SteemSports: Texas Rangers @ Toronto Blue Jays - Win or Go Home Situation For the Texas Rangers! (AL Division Series)
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With the Rangers already down 0-2 in the series, if they lose on Sunday they are eliminated from the Playoffs! On the other hand, the Blue Jays, are off to a super HOT start and obviously if they win on Sunday they get the sweep and get one step closer to playing in the World Series!
Note: This game will be played Saturday evening on TBS at:
4:40 PST (Pacific Time Zone)
6:40 CT (Central Time Zone)
7:40 EST (Eastern Time Zone)
Pitching Matchup for Game 3
Blue Jays: One of the two losses this season by RHP Aaron Sanchez, the AL ERA leader at 3.00, was to Texas. He gave up six runs, matching his season high, and was the loser in that May 15 game with the bench-clearing brawl after Toronto star Jose Bautista was punched by Rougned Odor.
Rangers: RHP Colby Lewis is 4-1 with a 2.38 ERA in nine career postseason games (eight starts) for Texas. In 2010, he won the AL Championship Series clincher to get the Rangers to their first World Series, and beat San Francisco in Game 3 for their only victory in that series.
Toronto Blue Jays
The Blue Jays advanced to the American League Division Series after the power-housed, Edwin Encarnacion, hit a 3 run walk off ”homer” in the bottom of the 11th inning in the AL Wildcard Game! The ”Jays” brought the Wildcard hot streak into the first two games in the Division Series.
Winning the first DS Game with a whopping score of 10-1, here is the Blue Jays box score:
As you can see, Josh Donaldson (3B), had one helluva game alongside Troy Tulowitzki (SS) and Jose Bautista (OF)!
In the second game on Friday, the Blue Jays brought home another ”W”! This one was much closer, being the score settled at 5-3. But, of course always remember that a win is a win.
Here is the Blue Jays box score for Game 2 of the DS:
In this game, Edwin (1B), Tulowitzki (SS), Pillar (OF), and Carrera (OF) all hit home runs! This is absolutely nuts! I have never seen so many home runs in a playoff game in my life! With this momentum, I really don’t see how the Blue Jays can lose!
Please Note: There is no injuries worth mentioning for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Texas Rangers
The Rangers are in a win or go home situation. In this game, they will be playing with everything they got up their sleeves. Texas will be relying on Colby Lewis to have a stellar performance and Colby must rely on the hitters to back up his performance.
Going up against the AL’s ERA Leader, the Rangers must find a way to get hits and home runs off of him. The Rangers are homer-less in the postseason thus far, they hope to break that streak on Sunday. With many power hitters on the team including: Odor (2B), Beltre (3B), Desmond (OF), and Moreland (1B) all expected to start on Sunday, they have to break out of their slump at some time and will it be on Sunday versus Aaron Sanchez?
Please Note: There is no injuries worth mentioning for the Texas Rangers.
Now it’s in your hands to decide...
Will you be choosing the Toronto Blue Jays who are on the verge of sweeping the Rangers?
Or
Will you be choosing the Texas Rangers who need the win to stay alive and will be putting up a great fight?
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The Blue Jays Got It ;)
Agreed. Or I might think you were just saying that so everyone bet on them then you bet on the Rangers! hahahahahaha
Damn I keep forgetting to tone down my voting power on the comment lmao, good thing I'm not a whale.
Also I've been using steem sports to promote on Facebook, this is such a universal topic among first worlders, should help draw some more users in.
Awesome stuff and Go Jays, it hasn't looked good for Texas so far.
Excellent stuff, keep sharing! Love the support!
Oh I sure diddily doodily will.
Just out of curiousity will you be covering hockey steem sports as well? I'd love to hope in and vote on that. I'm part of the steemit hockey draft that took place so basically anything hockey related count me in.
Bookmakers are for Toronto (www.oddschecker.com/baseball/mlb/texas-rangers-toronto-blue-jays/series-winner), so I'm also for Torronto :)
Go Canada!
Picking the Blue Jays just because ;)
Toronto win!!
Go Jays Go!
Go Texas Rangers! :)
(I voted for them, just because of the name, don´t only follow my vote blindly guys. ^^)
Rangers are my home team but I don't think they are gonna win.
Go STEEMSPORTS!
I have UPvoted EVERY single post since I found out about it!
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Gonna give me insider trading secrets?!?!?!
GO BLUE JAYS!
These contests are great! I'm glad I found them. I will definitely keep coming back.
Gotta bet against Colby Lewis lol.
dang let me enter this :)
Im Canadian! And a big hockey fan! BUT i dont watch baseball! Eigther way, i got to go with : The Toronto Blue Jays! ⚾
Blue Jays win
A betting man says Jays win in four.. A guy from Toronto(me) - says Sanchez is arguably Torontos best pitcher - with 50k fans and a huge payroll they control their playoff destiny!
I just try to be positive on and for platform. My English for now is not good enough. And I really don't care about Blue jays or baseball. Sorry. I just want to spreed some cent to other people on steemit with upvoting and betting to.
Ive wrote 2 messages if you look back , stateing that i bet on the blue jays to win well ahead of time! I also upvoted the main blog and reblogged your post at the same time! But i didnt get paid out for winning, why not? Its not a big deal but after3 times now ive asked why i wasnt paid now im wondering why no one has replied to my messages! You can see below i asked about twice earlier ! Please at least explain ! I am no longer betting on games on your site. Thanks