Rays visit Blue Jays to open crucial 5-game series

Washington, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) Tampa Bay Rays (78-60, second in the AL East) and the Toronto Blue Jays (78-61, third in the AL east) will play on Monday crucial five-game series, aspiring to reach postseason.

September 12, 2022
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Both teams are among qualifiers for the wild card, a mini-series the Baltimore Orioles (73-67) hope to reach. Baltimore will have to play two games vs Washington Nationals and could benefit from alternating Rays-Jays losses to close gap.

On Sunday, Dominican Albert Pujols continued to add to his baseball legend by becoming the fourth all-time leading home run hitter in the Majors.

Pujols hit a two-run homer in the top of the 9th inning to put St. Louis Cardinals up 3-2 over Pittsburgh Pirates, bringing his career HRs to 697.

The Dominican slugger surpassed Alex Rodriguez (696) and is now ranking 4th homer in MLB history, preceded by Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714).

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