The 26-year-old rookie will start the finale of their three-game series against the Texas Rangers on Sunday, the Blue Jays announced Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Miles will make his ninth start of the season, and it will be the Blue Jays’ 23rd bullpen game of the season. They’ve gone 12-10 when deploying the strategy so far.<\/p>\n
It stands to reason that Miles won’t pitch deep into the game, as he hasn’t exceeded two innings or 44 pitches since July 22.<\/p>\n
The Rule-5 draft pick has been a success story for the Blue Jays this season, pitching to a 2.65 ERA with 87 strikeouts and 24 walks over 91.2 innings while shifting between a multi-inning role and traditional relief.<\/p>\n
He had pitched only 14.2 minor-league innings before making his MLB debut this year, and is now third among active Blue Jays in innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Spencer Arrighetti is expected to serve as a bulk arm behind Miles. The 26-year-old righty has a 4.90 ERA with 104 strikeouts and 62 walks over 108.1 innings this season.<\/p>\n
Arrighetti has struggled since joining the Blue Jays at the trade deadline, missing time with Morton’s neuroma and pitching to a 6.20 ERA over six appearances since getting healthy.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays are one game behind the Rangers and three games back of the Chicago White Sox for the final American League wild-card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26-year-old rookie will start the finale of their three-game series against the Texas Rangers on Sunday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-902968","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\/902968","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=902968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}