The Toronto Blue Jays will try to rebound from Thursday’s 8-7 loss to the Boston Red Sox when they open a three-game weekend series against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday as -120 favourites on the MLB odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Toronto blew an early 6-1 lead in Thursday’s defeat as a +115 underdog, but maintains a respectable 5-3 record in its last eight home contests going into Friday night’s Orioles vs. Blue Jays betting matchup at Rogers Centre.
The Blue Jays have struggled with consistency in recent outings despite regularly generating offence. The team has racked up 6.75 runs per game over its past 12 contests, but with opponents tallying 71 total runs during that stretch Toronto has been forced to settle for a middling 6-6 record. However, the OVER has regularly paid out in totals betting, going 16-5-1 in Toronto’s past 22 contests.
The Orioles arrive in Toronto as +110 underdogs in Friday’s contest after dropping two of three in Tampa Bay to open their current six-game road trip. Baltimore tallied a 9-6 victory over the Rays as a +185 wager in Wednesday’s series finale to avoid the sweep, but the Orioles have been dismal road performers of late, recording just seven total wins in 31 dates away from Camden Yards since April 26.
Baltimore has also come up short in 12 straight road series since the first week of the regular season. The Orioles’ most recent road series win came in Toronto at the beginning of April, when they posted victories in two games during a three-game set, with each victory coming by a single run.
The Orioles returned to their familiar struggles against Toronto when the Blue Jays visited in mid-June. The Blue Jays took two of three from the AL East basement-dwellers, and have now posted wins in 19 of 28 meetings with the Orioles since September 2017, according to the OddsShark MLB Database.
The Blue Jays will need a strong outing out of Aaron Sanchez, who is expected to get the call in Friday’s series opener. The right-hander is coming off the worst month of his MLB career in June, amassing a bloated 12.00 ERA in 27 innings of work over six starts. Sanchez has surrendered 27 total earned runs over his past four outings.
However, Sanchez has been steady against the Orioles, limiting them to five total earned runs in 18.1 innings over his past three starts against them, but he earned the win in just one of those contests.
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