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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (52-60, fifth in the AL East) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (58-55, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Shane Bieber (2-2, 5.74 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Astros: Cristian Javier (1-1, 7.17 ERA, 1.83 WHIP, 21 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -136, Blue Jays +113; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros play the Toronto Blue Jays after Yordan Alvarez<\/a> had four hits against the Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Houston is 58-55 overall and 29-27 at home. The Astros have gone 39-23 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Toronto has gone 24-29 in road games and 52-60 overall. The Blue Jays have the eighth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .243.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Monday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Alvarez has 24 doubles and 35 home runs for the Astros. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 21 for 47 with three doubles, a triple, five home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> has 27 doubles, a triple, eight home runs and 35 RBIs for the Blue Jays. George Springer<\/a> is 13 for 38 with two doubles, a triple, two home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 9-1, .286 batting average, 3.74 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 6-4, .265 batting average, 2.90 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Mike Burrows: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Arrighetti<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Lenyn Sosa: 60-Day IL (wrist), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jonatan Clase: 10-Day IL (foot), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vladimir Guerrero<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (hamstring), Addison Barger<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Patrick Corbin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (52-60, fifth in the AL East) vs. Houston Astros (58-55, first in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,383,5,377,2554,13576,3225,6130,75686,311,54,5828,4619,387,19,4,444,4678,282,70,2553,93,2077,2264],"class_list":["post-768733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-addison-barger","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-george-springer","tag-houston-astros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-yimi-garcia","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117030703801051828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768733","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=768733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768733\/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=768733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}