Friday, September 6, 2019 | 7:10 pm
Tropicana Field | St. Petersburg, FL
Clay Buchholz (1-3, 5.45, 1.35) vs. Brendan McKay (2-3, 5.55, 1.49)
PREAMBLE:
The Blue Jays look to even things up in tonight's second game of a four-game series against the wild-card leading Rays. The Jays are riding a four-game losing streak and the Rays are in a 7-1 stretch as they fight to hold off the Athletics and Indians for one of two wild card spots.
Clay Buchholz is coming off his first win in a full year and hopefully his next win doesn't take anywhere near as long to come... like, tonight perhaps? He'll face Brendan McKay, who is back up after a stint on the injured list and lost 4-3 to the Jays on August 7th in his one previous appearance against the Jays. Buchholz is 9-8, 2.62 in 24 previous starts against the Rays.
NOTES:
Ho hum. Just riding out the stretch as the Jays look to simultaneously improve their draft position while also avoiding 100 losses and giving their rookies as many looks as possible.
Vlad a gud swimmer.
Bo a gud HR hitter.
Reese a gud catcher at catching runners well before they arrive at 2nd base.
The rest of the team, well ...
Cool happening in last night's Miami-Pittsburgh game: Brian Moran of the Marlins made his major-league debut at the age of 30, and the second batter he faced just happened to be his brother, Colin. First time in MLB history a pitcher faced his brother in his debut. Brian 1, Colin 0 as Brian struck out Colin.
LINEUPS:
This is your "dog days of September" game threat.