The Jays are back on top of the wild card standings 👀
Welcome to Blue Jays Scoreboard Watching, a regular look at how Toronto is faring in relation to its playoff rivals. Here we'll provide an update on the standings, recap what each team did the night before and look ahead to their next matchup. Only the Yankees and teams within five games of the Blue Jays in the wild-card race will be included.
Toronto tapped Mitch White to soak up the majority of the innings in Game 1, and the right-hander kept his club in the game by allowing three runs over his six frames. The Blue Jays failed to score against Rays southpaw Jeffrey Springs then made things interesting with two runs in the eighth inning before ultimately falling 4-2.
Manoah overcame a stomach bug that held him out of Game 1 and turned in a gutsy 6.2-inning, two-run gem in the second game to lead the Blue Jays past the Rays 7-2 at Rogers Centre. The home side broke through with a four-run seventh inning then tacked on two more in the eighth to pull back ahead of Tampa Bay in the standings.
The Blue Jays and Rays have two games remaining in this series then play four more in Florida later this month. Both teams still have hopes of catching the New York Yankees for the AL East crown, though the Rays will be hard-pressed to make up their 6.5-game deficit since they don't have any head-to-head matchups left. The Blue Jays sit six games back of New York and host the Bronx Bombers for a three-game set at the end of September.
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