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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (35-30, second in the NL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (32-34, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (7-2, 1.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 103 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Patrick Corbin<\/a> (2-2, 3.98 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 37 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -187, Blue Jays +155; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays host the Philadelphia Phillies to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 32-34 overall and 19-14 at home. The Blue Jays have the eighth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.06.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has a 16-13 record in road games and a 35-30 record overall. The Phillies have hit 82 total home runs to rank eighth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> has 11 doubles and three home runs for the Blue Jays. Brandon Valenzuela<\/a> is 10 for 33 with three doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper<\/a> has 11 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs and 37 RBIs for the Phillies. Brandon Marsh<\/a> is 15 for 34 with two doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .285 batting average, 5.54 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 7-3, .231 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho: day-to-day (wrist), Lazaro Estrada: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Tommy Nance<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Dylan Cease: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Phillies: Kyle Backhus<\/a>: 15-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":"Philadelphia Phillies (35-30, second in the NL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (32-34, third in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[6081,3426,383,5,12906,75686,4619,387,6646,19,381,4,444,144,25,4216,40,31700,70,93,2077],"class_list":["post-720526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-valenzuela","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-tommy-nance","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116714133492964856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720526","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=720526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720526\/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=720526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}