Blue Jays place Bieber on injured list
The Blue Jays lost the finale in New York and placed Shane Bieber on the injured list Tuesday, thinning a rotation as they open a series with Kansas City two games back of a wild card spot.
Soriano's night undone in the finale
Yankees1-3Yankees4-3Yankees3-8The Blue Jays lost 8-3 to the Yankees on August 23 to close out a series they opened with a 3-1 loss on August 21 before answering with a 4-3 win on August 22. José Soriano started the finale and lasted 5.0 innings, allowing 7 hits and 5 earned runs with 3 walks and 7 strikeouts.
Toronto is 2-3 over its last five games, a stretch that also included a split two-game set with Tampa Bay before the trip to New York. At 64-68, the club sits two games back of the final AL Wild Card spot, with an elimination number of 17.
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The Blue Jays placed Shane Bieber on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with right teres major inflammation, Arden Zwelling of Sportsnet.ca reports, pulling a starter out of the mix just days after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. returned from his own injured-list stint.
Guerrero was reinstated from a seven-day injured list on August 22, per MLB Trade Rumors, after going on the concussion IL on August 15. Andres Gimenez remains day-to-day with a hamstring injury that kept him out of Sunday's lineup against the Yankees.
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The Blue Jays host the Royals tonight, sending Max Scherzer to the mound against Kansas City's Seth Lugo. Scherzer is 1-6 with a 7.40 ERA and was rocked for 7 runs on 5 hits over 4.0 innings in a loss to Tampa Bay on August 19. Lugo, 5-7 with a 4.71 ERA, went 6.0 innings and allowed 5 runs on 9 hits without a decision against the Athletics that same day.
Toronto is favored at home, and the market reads the total as middling — no runaway offensive night expected from either side. Scherzer's ERA says the Royals could get to him early, while Lugo's own recent line offers little reassurance for Kansas City if the Blue Jays' bats show up.