Today at 3:35 p.m. ET, the Toronto Blue Jays (48-44) and Los Angeles Angels (52-37) play the rubber match of their three-game set live from Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The game can be live streamed for free here. Toronto fans can hear all of the action on SN590 while Los Angeles fans can do the same on KLAA 830.
Toronto continues a seven-game road trip it is 1-5 on thus far while Los Angeles closes out a seven-game homestand it is currently 5-1 on. The Angels won the opening game of this series 5-2 on Monday while the Blue Jays snapped their counter parts five-game winning streak and their own five-game skid with a 4-0 win on Tuesday.
Toronto enters play in second place in the American League East, 2.5 games behind the division-leading Baltimore Orioles while Los Angeles is in second place in the AL West, 4.5 games behind the first place Oakland Athletics.
Marcus Stroman (4-2, 3.44 ERA) mans the mound for the Blue Jays while the Angels counter with C.J. Wilson, who is 8-6 with a 4.23 ERA.
Los Angeles hopes tthat Wilson will continue to play solid at home as his splits at Angel Stadium are favorable over his numbers on the road, though he has struggled at home is last couple of starts.
"He needs to get into good zones with all his pitches and get more quality strikes earlier in the count than he has been," said Angels manager Mike Scioscia, according to MLB.com. "If he does that, I think you're going to see him get back into that mode of getting ahead and putting hitters away the way that he does when he's very successful."
Stroman, his rookie counterpart, is coming off of an outing where he limited the Oakland Athletics to three hits in seven scoreless innings.
"I feel comfortable. I feel like I've gotten into a pretty good groove," Stroman said per MLB.com. "Just trying to help the team win each and every start up here."
Despite being without Edwin Encarnacion, the Blue Jays have had a formidable offense as we reach the halfway point of the MLB season. Toronto outfielder Jose Bautista has a .293 batting average with 17 homers and 52 RBI thus far this season and leads the MLB with 60 walks and the AL with a .412 on-base percentage.
Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera has also been a major contributor and is hitting a team-best .301 with 11 long balls and 44 RBI and is second in the AL with 113 hits.
Los Angeles' offense has also been flanked by an outfielder as Mike Trout is having another dominant year. Trout is first in the AL in OPS (.992), second in on-base percentage (.397), third in total bases (192) and slugging percentage (.594) tied for third in runs (59), fourth in walks (52) and fifth in homers (20) and RBI (64) this season. He also leads the Angels with a .303 batting average.
The Blue Jays and Angels close out their three-game set with the rubber match this afternoon at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
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