Toronto Blue Jays\u00a0(35-38, third in the AL East) vs.\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0(29-41, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boston; Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays:\u00a0Max Scherzer\u00a0(1-4, 10.23 ERA, 1.73 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Red Sox:\u00a0Jake Bennett\u00a0(1-2, 5.28 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Red Sox -128, Blue Jays +106; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays meet the Boston Red Sox leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boston is 29-41 overall and 12-23 at home. The Red Sox have a 5-10 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toronto has gone 14-20 in road games and 35-38 overall. The Blue Jays are 13-6 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday’s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The Blue Jays are up 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0Willson Contreras\u00a0leads the Red Sox with 29 extra base hits (11 doubles, two triples and 16 home runs).\u00a0Ceddanne Rafaela\u00a0is 12 for 41 with three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ernie Clement\u00a0has a .299 batting average to lead the Blue Jays, and has 20 doubles, a triple and seven home runs.\u00a0Nathan Lukes\u00a0is 10 for 38 with two RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 3-7, .230 batting average, 4.92 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blue Jays: 5-5, .265 batting average, 5.00 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Red Sox:\u00a0Roman Anthony: 10-Day IL (wrist),\u00a0Mickey Gasper: day-to-day (groin),\u00a0Nick Sogard: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jovani Moran: 15-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen),\u00a0Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist),\u00a0Romy Gonzalez: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee),\u00a0Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blue Jays:\u00a0Lenyn Sosa: 10-Day IL (wrist),\u00a0Daulton Varsho: 10-Day IL (wrist),\u00a0Lazaro Estrada: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Joe Mantiply: 60-Day IL (knee),\u00a0Addison Barger: 10-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Jose Berrios: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Yimi Garcia: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee),\u00a0Anthony Santander: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Toronto Blue Jays\u00a0(35-38, third in the AL East) vs.\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0(29-41, fifth in the AL East) Boston; Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays:\u00a0Max Scherzer\u00a0(1-4, 10.23 ERA, 1.73 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Red Sox:\u00a0Jake Bennett\u00a0(1-2, 5.28 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, eight strikeouts) LINE: Red Sox -128, Blue Jays +106; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417323,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417322\/revisions\/417323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}