Gausman home start rated in the green

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: The midpoint of May is a short-slate Thursday. Just six games are on the schedule. Four of those are daytime contests. But what has been a rainy week so is looking like clear sailing for this day: no weather issues.

 

Notable Starts:

Kevin Gausman draws a Thursday home start against the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays scored 11 runs in the series opener Tuesday but still own a mere .609 OPS since April 25. Gausman's recent indicators have been better than his surface results, and he's making just his fourth start at home where so far he has been terrific. Still notable at this time of the year is the idea of batters' and pitchers' strength of schedule. Toronto hurlers have faced a much tougher collection of...

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