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TORONTO -- The rematch of the 2015 American League Championship Series involves two third-place teams.The Kansas City Royals visit the Toronto Blue Jays for a three-game series at the Rogers Centre that begins Monday.The Royals, who beat the Blue Jays in six games in the ALCS before winning the World Series over the New York Mets in five games, are third in the AL Central with a 43-38 record after losing 7-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.The Blue Jays are third in the AL East with a 45-39 record after defeating the Cleveland Indians 17-1 on Sunday.A big problem for the Royals has been their starting rotation.The Royals entered Sunday ranked 12th in the American League in starters ERA at 4.97. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, sat third at 3.77.After the Sunday games, Royals starters had a 27-34 won-lost record and the Blue Jays were 37-20.Im not panicking about any of our starters, Royals manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star. Theyve kept us in games.Pitching coach Dave Eiland said, We cruise along then, boom, we have a three-run inning. Its killing us.While the Blue Jays starters have been good, the hitters started slowly and so did the bullpen. The relievers will enter the series against the Royals worn down by a draining series against the Cleveland Indians, a four-game split that included a 2-1 Cleveland win in 19 innings on Friday.The bullpen should be in slightly better shape by Monday after J.A. Happ provided a seven-inning start with 11 strikeouts on Sunday.A crucial game -- we needed a good outing, Toronto manager John Gibbons said. We were pretty banged up in the bullpen if he hadnt done that, that game might have ended up 35-30 or something.Troy Tulowitzki was among the disappointing early season hitters for the Blue Jays, but he again showed signs Sunday that he is beginning to hit up to his career numbers. The whole offense has perked up of late.Tulowitzki hit a three-run homer and had four RBI on Sunday. Since June 19, he is batting .347 (17-for-49) with six home runs.Tulowitzki said the past two wins against Cleveland were important for the Blue Jays to give them a lift for a push in the final week before the All-Star break. The Blue Jays used a three-run eighth inning on Saturday to end Clevelands 14-game win streak and then chased Corey Kluber early in the romp on Sunday.Real good, Tulowitzki said. I think if youre looking at it from about the seventh inning on yesterday, you think OK, if (we) lose three here, thats tough. Then youre going against Kluber, possibly get swept -- thats probably going through some peoples minds. To respond like we did, finish the series 2-2, and obviously have some big games coming up before the break.The Blue Jays and Royals played a tense four-game series last July 30-Aug. 2. The Blue Jays took three of the four games that included batters being hit by pitches and bench-clearing incidents in the finale won by Toronto 5-2.One of the pitchers involved that fourth game will start Monday. Edinson Volquez (7-7, 4.80 ERA) is 0-4 with a 6.46 ERA in six career starts against Toronto but threw six scoreless innings in Game 1 of the ALCS, a 5-0 Royals victory.The Blue Jays will counter with Aaron Sanchez (8-1, 3.08 ERA), who will be making his first career start against the Royals, although he has faced them as a reliever.He is 0-0 with a 3.38 ERA in three relief outings covering 2 2/3 innings in his regular-season career against the Royals. During the ALCS, he faced the Royals four times, allowing four hits and no runs in a total of two innings.Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar, MVP of last years ALCS, said he was looking forward to the series in Toronto.I know the fans will be pretty crazy, he told MLB.com. But thats OK. We play good when fans are really into it. 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With six wins in eight games overall, the Lakers (7-5) are two games above .500 for just the second time since April 2013.We all love to play this game together, even on nights when it isnt all clicking, said forward Tarik Black, who had 12 points and nine rebounds in just 13 minutes. We didnt care what people were saying about this team before the season started. Its about this locker room. We knew what we had.Russell hit seven 3-pointers and had eight rebounds for the Lakers, who didnt win seven games until New Years Day last season, the worst in the 16-time NBA champion franchises history.Russell had the highest-scoring individual performance by any player this season for the Lakers, whose 10-deep player rotations and balanced production have made them particularly tough to play. Russell lit up Brooklyn again after scoring a career-high 39 on the Nets last year, including eight 3-pointers that prompted his now-famous Ice in My Veins celebration of big shots.While Mozgov had his highest-scoring game for his new team, Randle added another balanced floor game in his first triple-double since March 25.He is continuing to get better and really realize what he is capable of doing, Walton said of Randle.Brook Lopez had 30 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 29 points as Brooklyn rebounded solidly from a 32-point thrashing delivered by the Clippers in the same building one night earlier while Lopez sat out to rest.We bounced back from last nights tough loss, Nets coach Kennyy Atkinson said.dddddddddddd We just have to sustain it a little longer and do a little better on the defensive end.But the Lakers shot 43 free throws to the Nets 20, and Los Angeles solidly controlled the boards.Down the stretch, I dont want to comment too much on the calls, but we did foul too much and put them on the line, said Lopez, who hit four 3-pointers. That made it tough for us. We still had great looks. I want our guys to take those shots. They just didnt go down.BENCH BATTLEThe NBAs two most productive benches had big games. Led by Jordan Clarksons 13 points, the Lakers reserves outscored the Nets bench 43-40. 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Former Nets forward Andrei Kirilenko watched the game from courtside.Lakers: Clarkson had a career-high five steals. ... LA has beaten Brooklyn three straight times. ... The Lakers scored 120 points for the fourth time this season after managing the feat just three times in the previous two seasons combined.UP NEXTNets: The road trip ends Friday at Oklahoma City.Lakers: After their final back-to-back days off for an entire month, they host San Antonio on Friday. ' ' '