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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (47-56, fifth in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (52-49, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage (4-5, 3.78 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 78 strikeouts); Red Sox: Patrick Sandoval (0-0, 4.82 ERA, 1.71 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -128, Blue Jays +106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox host the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 52-49 record overall and a 23-28 record at home. The Red Sox are 38-9 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 47-56 overall and 21-26 on the road. The Blue Jays have the eighth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .241.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the seventh time these teams square off this season. The Blue Jays have a 5-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 21 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs and 50 RBIs while hitting .261 for the Red Sox. Caleb Durbin<\/a> is 12 for 37 with a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> has 23 doubles, a triple and eight home runs for the Blue Jays. Nathan Lukes<\/a> is 10 for 34 with a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 9-1, .247 batting average, 2.57 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 3-7, .210 batting average, 4.81 ERA, outscored by 26 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Connelly Early: 15-Day IL (elbow), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 10-Day IL (forearm), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ranger Suarez: 15-Day IL (groin), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Addison Barger: 60-Day IL (elbow), Patrick Corbin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jonatan Clase: 10-Day IL (foot), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jesus Sanchez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Berrios<\/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

___<\/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 (47-56, fifth in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (52-49, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[383,5,141,48,2542,3615,6130,75686,4942,4619,5416,387,6646,19,1248,381,4,8678,444,89,2543,793,70,606,2077,15821],"class_list":["post-760100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jose-berrios","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-lukes","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-roman-anthony","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-yimi-garcia","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116974257657921162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760100","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=760100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}