GameThread Game #48: Angels at Blue Jays

The Angels are in town, and with them come two pretty hyped players (and deservedly so) in Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. It will be interesting to see how the Jays pitchers decide to pitch them. Godspeed.

Hopefully the day off did everyone some good. It's time to right this ship and get back to our winning ways.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons on the 10 Japanese media members crowded in his office pre game: "How come Kawasaki didn’t have a following like this?"

— Rob Longley (@longleysunsport) May 22, 2018

Gibbons says Devon Travis is no longer locked into two games on, one game off like he was to start the season.
Gibbons on not having a natural shortstop on the roster: "We’ll run with this, see what happens. That’s all I can tell you."#BlueJays

— Scott Mitchell (@ScottyMitchTSN) May 22, 2018

Here are the lineups for tonight. The Halos have a hitter with a 64 wRC+ batting lead off and another with a 84 wRC+ batting fourth. Devon Travis is back up with the Blue Jays, batting 9th, and Urshela gets the start at shortstop. Solarte gets a rare day off.

GO JAYS GO!

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