Today at 12:37 p.m. the Toronto Blue Jays (54-63) will try to hold off the Oakland Athletics (66-50) and salvage a split in the two squads' four-game series. The game can be live streamed here, while Blue Jays fans can tune in to SN590 to hear the radio broadcast. A's fans can turn their dials to 95.7 The Game to listen to the action.
The Blue Jays will send J.A. Happ (2-2, 5.84) to the hill, who made his first start since taking a Desmond Jennings line drive off the side of the head on May 7th, last week against the Boston Red Sox. Happ struggled in that outing, lasting just four innings and giving up six earned runs while walking three batters and striking out just two.
Facing Oakland doesn't figure to be any easier, especially with Josh Reddick hitting his hottest stretch of the 2013 campaign. In the first two games of this series Reddick went bonkers, swatting five home runs and driving in eight RBI.
Still, Happ is just excited to be out on the field again. "It's been a long road to get back but at the same time I felt ready to help us win," he said.
Opposing Happ will be Daniel Straily (6-6, 4.81 ERA). Straily was expected to be a significant contributor to Oakland's rotation this season, but has been wildly inconsistent and shuttled back and forth between The Show and Triple A in 2013.
Straily has made 18 starts this year; in five of those outings he lasted just five innings or fewer while surrendering four or more runs. The A's may need Reddick to continue slugging in the event that bad Straily arrives at Rogers Centre.
No matter what Straily pitches like the A's always feel as if they've got a shot to win. Following a narrow victory on Sunday that was the 700th of manager Bob Melvin's career, he said, "We find a way to win the game, but it wasn't pretty."
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