ESPN.com · Oct 17, 2016
Bautista to bat leadoff as Jays look for spark
TORONTO -- Jose Bautista is batting leadoff as the Toronto Blue Jays try to snap out of their offensive funk in the AL Championship Series.
Toronto scored one run over the first two games and trails Cleveland 2-0 in the series heading into Game 3. Ezequiel Carrera led off for the Blue Jays in their previous four games.
The Indians, via Twitter, seized on Jose Bautista's seeming implication that the Blue Jays' struggling offense in the ALCS wasn't helped by "circumstances" created by the umpires' strike zones.
He is hitting eighth Monday.
Devon Travis, who hit leadoff for Toronto's first two games of the postseason, is out for the year with a knee injury.