint), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nathan Lukes: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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

___<\/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 (19-25, fourth in the AL East) vs. Detroit Tigers (20-25, fourth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[6081,3426,383,29375,5,2259,399,147,53,2583,1390,6130,75686,514,713,1329,387,388,391,19,381,4,768,594,70,33608,2077,61210],"class_list":["post-700324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-casey-mize","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-gage-workman","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-jose-berrios","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-tigers","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-troy-melton","tag-yimi-garcia","tag-yohendrick-pinango"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583416677457739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700324","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=700324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}