{"id":132330,"date":"2025-09-10T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132330\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:26:07","slug":"blue-jays-face-the-astros-leading-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132330\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays face the Astros leading series 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (78-67, first in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (83-61, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Wednesday, 7:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Jason Alexander<\/a> (4-1, 4.68 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 52 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Jose Berrios<\/a> (9-5, 4.02 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 131 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays -134, Astros +113; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays face the Houston Astros, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 46-24 record in home games and an 83-61 record overall. The Blue Jays have the 10th-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.24.<\/p>\n

Houston is 78-67 overall and 35-35 on the road. The Astros have a 47-7 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Wednesday for the fifth time this season. The Astros lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ernie Clement<\/a> has 28 doubles, two triples and nine home runs for the Blue Jays. George Springer<\/a> is 10 for 37 with two doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yainer Diaz<\/a> has 21 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 61 RBI for the Astros. Yordan Alvarez<\/a> is 19 for 41 with three doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .270 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 3-7, .246 batting average, 4.05 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Bo Bichette<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Robinson Pina<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Sandlin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Bowden Francis<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Burr<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alek Manoah<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Angel Bastardo: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Astros: Luis Garcia<\/a>: day-to-day (elbow), Kaleb Ort: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Arrighetti: 15-Day IL (elbow), John Rooney<\/a>: 60-Day IL (concussion \/ nasal), Brendan Rodgers<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Pedro Leon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa: 15-Day IL (elbow), Josh Hader: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Isaac Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Zach Dezenzo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 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

Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros (78-67, first in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (83-61, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[91685,64,63,794,5163,591,85,5161],"class_list":["post-132330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-91685","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn","tag-houston-astros","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}