Rays @ Blue Jays

Who will WIN this matchup?

Tampa Bay Rays (79-62)

@ Toronto Blue Jays (80-62)

Starting Pitchers:

Rasmussen (TB): 10-4; 2.57 ERA

Stripling (TOR) 7-4; 3.03 ERA

Current odds:

Tampa Bay Rays: (-108)

Toronto Blue Jays: (-111)

• The starting line-up for Tampa Bay is as follows:

• The starting line-up for Toronto is as follows:

• The Toronto Blue Jays will attempt to clinch their five-game set with the visiting Tampa Bay Rays during the fourth contest on Wednesday night. The teams split a day-night doubleheader Tuesday with the Rays taking the opener 4-2 and the Blue Jays winning the second game 7-2. Toronto captured the series opener 3-2 on Monday.

• The Blue Jays (80-62) hold the top American League wild-card position, a half-game ahead of both the Rays (79-62) and the Seattle Mariners (79-62).

• The Rays lead the season series with the Blue Jays 7-6, a key footnote as head-to-head results will be the first tiebreaker if the teams end up with the same record.

• Stripling is 0-3 with a 4.13 ERA in eight career games (three starts) against Tampa Bay. He lost his lone appearance against the Rays this year after yielding four runs (three earned) on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings on July 3.

• Rasmussen is 1-1 with a 1.59 ERA in six career outings (five starts) against the Blue Jays, including 1-0 with a 0.93 ERA in two starts at Toronto. He last faced the Blue Jays on Aug. 2 at St. Petersburg, Fla., taking the loss despite allowing only one run on six hits in six innings.

• The Rays put Brandon Lowe on the injured list between games Tuesday because of back discomfort. The second baseman missed two months earlier this season due to a stress reaction in his back, and more recently he was sidelined because of an elbow/triceps ailment.

• Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Aranda led off the seventh inning in Game 2 on Tuesday with his first career major league homer. He extended his hitting streak to six games, a span in which he is 6-for-15 (.400) with two doubles, a homer and two RBIs.

• Rays right-hander Kevin Herget entered Game 2 with one out in the seventh inning to make his major league debut. He allowed two runs in 1 2/3 innings.

• George Springer hit a two-run home run for Toronto earlier in the seventh inning of Game 2. It was his 20th of the season and his first since Aug. 28, a span of 15 games.

• Rays right-hander Yonny Chirinos, making his first start and second outing after an absence of more than two years while undergoing Tommy John surgery, pitched four scoreless innings in Game 2.

• Ji-Man Choi homered off Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah in the third inning of Game 2, ending a six-game homerless streak for the Rays. It was his first long ball since Aug. 26.