AL East
Team W L Pct. GB
New York 88 63 .583—
Baltimore87 64 .576 1
Tampa Bay 82 70 .539 6½
Boston 68 85 .444 21
Toronto 66 84 .44021½
AL race for wild cards
Team W L Pct. GB
Baltimore 87 64 .576—
Oakland 85 66 .563—
Los Angeles 8369 .54621/2
Tampa Bay 82 70 .539 3½
Detroit 80 70 .533 4½
Top two wild cards make postseason; GB is games behind second wild card
Rays vs. Blue Jays
When/where: 1:40 today; Tropicana Field
TV/radio: Sun Sports; 970-AM, 680-AM (Spanish)
Tickets: $12-$255, available at Tropicana Field box office, Ticketmaster, raysbaseball.com, team Tampa store; $3 surcharge within 5 hours of game time.
Promotion: Matt Joyce bobblehead to the first 10,000 kids 14 and under
Probable pitchers:
Rays: RH Jeremy Hellickson (8-10, 3.31)
BLUE JAYS RH Chad Jenkins (0-1, 4.98)
On Hellickson: Is winless in his past five starts and hasn't lasted longer than six innings in any of them. Is 2-2, 3.41 in five career starts against the Blue Jays.
On Jenkins: Is making his first big-league start, having appeared 10 times out of the bullpen since his August callup.
Key matchups
Rays vs. Jenkins
Evan Longoria 2-for-4
Carlos Peña 2-for-3, HR
Ben Zobrist 1-for-3
Jays vs. Hellickson
E. Encarnacion 5-for-14, HR
J.P. Arencibia 4-for-11
Adam Lind 4-for-7
On deck
Monday: Off
Tuesday: at Red Sox, 7:10, Sun Sports. Rays — David Price (18-5, 2.58); Red Sox — Clay Buchholz (11-6, 4.16)
Number of the day
8
Home runs for C Jose Molina this season, a career high.
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