The Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins will play Tuesday at loanDepot Park. First pitch is scheduled for 6:40 p.m. ET.
Toronto (39-34 SU and 32-41 RL) is starting lefty Yusei Kikuchi. The 32-year-old is 6-2 with a 4.31 ERA and a 1.37 WHIP in his 14 outings this season.
Miami (41-31 SU and 35-37 RL) is countering with righty Eury Pérez. The 20-year-old is 4-1 with a 1.80 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP in seven starts.
Toronto dropped two of three to Texas this weekend, its third straight series loss. The Blue Jays are only 1.5 games ahead of the last-place Red Sox in the AL East standings.
Toronto scores 4.52 runs per game (12th) and hits .263 (4th) with a .750 OPS (9th). It's hit 83 long balls (13th) and stolen 58 bases (8th) this year. The Blue Jays pitching staff sports a 3.99 ERA (11th) and a 1.28 WHIP (15th) with 34 quality starts.
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Kikuchi will start for the visitors on Tuesday. In his last start, he gave up two runs on six hits with seven strikeouts in 4.2 innings versus Baltimore. He's held nine opponents to two or fewer runs, including his last four. The fifth-year pro sports a 71:23 K:BB ratio this season.