The limping Jays head into Baltimore with both teams barely alive in the wild card race. The Jays go into this series hoping for three innings from Trey Yesavage and five from Max Scherzer. That leaves 19 innings for the bullpen. So then is it pray for rain? And there is some rain in the forecast for all three days. The league will do its best to make sure all three games get played, be it late into the night or a doubleheader.

The minor league season ended with Buffalo getting blown out by Rochester. It looked good for a while, the Bisons led 5-1 after four innings. But they lost the next five by 14-3.

Buffalo took another one on the chin on Saturday. Grant Rogers is ending the season in a bad place. His ERA was in the 4's in April, May and June. It bumped up to six in July, eight in August and double figures in September.

Buffalo 7 Rochester 1

The Jays are now two games back with nine to play. Do they need to go 7-2, or would 6-3 do it? How about 8-1? Winning the series in Texas would mean there is only one team ahead of the Jays. And the Jays have Dylan Cease and Jose Soriano going in game sone and two. The Rangers have Jacob De Grom in game three so it is vital that the Jays win the first two games.

Buffalo played a day game on Thursday so as not to conflict with the Bills playing at home on Thursday night football. They lost 3-1.

Two of Buffalo's newer pitchers had a bad day. Josh Stephen and Josh Klein, who both came over at the trade deadline, combined to give up eight runs and the Bisons lost by eight.

Buffalo held on for a victory and that means a winning Tuesday on the farm.

The Tigers come into Toronto with just 12 Blue Jay games remaining. The Jays find themselves one game out of the wildcard and with the Guardians playing the White Sox starting today, one of the teams ahead of the Jays has to lose over the next three days. The Tigers are 5.5 games behind which means they probably need to win 11 or 12 of their last 13 games.

Buffalo and New Hampshire combined to lose by a score of 19-4.

Vancouver 9 Eugene 8 Final/12

Harrisburg 1 New Hampshire 2 Final/10

Charlotte 2 Buffalo 1

We are back to a series versus a wild card competitor. The Orioles are handing on by their fingernails, they will feel the need to win this series, just as the Jays need to to keep pace with Cleveland. Friday night sees a seniors matchup, the crime dog returns to face Mad Max. The Jays have a decision to make regarding the rest of the series. Do they move up Dylan Cease and Jose Soriano or leave the day as a bullpen day. Cease looked tired in his last start, will that influence the decision? All will likely be revealed by the manager at around 4.30 pm.

Buffalo used 17 hits to score eleven runs and record a big win. On the other hand New Hampshire were shutout. Vancouver had a travel day before their playoffs resume on Friday.

Vancouver had to go to extra innings but they won to take a 2-0 lead back to Eugene in their playoff series. Elsewhere Rudy Martin homered twice but it wasn't enough for Buffalo to win. New Hampshire were rained out.

Buffalo and New Hampshire were nearly shutout to guarantee another losing Tuesday on the farm. However, the good news was Vancouver pulled off a one-run victory in Game 1 of the Northwest League Championship Series.


Austin Smith steps on second base after hitting a grand slam for Vancouver on Tuesday.