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Josh Donaldson (calf) is not in Tuesday's lineup against the Brewers. Donaldson exited Sunday's game with right calf tightness, but he was still hoping to play in Tuesday's home opener. He doesn't feel well enough to start, but he's available off the bench. Consider him day-to-day. Ryan Goins will fill in at third base. Hazel Mae on Twitter

Game 7: Home opener Bautista (2 Pts)- Donaldson (2 Pts)- Morales (3 pts)- Tulo (4 Pts)- Martin (4 Pts)- Smoak (5 Pts)- Pearce (5 Pts)- Spanky Travis (6 Pts)- o2 Pillar (7 Pts)- Barney (9 Pts)- Carerra (9 Pts)- Goins (9 Pts)- Bench (10 Pts)

C'mon man, you think people in Cleveland are worried about EE? Can you stop with the small sample opinions, please.

Toronto Blue Jays Line-up... 1. Devon Travis ® 2B 2. Jose Bautista ® RF 3. Kendrys Morales (S) DH 4. Troy Tulowitzki ® SS 5. Russell Martin ® C 6. Justin Smoak (S) 1B 7. Steve Pearce ® LF 8. Kevin Pillar ® CF 9. Ryan Goins (L) 3B SP J.A. Happ LHP... Happ tossed seven strong innings in his last start, allowing just three earned runs, but he was undone by a bloop and a blast vs. Baltimore. Adam Jones hit the decisive two-run homer, but it also went just 344 feet. Milwaukee Brewers Line-up... 1. Jonathan Villar (S) 2B 2. Keon Broxton ® CF 3. Ryan Braun ® LF 4. Travis Shaw (L) DH 5. Domingo Santana ® RF 6. Jesus Aguilar ® 1B 7. Hernan Perez ® 3B 8. Manny Pina ® C 9. Orlando Arcia ® SS SP Wily Peralta RHP... Peralta surged to the finish last season thanks in part to a few extra ticks on his fastball, which he attributed to improved mechanics. His second pitch of 2017 registered 98.8 mph, a good sign he carried those mechanics into this season. Game Notes... The Blue Jays expect to get closer Roberto Osuna back from the 10-day disabled list in time for their home opener on Tuesday, when the Brewers make a rare Interleague visit to Rogers Centre. Osuna has mostly been sidelined since returning from the World Baseball Classic with neck spasms. He threw a side session at Tropicana Field on Saturday and was declared good to go beginning on Tuesday, when Wily Peralta starts for Milwaukee opposite Toronto's J.A. Happ. "I feel bad to have let my teammates down for 10 days, but I think I'm going to come back stronger," Osuna said. "That's what I have on my mind, and obviously trying to be 100 percent and help the team to win games." Osuna picked a good time to make a comeback. Tuesday marks the Blue Jays' 41st home opener, and their 28th at Rogers Centre. The stadium, originally called SkyDome, hosted its first Major League game on June 5, 1989 -- a 5-3 Brewers win over the Blue Jays. Gary Sheffield's first-inning groundout scored Paul Molitor for SkyDome's first run before the Blue Jays' Fred McGriff hit the stadium's first homer in the fourth inning. Glenn Braggs also homered that day for Milwaukee. The Brewers were regular visitors until they moved to the National League in 1988. Since then, the teams' meetings have been more sporadic, with the Brewers visiting in 2005 and '14, and the Blue Jays going to Miller Park in '07 and '12. When the teams last met for two games at Rogers Centre in 2014, the Blue Jays swept the series. "It's going to be amazing. I really miss that place," Osuna said of his return to action. "I think it's going to be a good season. Gearing up for everybody, so I'm really excited about that." Things to know about this game • The Brewers were back to full strength when outfielders Ryan Braun and Keon Broxton returned to the starting lineup on Sunday after injury scares. Their health will help cover Milwaukee's first two games of the season with the designated hitter rule in play. Braun was a late scratch on Saturday with a stiff lower back. Broxton was out of the lineup on Friday and Saturday, though he was able to come off the bench to play in both games, after being hit in the head by a pitch on Thursday. "We're very fortunate, and it's remarkable," manager Craig Counsell said of Broxton's quick return to action. "I'm glad it worked out that we were able to get him some at-bats but kind of keep him out of full-time action. Now he's back in there, ready to go." • Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was off to a slow start this season, but he rakes against the Brewers. In 207 plate appearances, he owns a .407/.469/.720 slash line with 12 home runs. His 1.188 OPS is Tulowitzki's best mark against any team. • Brewers starter Wily Peralta has not allowed a run in his last 14 regular-season innings dating to last year. As of Sunday, that was the sixth-longest scoreless streak for any Major League pitcher. In Peralta's first 13 starts of 2016, opponents had a 90.8 mph average exit velocity against him on batted balls, and he allowed 19 barrels. But in 11 starts since his August return from Triple-A, including a scoreless first outing of 2017, the hard-throwing righty has held hitters to an average exit velocity of 87.8 mph, with just nine barrels allowed. LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP* LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP* LETS GO BLUE JAYS *CLAP, CLAP* *CLAP, CLAP, CLAP*

Why not both... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

K-Rods been trashing me thus far.

No Donaldson...

f***... no Donaldson today fellas.

Geeze... a lot of MLB players out of that draft.

Holy s***, I had forgotten Correa and Buxton were from the same draft class, and a lot of people hated that the Stros took him over Buxton. These Tiger announcers just jogged my memory on that. Anyone know what year that was off the top of their head? NVM... 2012.

Talk to BTS he has a bunch of those guys.

An SP for holds?

