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GameThread Game #158: Yankees at Blue Jays

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MLB: New York Yankees at Toronto Blue Jays John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports

The Jays are looking to salvage their season playoff chances in what feels like a must win game. They’ll be up against Gerrit Cole, so they have their work cut out for them. Let’s hope the bats find a resurgence and we can be off to the races.

I’ll say again, should the game go sour early on, let’s please try to keep from piling on an abundance of negativity. We have 5 games left, and the Jays are still in it. Let’s enjoy the remaining games and commiserate together so this can be a fun place to be.

Here is tonight’s lineup. McGuire will catch this one (Montoyo said he likes the way he worked with Berríos recently), Gurriel will DH again, and Dickerson gets the start in left.

Today's Lineups

YANKEES BLUE JAYS
DJ LeMahieu - 3B George Springer - CF
Anthony Rizzo - 1B Marcus Semien - 2B
Aaron Judge - RF Vladimir Guerrero - 1B
Giancarlo Stanton - DH Bo Bichette - SS
Joey Gallo - LF Teoscar Hernandez - RF
Gleyber Torres - 2B Lourdes Gurriel - DH
Gio Urshela - SS Corey Dickerson - LF
Brett Gardner - CF Santiago Espinal - 3B
Kyle Higashioka - C Reese McGuire - C
Gerrit Cole - RHP Jose Berrios - RHP

Poll

When it comes to the playoffs, would you rather:

This poll is closed

  • 83%
    The Jays come close to making it but fall short
    (54 votes)
  • 16%
    Been out of it a while ago
    (11 votes)
65 votes total Vote Now

Poll

Tonight the Jays will have

This poll is closed

  • 79%
    more runs via the HR than small ball
    (49 votes)
  • 20%
    more small ball runs than HRs
    (13 votes)
62 votes total Vote Now

Poll

Will Stanton and/or Judge homer tonight?

This poll is closed

  • 40%
    Seems inevitable
    (26 votes)
  • 60%
    Nope, we got this
    (39 votes)
65 votes total Vote Now

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