Toronto Blue Jays (34-29, third in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins (34-29, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Saturday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman (5-4, 3.82 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 68 strikeouts); Twins: Chris Paddack (2-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Twins -130, Blue Jays +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays will try to extend a three-game win streak with a victory over the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n Minnesota is 34-29 overall and 18-9 in home games. Twins pitchers have a collective 3.51 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n Toronto has a 34-29 record overall and a 12-16 record in road games. The Blue Jays have a 15-7 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Ty France has 10 doubles, four home runs and 33 RBIs for the Twins. Willi Castro is 11 for 36 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has 11 doubles and eight home runs while hitting .274 for the Blue Jays. Addison Barger is 11 for 33 with a double and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 5-5, .253 batting average, 4.74 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n Blue Jays: 8-2, .289 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Twins: Pablo Lopez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Correa: day-to-day (back), Luke Keaschall: 60-Day IL (forearm), Danny Coulombe: 15-Day IL (forearm), Michael Tonkin: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Anthony Santander: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Max Scherzer: 60-Day IL (thumb), Ryan Burr: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Sandlin: 15-Day IL (back), Alek Manoah: 60-Day IL (elbow), Angel Bastardo: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays (34-29, third in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins (34-29, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[6081,7900,383,5,377,2554,3225,752,7792,854,389,413,381,3479,60,4,12047,1997,282,70,2553,3197,93,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-85645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-addison-barger","9":"tag-alek-manoah","10":"tag-anthony-santander","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-blue-jays","13":"tag-bluejays","14":"tag-carlos-correa","15":"tag-chris-paddack","16":"tag-danny-coulombe","17":"tag-daulton-varsho","18":"tag-kevin-gausman","19":"tag-luke-keaschall","20":"tag-max-scherzer","21":"tag-michael-tonkin","22":"tag-minnesota-twins","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-nick-sandlin","25":"tag-pablo-lopez","26":"tag-toronto","27":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","28":"tag-torontobluejays","29":"tag-ty-france","30":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","31":"tag-willi-castro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114641104007353701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85645","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=85645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}