Toronto at Texas

A hot team against a cold one, and the hot team is the dog! Toronto has been surprising everyone, 6-1 against a team with a winning record. Toronto’s pitching staff has dominated Texas this season, holding the Rangers to one or zero runs in four of the six meetings.   It helps in a park like this to have a pitcher who can keep the ball down or one who doesn't walk many batters, and the Blue Jays have both in Chien-Ming Wang, who had a 2.33 ERA through nine minor-league starts before being called up. Toronto may be in last place, but the offense has caught fire, tenth in baseball in runs scored, ninth in slugging. The Blue Jays are 6-0 in their last six games as an underdog, and 4-0 in their last four road games. Texas lefty Derek Holland is off a bad outing, his shortest outing of the season. He lost 5-2 at home to Cleveland giving up four runs and nine hits over 4 1/3 innings. The Rangers are 0-5 in their last five games as a home favorite, and the Blue Jays are 5-1 in the last six meetings with Texas. Play the Blue Jays.