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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (21-25, third in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (28-19, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Monday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Patrick Corbin<\/a> (1-1, 3.93 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Yankees: Ryan Weathers<\/a> (2-2, 3.00 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 54 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -204, Blue Jays +168; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees start a four-game series at home against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.<\/p>\n

New York is 14-6 in home games and 28-19 overall. Yankees pitchers have a collective 3.31 ERA, which leads the AL.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 8-14 in road games and 21-25 overall. The Blue Jays have a 13-4 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Aaron Judge<\/a> has eight doubles, 16 home runs and 30 RBIs for the Yankees. Ben Rice<\/a> is 9 for 40 with a double, four home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with 10 home runs while slugging .448. Andres Gimenez<\/a> is 4 for 31 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 3-7, .214 batting average, 4.21 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 5-5, .207 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Max Fried: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Caballero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Angel Chivilli: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Jasson Dominguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Tommy Nance: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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 (21-25, third in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees (28-19, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[106,6081,3426,2043,383,5,731,377,2554,1216,75686,310,3289,387,1965,3685,19,381,4,62,444,1073,282,70,2553,2077],"class_list":["post-702086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-aaron-judge","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-andres-gimenez","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jose-berrios","tag-jose-caballero","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116594776674333610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702086","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=702086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702086\/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=702086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}