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New York Yankees<\/a> (68-53, second in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (59-64, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (6-5, 3.35 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 87 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Shane Bieber (3-2, 5.48 ERA, 1.66 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -155, Blue Jays +128; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays host the New York Yankees on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 59-64 overall and 31-32 at home. The Blue Jays have a 20-12 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

New York is 68-53 overall and 37-26 on the road. Yankees hitters have a collective .411 slugging percentage to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the eighth time these teams square off this season. The Yankees are up 4-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ernie Clement<\/a> has 28 doubles, a triple and nine home runs for the Blue Jays. Alejandro Kirk<\/a> is 12 for 34 with a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples and 32 home runs for the Yankees. Trent Grisham<\/a> is 12 for 42 with five doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 6-4, .233 batting average, 3.69 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 6-4, .213 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Jake Bloss<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jonatan Clase: 10-Day IL (foot), Spencer Arrighetti<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Luis Urias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (knee), Patrick Corbin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Addison Barger<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Yankees: Carlos Rodon: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kervin Castro<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Cody Bellinger: 10-Day IL (leg), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg)<\/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":"New York Yankees (68-53, second in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (59-64, fourth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,3426,383,5,731,377,2554,1216,6130,75686,2281,310,4883,4619,387,58674,6646,1678,19,4,62,444,4678,282,70,2553,122,2077],"class_list":["post-778408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jake-bloss","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kervin-castro","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-luis-urias","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117093284112203117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778408","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=778408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}