The target of Toronto Blue Jais will be a target to go above 500 for the first time in 3 1/2 week on Thursday afternoon.
Blue Jais, which was 12–11 on April 21, surprised his three-game chains against rays with a win on Wednesday night with a win 3–1. The Toronto season is 21-21.
In Wednesday’s game, there was a three -run homer with two outsiders in the sixth innings by Alajandro Kirk against Antar Ryan Pepiot.
Meanwhile, the rays are trying to go up to .500 and are using as a starting point for better things. Damage dropped him by 19-23.
“It seems that we are following ourselves to go up to 500,” Raz Manager Kevin Cash said before the initial game of the series on Tuesday. “Surely, we should not have a .500 club, or in that room, but our first step is probably to reach there.”
Blue Jais has been scheduled to launch the right-handed Kevin Gaursman (3-3, 3.97 ERA) on Thursday. In 23 Career Games (21 start), it is 8–8 with 3.76 ERA vs. rays.
Tampa Bay is expected to compete with the right-handed Zack Little (2-5, 4.40). She is 1-0 with 3.38 ERAs in four career games against Blue Jais. In his two starts, he has not allowed an earned run in 11 2/3 innings.
Both teams will try to win their second consecutive series.
After the Wild 11–9 win of the Rage on Tuesday, the teams played it tightly on Wednesday.
Pepiat was disappointed about his expensive sixth innings on Wednesday. He ran Vladimir Gurro Junior after going ahead 0–2 in the count. Daulton Varsho sang with two outsiders, and Kirk hit a poorly located 0–2 in the right-level ground for home runs. The pitch was in the middle of the plate, was slightly above, but was not as high as Pepiot wanted.
“He just found it high,” said Cash. “It seemed that it caught a lot of plates and maybe below what he wanted to do in the middle of 0-2. He threw a cat from a ballgame. He had returned.
Pepiot said: “Get Kirk 0-2, throw the ball properly in the middle, and that’s going to happen. A mistake, it’s the name of the game.”
Kirk said he feels Blue Jais – who have won five of their last six matches – this season is a better vibi than last year, when he was the last in the American League East.
“It has nothing to do with talent … but the way we are playing,” Kirk said. “And our chemistry, not only in the club house, but also in the dugout during the game. We are together regardless of the situation or score.”
Blue Jais manager John Schneider said that the team is a “really close-bent group”, which is able to roam together regardless of that the game is going, and it has enabled Toronto to rally in major places.
“When you do this, you feel more confident that you can,” he said. “This is a feeling that people have.”
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