Red Sox starting pitcher John Lackey is 9-4 with a 4.40 ERA in 17 starts this season, with the team alternating wins and losses over his last four starts.\u00a0 The right-hander is an even 2-2 with a 4.34 ERA in seven road starts, issuing 23 walks and striking out 25 in 45.2 innings.\u00a0 He owns a 5.74 ERA in five day outings this season compared to a 3.86 ERA in 12 night starts.\u00a0 Lackey will make his second start of the season versus Toronto, winning at Fenway Park on May 10 despite allowing six runs over six innings.\u00a0 In 12 career outings versus the Blue Jays, he\u2019s tallied a 4-3 mark and 3.74 ERA.\u00a0 His 3.04 ERA in eight career starts at the Rogers Centre is third-best among starters since 2002 (min. 50 IP).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Toronto slipped under .500 with last night\u2019s defeat, as the club continues a six-day, six-game homestand.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ve just been kicking our butts – it\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d manager Cito Gaston said.\u00a0 He\u2019s referencing that the Jays have suffered seven straight defeats on home soil to their division rivals, which is the second-longest losing streak at home versus the Red Sox.\u00a0 In Friday\u2019s loss, Boston\u2019s 14 runs marked the most in one game against Toronto since the Jays lost 15-0 to the Orioles on August, 19, 2006.\u00a0 The club is 4-3 after allowing 10 or more runs this season (+70) and 12-14 over the last three years (-210).\u00a0 The total happens to be 7-19 O\/U in this spot over that time.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Blue Jays starting pitcher Brandon Morrow is 5-6 with a 4.69 ERA in 17 starts this season, but the club has dropped his last two games by a single run margin.\u00a0 Over that two-game span, he has allowed 10 runs (eight earned) and 16 hits over 12 innings.\u00a0 The right-hander is a rock solid 5-1 with a 2.82 ERA in eight home starts, issuing just 13 free passes and fanning an impressive 49 in 51 innings of work.\u00a0 Morrow stands at 1-1 with a 4.69 ERA in even daytime starts.\u00a0 He will be making his 11th career appearance (third start) against the Red Sox, going 0-1 with a 6.48 ERA, with the loss coming on May 10 at Fenway Park against Lackey.\u00a0 It was the shortest outing of the season for Morrow, allowing six runs and six hits while walking six in just 1.2 frames.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bettors must respect the home team\u2019s 8-5 mark this season at home with a money line of -100 to -125 (+260) and 39-21 record in this spot the last three years (+1,580).\u00a0 Toronto also holds the daytime advantage in posting a 18-15 mark in 2010 thus far (+440).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Blue Jays look to snap a long losing streak against today’s opponent at the Rogers Centre. Boston Red Sox at Toronto Blue Jays Boston continues a seven-day, six-game road trip with the second of three games, after clobbering the Toronto Blue Jays 14-3 at the Rogers Centre.\u00a0 The team now comes in carrying a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[69,1747,129,1748,223],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brandon-morrow","tag-john-lackey","tag-rogers-centre","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brandon-morrow-blue-jays-88-150x150.jpg\")
Boston continues a seven-day, six-game road trip with the second of three games, after clobbering the Toronto Blue Jays 14-3 at the Rogers Centre.\u00a0 The team now comes in carrying a 6-1 series advantage, after compiling an 11-7 series win in 2009.\u00a0 The Red Sox have now won seven straight games at the venue and broke a four-game losing streak in which the team scored just 12 runs.\u00a0 \u201cWe kind of needed that,\u201d said manager Terry Francona.\u00a0 At 50-36, the club is tied for the fourth-best record in baseball, behind only the Yankees, Rays and Braves.\u00a0 The Red Sox hope to improve upon their 7-12 daytime record this year (-870), as the team is 7-3 on artificial turf (+480).\u00a0 The team hasn\u2019t always been successful on the face stuff, going 25-33 the last three years (-880).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n