GDT(3/3): Minnesota Twins @ Toronto Blue Jays - Hughes vs. Stroman - 12:37 PM ET

[fatcowxlive]

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Pitching Matchup:

 

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SP - Marcus Stroman (18.1 IP, 3 BB, 8.35 K/9, 1.47 BB/9, .316 BAA, .393 BABIP, 2.75 FIP) [R]

 

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SP - Phil Hughes (75.1 IP, 8 BB, 7.53 K/9, 0.96 BB/9, .257 BAA, .305 BABIP, 2.97 FIP) [R]

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Lineups:

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Jays Batting:

 

Team Batting:

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Team Pitching:

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Twins Batting:

 

Team Batting:

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Team Pitching:

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Notes:

 

MLB:

• No Important Notes Today.
  

 

Jays:

• Marcus Stroman is bidding to become the team's first rookie to win his first three starts since Mauro Gozzo in 1989. The right-hander, one of the Blue Jays' top pitching prospects, has been outstanding since being added to the rotation, yielding two runs with 13 strikeouts over 12 innings. He held St. Louis to one run Friday while scattering seven hits with seven strikeouts, two walks and a hit batter in six innings of a 3-1 win.
  
• Toronto is among the majors' leaders with a .261 average, .443 slugging percentage and 4.8 runs per game, while its 91 homers are the most in baseball. The offense has sputtered while dropping three of four games, mustering a .186 average - 2 for 22 with runners in scoring position - while being blanked in all three of those defeats. The Blue Jays had been shut out only once previously.
  
• Toronto has gone 16-5 over its last 21 games after starting the season 23-22.
  

 

Twins:

• Hughes looks to bounce back after permitting season highs of five runs and three homers in six innings of Friday's 5-4 loss to Houston. He had been 6-0 with a 1.99 ERA over his eight previous starts, during which he served up only two homers.
  
• Twins 2B Brian Dozier is 11/33 with three homers, six RBIs and nine runs in nine games. Half of his six hits in six games at Rogers Centre have left the park.
  
• Kendrys Morales, who signed with the Twins on Sunday, started at designated hitter and batted fifth on Tuesday night. He is 3-for-8 with a walk since debuting on Monday.
  

 

Standings:

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Venue:

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[Ehjays]

Good Job!!

 

Now Go jays Go!!

[sdyment]

Pillar to AAA

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/jays-recall-korecky-send-pillar-back-down/

[DickeyJohnsonWang]

that central division is oughtfully close.

[TheBoneCollector]

Really should win this series against the twins, going into the big series in baltimore.

[TheHurl]

Expect a late crowd. DVP is closed, Gardiner has two accidents. My parents left at 10:45 (cause they are old and that's what they do) and they just got off the DVP at Don Mills.

[G-Snarls]

Awesome

 

Thanks FCXL

 

And love the early, EARLY start today

 

Go Stro!!!

[G-Snarls]

Expect a late crowd. DVP is closed, Gardiner has two accidents. My parents left at 10:45 (cause they are old and that's what they do) and they just got off the DVP at Don Mills.

 

That sucks so bad...

[G-Snarls]

s***, Hughes has been good this year, eh?

[dineke]

12:30 start time is terrible. f*** the kids, they don't like baseball anyways.

[GD]

Good thing I had the early exam today lol

 

Hughes has been damn good. Wow.

[Stangstag]

Expect a late crowd. DVP is closed, Gardiner has two accidents. My parents left at 10:45 (cause they are old and that's what they do) and they just got off the DVP at Don Mills.

 

Ouch. Trying to get in or out of toronto is a f***ing joke right now. Pretty sure it has the worst travel times in all of north america.

[BJs]

I hate early time weekday games.

 

Anyways I want to see a convincing win tonight boys.

[G-Snarls]

Ouch. Trying to get in or out of toronto is a f***ing joke right now. Pretty sure it has the worst travel times in all of north america.

 

Boston used to be the worst but they finally fixed it

 

Toronto seems satisfied to just keep it as is, and willing to shut things down for up to 2 years just to do routine maintenance? (or is there some upgrading being done with this project???)

[vdubmvp]

cause they are old and that's what they do

 

lol

[G-Snarls]

Hooray for MLB.tv and unfettered internet access at work...

 

(on a day that I have time to check on the game intermittently)

[Angrioter]

Stream please

[gruber92]

Lets go STRO !!

[G-Snarls]

Fastballs low and on the corners

 

f***ing NICE, Stroman

[Abomination]

That looked awfully close to out at first on the initial pickoff attempt.

[gruber92]

Pretty nice size crowd today.

[Trouba95]

Perfectly placed FB by Stro there...95 down.

[DickeyJohnsonWang]

Stream please

http://blabseal.de/mets/ is pretty solid for the day games when mets aren't on

[gruber92]

K Mauer

 

Stroman looks good.

 

Two out..

[Trouba95]

Throw the curve!

[SpeedyGose]

f***. Hung it

[GD]

how many f***ing first inning dingers?

[Trouba95]

Darn...he hung it.

[Stangstag]

These first inning homeruns are killing us

[gruber92]

Why breaking ball? FFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Two run shot

 

2-0 Twins