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Seattle Mariners<\/a> (64-70, third in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (65-70, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: Emerson Hancock<\/a> (7-7, 3.37 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 125 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Dylan Cease (8-5, 2.37 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 209 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays start a three-game series at home against the Seattle Mariners on Friday.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 65-70 record overall and a 34-35 record at home. The Blue Jays have a 31-52 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

Seattle is 64-70 overall and 27-39 on the road. The Mariners have a 32-10 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ernie Clement<\/a> has 29 doubles, a triple and nine home runs for the Blue Jays. Brett Bateman<\/a> is 15 for 41 with a double and a triple over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Randy Arozarena<\/a> has 26 doubles, a triple and 20 home runs for the Mariners. Josh Naylor<\/a> is 14 for 43 with three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 4-6, .279 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Mariners: 6-4, .211 batting average, 6.98 ERA, outscored by 33 runs<\/p>\n

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

Mariners: Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Matt Brash<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Will Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Luke Raley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Colt Emerson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Cooper Criswell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Wilcox: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/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":"Seattle Mariners (64-70, third in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (65-70, fifth in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[6081,383,5,4492,61374,22897,10947,764,6130,75686,4883,4619,387,94,1678,19,620,2053,4,444,1456,619,65,3235,70,16021,2077],"class_list":["post-790656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-addison-barger","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-brett-bateman","tag-colt-emerson","tag-cooper-criswell","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-bloss","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-josh-naylor","tag-luis-urias","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-matt-brash","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-will-wilson","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117173382249709391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790656","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=790656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790656\/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=790656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}