Red Sox vs Blue Jays

We go over how to watch Monday 's game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays and make some picks.

The Red Sox shortstop has found some success against Gausman in his career, hitting .348 with two doubles and a home run against him in 46 at-bats. Although the Jays and Sox have been trending in opposite directions in recent weeks, the jump from AAA to MLB for Seabold gives Toronto an advantage in this one. The Jays also have a season-series lead of 5-2 over Boston this season. The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays square off on Monday with first pitch set for 7:07 p.m. EST. The game takes place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario and will be available on local TV, on MLB Network outside the two markets, or through an MLB.tv subscription. Still, Seabold will have to have the weight of that on his shoulders against a solid Jays lineup. Just 1.5 games separate the second-place Red Sox from two other teams, the Tampa Bay Rays and the Blue Jays. Though things haven’t been great for the Blue Birds as of late, losing four of their last six and seven of their last 10 overall games.

The pregame narrative: Toronto leans on the suddenly reliable Ross Stripling while Boston counters with Michael Wacha, who shut down the Blue Jays with six ...

There’s also a strong chance the favoured Blue Jays only come to bat eight times in this game, which could be the difference here. If Wacha stumbles at all, this shouldn’t be a tough bar to clear. We like Wacha to be the starter to show his true colours in this game. The 32-year-old hasn’t become an ace overnight, but his great results are backed by substantive changes. Stripling, on the other hand, has come by his results more honestly. Both Stripling and Wacha put up lacklustre results in 2020 and 2021 before impressing this season.

TORONTO -- — Toronto's Kevin Gausman gave the Red Sox a rough time as Boston got back to playing its biggest foes in the AL East.

“I feel like he gets stronger as the game goes on against us,” Dalbec said. Stripling has a 6.52 ERA in seven career games against Boston. “If you expand with him, you’re going to have nights like this.” “That’s an awesome seven shutout innings from him.” “It’s going to be a grind. We’re going to be banging heads for the rest of the season.” Making his first start of the season and the second of his big league career, Red Sox right-hander Connor Seabold (0-1) allowed seven runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. “Every team in this division can pitch, every team in this division can hit the ball out of the ballpark.” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “He pounds the strike zone early on and then he expands,” Cora said. Gausman is 2-0 with a 0.43 ERA in three starts against the Red Sox this season. Guerrero hit a two-run home run, his 18th of the season, Matt Chapman also hit a two-run blast and George Springer added a solo shot as Toronto improved to 6-2 against Boston. “The first game of the homestand you’re trying to set the tone, especially as the starter,” Gausman said

The Blue Jays have their top three starters facing the Red Sox to begin the week, but what are they going to do over 4 games in 3 days against the Rays?

Hatch hasn’t had the best season in Buffalo so far, but he has the experience and the stuff to get batters out at the highest level. While I think the Blue Jays would likely prefer to move Kikuchi out of the rotation right away, this week’s schedule isn’t very well set up to do that. To me the first guy up would be Max Castillo, who threw four scoreless innings in relief on the weekend. As for Berrios, he had another disastrous outing on Sunday, which has happened to him far too many times already this year for someone who was expected to be a top of the rotation arm. That’s a question that has yet to be answered, but for the time being Charlie Montoyo and the coaching staff can rest a little more comfortably, at least compared to what later in the week might bring. Stripling took over for the injured Hyun Jin Ryu, who is lost for the season after Tommy John surgery, and thankfully he’s even outperformed the veteran prior to his injury.