Blue Jays back home for Game 3 of ALCS
Posted Oct 17, 2016 10:52:26 AM.
Last Updated Oct 17, 2016 10:54:35 AM.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are back home Monday night for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against Cleveland.
Thousands of baseball fans are expected to flood the streets of Toronto. It’s the first time Cleveland will play the Blue Jays in a playoff game in Toronto.
The Jays are 0-2 in the seven game series after scoring just one run during the first two away games. Part of the reason for the lack of offence has been Andrew Miller, Cleveland’s dominant reliever who’s been virtually unhittable.
Trevor Bauer will take the lead on the mound on Monday. Bauer had been scheduled to start Game 2, but was pushed back after he said he cut the pinkie on his right hand while fixing a drone.
Bauer, who needed stitches to close the wound, is a self-described “nerd” and big “Star Wars” fan who studied mechanical engineering in college and enjoys playing around with the flying objects.
Marcus Stroman will start for the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays totalled one run over Games 1 and 2, and of their 10 hits, just one came against the Indians’ bullpen. Jose Bautista is 0 for 6, Edwin Encarnacion 2 for 7, Troy Tulowitzki 1 for 8 and Russell Martin 1 for 7.
Toronto was fourth in the majors in home runs during the regular season got off to a powerful start in the playoffs, but hasn’t hit one in 27 innings, since the first inning of Game 3 in their AL Division Series against Texas.
