Toronto Blue Jays vs. San Francisco Giants: Odds, Prediction
The Blue Jays offence has gone quiet of late as they continue a West Coast trip on Monday night by visiting a bad San Francisco Giants club. Behind Kevin Guasman, Toronto is a slight favourite on the MLB odds with a total of 7.5 runs.
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The Giants play in one of nicest venues in baseball at pitcher-friendly Oracle Park and usually come close to selling out most games just for the views and ambiance. Because the team itself is garbage at 37-52 and barely ahead of wretched Colorado to avoid the NL West cellar.
President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey was once one of the great players in Giants history and should be a first-ballot entry in the National Baseball Hall of Fame next year. The primary catcher won three World Series titles with the franchise, an NL MVP and Rookie of the Year and earned seven All-Star selections. The point being that the Giants faithful have largely given Posey the benefit of the doubt since moving into that role of running the front office.
But he might have made a massive error this past offseason by hiring University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello as the Giants’ new manager. Notable because it marked the first time an MLB team has hired a manager directly from a college program without any experience as a professional coach. It absolutely has not worked as Vitello looks completely overwhelmed. San Francisco is absolutely a seller ahead of the trade deadline. Lefty pitcher Robbie Ray, who won the 2021 AL Cy Young with Toronto, is almost surely among those gone. It appears the Jays will miss him as he pitched Saturday.
Toronto swept three home games in the 2025 series and went 2-1 in its last visit to San Francisco in 2024.
Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto opened this West Coast trip with a 2-0 win in Seattle on Friday night … and then didn’t cross the plate the rest of the weekend in losing by a combined score of 15-0 on Saturday and Sunday. The team managed only three hits Sunday. The Jays were shut out in 26 of the 27 innings.
George Springer missed both Saturday and Sunday after being placed on the family medical emergency list. Not clear if he will play Monday but is expected to join the team at some point in San Francisco.
Right-hander Kevin Guasman (4-7, 4.19 ERA), who pitched for the Giants from 2020-21, takes the hill Monday. He hasn’t personally won since May 22 at home vs. Pittsburgh, and the Jays have dropped his past four as a team.
After being shelled in back-to-back outings, Gausman was a lot better last Tuesday in allowing one run over five at home vs. the Mets but got no run support as the Jays were blanked. Gausman is 1-2 with a 3.13 ERA in four career starts against his former club. Rafael Devers, another Giants trade candidate, hits him well at 11-for-33 with seven doubles and a homer. The Jays are 6-3 in their past nine road games.
San Francisco Giants
This starts a seven-game homestand for the Giants entering the break, and they come off a 2-4 road trip to Atlanta and Colorado. The pitching staff allowed 26 combined runs in three-game set at Coors Field over the weekend.
San Francisco hit four homers Sunday but reliever Dylan Smith surrendered a go-ahead, three-run blast in the bottom of the eighth to blow it. Devers now has 23 career multi-homer games and his 18 lead the club this year. But the team would love to get off his big contract so if it can find a taker, Devers will be traded.
The Giants have three regulars on the injured list in catcher Daniel Susac, third baseman Matt Chapman and outfielder Harrison Bader.
Righty Landon Roupp (5-8, 4.55 ERA) starts on the mound Monday. The 27-year-old’s home and road splits are equally mediocre and San Francisco has lost his past 11 trips to the hill – that has tied a franchise record. His last win came on April 26. In April. Roupp was a stud at 5-1 with a 2.55 ERA, but it has all gone downhill since.
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