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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (69-71, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (70-69, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Thursday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Jose Soriano<\/a> (11-7, 3.51 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 149 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (5-14, 3.88 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 128 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -111, Guardians -110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians and Toronto Blue Jays play on Thursday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has gone 33-37 in home games and 70-69 overall. The Guardians have a 22-8 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 69-71 record overall and a 32-36 record in road games. The Blue Jays have the sixth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.94.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Thursday for the sixth time this season. The Blue Jays lead the season series 3-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 25 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs for the Guardians. Jose Ramirez<\/a> is 11 for 41 with four doubles, a home run and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with 28 home runs while slugging .440. Nathan Lukes<\/a> is 10 for 33 with three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 7-3, .262 batting average, 3.16 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 6-4, .264 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Patrick Corbin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jonatan Clase: 60-Day IL (foot), Addison Barger<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shane Bieber: 15-Day IL (back), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (knee), Luis Urias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Bloss<\/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 (69-71, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians (70-69, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,383,5,377,2554,75686,4883,387,3508,3685,1678,19,4,8678,444,282,70,2553,2077],"class_list":["post-795639","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-event_preview","tag-jake-bloss","tag-jose-berrios","tag-jose-soriano","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-luis-urias","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-lukes","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117206943232233094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795639","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=795639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795639\/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=795639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}