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The Toronto Blue Jays, with 30 games left in their regular season, begin a sprint, with hurdles, to the finish line Tuesday night against the visiting Kansas City Royals. <\/p>\n
The Jays, who began the day two games behind the surging Cleveland Guardians for the third and final American League wild-card berth, play their next six games at Rogers Centre, before hitting the road for nine games in nine days. <\/p>\n
The Houston Astros are half a game behind the Guardians, who have won five games in a row. The Texas Rangers took over top spot in the AL West on Monday night. And the Minnesota Twins, who beat the Athletics 9-6 last night, are tied with the Jays and two games back of the Guardians. <\/p>\n
The Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers remain in the wild-card hunt as well. <\/p>\n
Veteran right-hander Max Scherzer will start for the Jays (64-68) on Tuesday at 7:07 p.m. ET, while right-hander Seth Lugo will be on the mound for the Royals (58-74), who have won eight in a row but are still six games behind Toronto in the wild-card race. <\/p>\n
The teams also play tomorrow and Thursday, before the Mariners (63-69) visit Toronto for a three-game weekend series. The Mariners are a game behind the Blue Jays entering Tuesday\u2019s action. <\/p>\n
The Jays have won 13 of 22 games this month and had won seven straight series until losing two of three to the Yankees over the weekend in New York. <\/p>\n
The Jays, entering the softest part of their regular-season schedule, have no games left against a team above .500. Their remaining opponents have a combined winning percentage of .464, and 18 of those games will be against their immediate wild-card competition. <\/p>\n
And 15 of their final 30 games will be played at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-871349","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\/871349","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=871349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}