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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (88-62, first in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (73-77, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n Tampa, Florida; Tuesday, 7:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Jose Berrios<\/a> (9-5, 3.99 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 135 strikeouts); Rays: Ryan Pepiot<\/a> (11-10, 3.59 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 161 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rays -111, Blue Jays -108; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays are looking to prolong a five-game win streak with a victory against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay has a 38-37 record in home games and a 73-77 record overall. The Rays have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .251.<\/p>\n Toronto is 38-37 in road games and 88-62 overall. Blue Jays hitters are batting a collective .269, the best team batting average in the AL.<\/p>\n The matchup Tuesday is the eighth time these teams match up this season. The Rays have a 5-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> has 28 doubles, a triple, 24 home runs and 80 RBIs while hitting .295 for the Rays. Jake Mangum<\/a> is 10 for 31 with a double over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has 33 doubles, 23 home runs and 80 RBIs for the Blue Jays. Bo Bichette<\/a> is 10 for 27 with four doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 2-8, .228 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n Blue Jays: 7-3, .260 batting average, 1.98 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rays: Jonny Deluca: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Ryan Pepiot: day-to-day (rest), Brian Van Belle<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mason Englert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Stuart Fairchild<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Taylor Walls<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Jonathan Aranda<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Hunter Bigge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Alex Faedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Lavender: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Blue Jays: Bo Bichette: 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), Angel Bastardo<\/a>: 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 \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n \n recommended\n <\/p>\n Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Toronto Blue Jays (88-62, first in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (73-77, fourth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-147699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}