I do this all the time.

Yes.

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Yeah, I just joined a bracket challenge on NHL.com to see, lol. Wow this whole format is crazy.

Wow... you switch Conferences, that's messed up. Thanks.

Shi Davidi ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The similarities between the calf tweak Josh Donaldson suffered at Tropicana Field over the weekend and the one he suffered there early last year are eerie, something that struck the Toronto Blue Jays third baseman. Last year, he hit a home run in the third inning and felt his calf (reported as the right one last year, but said to be the left during spring training) tighten up as he rounded the bases. In the seventh, he hit a weak chopper to the left side in the seventh but walked to first base on a ball he might have beaten out, and then turned straight for the dugout. On Sunday, he hit a home run in the first inning and felt his right calf tighten up a touch as he rounded the bases. In the sixth, he hit a grounder down the third-base line and charged hard to first before pulling up, walking back very gingerly to the dugout. Both games were the finale of a four-game set, and both times the Blue Jays headed home for their home opener afterwards. He ended up playing in it last year, hitting a grand slam in what finished as an 8-7 loss to Boston, and he sounded optimistic about being ready for Tuesday’s opener against the Milwaukee Brewers. “It’s a funny thing,” he says. “I don’t know if it was my right one last year, but [sunday] it was when I hit the homer in the first inning, when I hit first base and was pushing off that I kind of felt it a little bit then. Nothing extravagant by any means. “As the game went on, I was trying to leg out the ball down the line and it almost felt like a bit of a cramp. With my right calf, as cautious as we were in spring training, the situation, I thought it was a good idea to get off it for the rest of the day.” Donaldson missed most of spring training with a right calf strain, but the latest incident is thought to be unrelated. “This is was in the outside part of my calf,” he explains. “It sort of started to respond to some treatment that we were doing after, everything checked out to be in good shape. Day-to-day is what they’re telling me.” SLOW STARTS: At 1-5 out of the gate, the Blue Jays have matched their worst start through six games first set in 2004, but they’re only a game off the 2-4 pace they opened with last year. While last year issues with the bullpen were front and centre, the primary culprit so far is a lack of offence. The Blue Jays have only 20 runs so far for an average of 3.33 per contest, but have scored two or less in four of the six games. Collectively, they’ve posted a .201/.279/.297 slash line and their four home runs are second-last in the American League, one up on Boston, and their .576 OPS is better than only Seattle’s .535. “In spring training, you have guys playing in, out, in, out, you’re not really playing every day, you start getting into the mix of things, having to go from day to night, something you don’t really experience right away. Especially with some guys on our team, we do have an older lineup as far as position players are concerned, so we do our best to get everybody ready,” Donaldson says in trying to offer an explanation. “With that said, you don’t really go through what you’re getting into in the season until you’re here. I believe that will start changing, and I believe that our guys are going to bounce back sooner than later and I still feel very good about our team.” Struggles at the beginning of a season become magnified because there isn’t a body of work to counter them against. That in turn distorts the stats, something Marco Estrada warns against. “No one should pay attention to the numbers right now, I wouldn’t put anything into it, we’re six games in right now, it really doesn’t matter, this means nothing,” he says. “Obviously we want to win every game but we’re all still trying to get things going. I saw a lot of positive things out there and we’ve got a really good team, we’ve just got to put it together. It’s going to come. Going back home is going to make us feel a little bit better about ourselves and we’ll play a little bit better. We’ll get things going. We’re six games in, don’t buy too much into it right now.” Adds Troy Tulowitzki: “It was definitely tough, 1-5 is not the way you want to start, but good thing there’s 162 of these. It’s only six games, go back home in front of our great fans and get this thing rolling. We’ve got a good ball club, there’s no panic in here. We’re going to be just fine, I promise you that.” SIMMERING FEUD: There was an interesting bit of interplay at home plate in the third inning Sunday between Steve Souza Jr., and Russell Martin. The previous inning, the dugouts emptied after Tulowitzki criticized the Tampa Bay Rays outfielder for a late slide and before he stepped into the batter’s box, he decided to try and explain himself to the Blue Jays catcher. “Anytime something like that happens, I try and clear it up with him,” says Souza. “He’s usually very reasonable about dealing with it. He agreed. He was just trying to protect his player. He thought [the slide] was dangerous. I said listen, it was late, I didn’t know what was going on behind me, and we cleared the air. Hopefully we can move on from this one.” Martin was among the Blue Jays angered by Souza’s slide, which broke an unwritten baseball rule about sliding over top of the bag with legs up. Souza nearly clipped Tulowitzki’s right foot, which was off the bag, and then his left one, which was on it. Tulo on Souza's slide: Felt it was late, said something to protect future players “It was real close,” says Tulowitzki. “I like playing this game. If I’m going to get hurt, I don’t want it to be on something like that.” As Souza engaged in an animated discussion with Martin, Rays manager Kevin Cash started yelling at his right-fielder. “Our entire bench was like let’s go, this is the at-bat of the game right now, a really big at-bat for us,” says Cash. “We were just hoping Souza would let it go and focus on hitting the three-run homer.” That’s what Souza ended up doing, the decisive blow in a 7-2 win.

Heck of a game!

Nevermind... I'm dumn, lol.

It's bound to happen...

Was just going to post this, guy's on fire. Looks like he's starting to live up to that hype, after last year's breakout.

What's Walker thinking?

Hopefully he'll be okay, but it looks like a conky to me.

Walker just hit Posey in the head, he's coming out of the game, seemed like he didn't know where he was. 94 MPH... yeesh!