(Sports Network) - The Texas Rangers pay a visit to Rogers Centre tonight to open a three-game set with the Toronto Blue Jays, in what is the first of seven meetings over the next 10 days between the two teams. The Rangers entered the day with a half-game lead over Oakland in the AL West. They dropped two out of three in Boston after falling in Thursdays series finale, 6-3. Texas coughed up a 3-0 lead and eventually lost on David Ortizs three-run, walkoff home run. Starter Derek Holland pitched six innings and gave up two runs. Hot-hitting Adrian Beltre will likely fill the designated hitter slot for this series, given Torontos artificial surface and the third basemans tender left hamstring. Beltre, who went 3-for-4 with a home run on Thursday, is hitting at a .435 clip with four home runs and eight RBIs during an 11-game hitting streak. Manager Ron Washington could turn to utility infielder Leury Garcia to man the hot corner for the series. "One thing about Leury is he can catch the ball," Washington said. "You hit it to him, hell catch the ball ... and he will throw it. It may end up in the stands, but hell throw it." This marks the Blue Jays only pit stop at Rogers Centre in a stretch that will see them play 11 of 14 on the road. After suffering a two-game sweep in San Diego over the weekend, they traveled to San Francisco and took two out of three from the Giants. "It seems like weve been gone a couple of weeks," manager John Gibbons said after Wednesdays 4-0 victory. "With an off-day (Thursday), itll be big. The guys can use it, especially since were coming off the West Coast." R.A. Dickey was the key figure in Wednesdays win, as he allowed only two hits and came two outs short of his first shutout with the Blue Jays. Torontos rotation has been hit hard by injuries. Esmil Rogers will move from the bullpen to start Fridays series opener. His first start since 2011 came on May 29 against Atlanta, and he held the Braves scoreless in 3 1/3 innings. The Blue Jays hope Rogers can pitch deeper into the game this time around. Meanwhile, Rangers rookie starter Nick Tepesch will hope for some more run support than he has gotten of late. The right-hander is winless over his last three starts despite a 2.12 ERA in that span, as the offense has totaled only five runs. Against Kansas City on Saturday, Tepesch gave up just one unearned run in 6 1/3 innings and did not issue a walk. This marks the first meeting of the season between these two teams, although they will be plenty familiar with one another after the next 10 days. Texas won two of three in its last visit to Toronto from Aug. 17-19. Jonathan Ogden Jersey . The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. 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The careers of two Mornington winners are set to head in different directions.Lindsay Park has Group One aspirations for Wednesdays maiden winner Domesticated while Lock And Loaded, who landed his second successive win at the beachside track, is likely to do his future racing in Malaysia.Ben Hayes, who trains in partnership with his father David and cousin Tom Dabernig, says the stable is eyeing the Adelaide carnival late in the autumn with Domesticated.The filly was having her third career start when successful in the 1500m Main Street Mornington Plate on Wednesday.Dads pretty bullish about her. He thinks the further she gets the better, Hayes said.The Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville and the SA Fillies Classic (2500m) next May are likely target races for the filly..The way she won today was impressive and well find a race for her in about three weeks time, Hayes said.Well give her another run and then a little freshen-up and get her ready for the autumn.Lock And Loaded scored hiss fourth win for the stable of Mitchell Beer and Max Hinton with his victory in the Highview Accounting Mornington Plate.ddddddddddddIt was his second win on end over the 1500m at Mornington.Beer, who is now into his second year of training after joining Hinton last December, said Lock And Loaded had always shown ability but also had a few tricks.Lock And Loaded is part-owned in Malaysia and Beer suggested the gelding would now head that way with a metropolitan win under his belt.Hes part-owned by Mr Tang who races quite a lot of horses in Malaysia and who is becoming a really good supporter of our stable, Beer said.Since this horse joined our stable hes won four races but its taken a bit of a quieter environment, taking him to the beach and getting him to 1500 metres to do his best.Hes won a couple of (benchmark) 64s and a metro one as well, so hes done his job. 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