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Tampa Bay Rays (12-9, third in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (7-9, fourth in the AL East)

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Tampa Bay Rays (12-9, third in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (7-9, fourth in the AL East)

Buffalo, New York; Sunday, 3:40 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Yonny Chirinos (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 WHIP, 0 strikeouts) Blue Jays: Matt Shoemaker (0-1, 4.86 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)

LINE: Rays favoured by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 10 1/2 runs

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays face the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

The Blue Jays went 33-43 in division play in 2019. Toronto pitchers had a WHIP of 1.43 last season while striking out 8.2 hitters per game.

The Rays went 44-32 in division play in 2019. Tampa Bay hit .254 as a team with 3.3 extra base hits per game and 291 total doubles last season.

The teams meet for the fourth time this year. The season series is tied 2-2.

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Trent Thornton: (elbow), Ken Giles: (right elbow), Yennsy Diaz: (lat), Derek Fisher: (left quad).

Rays: Colin Poche: (elbow), Charlie Morton: (shoulder), Andrew Kittredge: (elbow), Oliver Drake: (right biceps), Yonny Chirinos: (right triceps), Jose Alvarado: (shoulder).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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