GDB 136.0: Toronto Blue Jays seek series crucial win over Colorado Rockies in penultimate game

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By Zach Laing
Sep 2, 2023, 17:53 EDT
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Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain Way
Couldn’t get much higher
Out to pasture
Think it’s safe to say
Time to open fire
Rocky Mountain Way
Couldn’t get much higher
Out to pasture
Think it’s safe to say
Time to open fire
And we don’t need the ladies
Crying ’cause the story’s sad
Crying ’cause the story’s sad
‘Cause the Rocky Mountain Way
Is better than the way we had
Is better than the way we had
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I love me some Joe Walsh, and I love me some baseball in Colorado.
A day after the Jays ran up the score against the Rockies, they’ll be back looking to do the same again tonight.
The Jays will send Yusei Kikcuhi to the mound across from Ty Blach, a 32-year-old journeyman lefty who has posted a 3.94 ERA this season in seven starts and 14 games. With a 128 ERA+, Blach will be the toughest pitcher the Jays face this weekend, and his ERA actually is better at home sitting at 3.72.
He, however, has issues in lefty-lefty matchups, so Daulton Varsho and Kevin Kiermaier — both of whom have excelled in such spots this year — will be looked to at the bottom of the order to keep the order rolling.
First pitch: 8:10 p.m EST — Sportsnet, Sportsnet 650.
Toronto Blue Jays: 74-61, 9.5 GB, 19 E#, 1.5 WCGB, +68 DIFF.
Colorado Rockies: 49-85, 34.0 GB, E E#, 20.5 WCGB, -201 DIFF.
Moneyline: TOR -200; COL +170.
*Odds at the time of publishing. Odds subject to change.
Starting pitchers:
TOR: Yusei Kikuchi LHP – 9-4, 26 GS, 139.0 IP. 3.63 ERA, 118 ERA+, 4.22 FIP, 1.230 WHIP, 2.5 BB/9, 9.5 SO/9.
COL: Ty Blach LHP – 1-1, 7 GS, 48.0 IP. 3.94 ERA, 128 ERA+, 4.68 FIP, 1.417 WHIP, 2.3 BB/9, 4.9 SO/9.
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Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist. He can be followed on Twitter at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@oilersnation.com.
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