The Yankees won an easy one against the Orioles on Thursday, though they find themselves in a position where they’ll take any help they can get from the outside. Luckily for them, there was plenty of opportunity for that around the American League, with both the Jays and Red Sox in action. Let’s take a look at what went down on Thursday.

Tampa Bay Rays (75-78) 4, Toronto Blue Jays (89-64) 0

For a second consecutive day, the Blue Jay bats were kept remarkably quiet by the Tampa Bay pithing staff, as Shane Baz and company shut out Toronto on Thursday.

The Rays took a commanding lead early on in this one, as they put up three unanswered runs in their half of the second. A Chandler Simpson single plated a pair, before the same from Brandon Lowe put them up by three. In the sixth inning, Car

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