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TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles meet Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series at Rogers Centre that could decide the first wild-card spot in the American League.The Blue Jays lost Monday 7-5 to the New York Yankees after being outscored 5-2 in the ninth inning, and the Orioles had the day off.The result left the Blue Jays, who occupy the first wild-card spot, one game ahead of the Orioles, who are in the second wild-card spot.Each team has six regular-season games left.The Blue Jays have some injury concerns, the result of two bench-clearing skirmishes in the second inning of the game Monday against the Yankees.Second baseman Devon Travis had to leave the game on Monday in the sixth inning with a sore shoulder that hampered his swing at the plate. Right-hander Joaquin Benoit, a key member of the bullpen, had to be helped from the field with a calf injury after the second melee.More is expected to be known about the injuries on Tuesday.Toronto appeared to have a chance to gain a two-game advantage over the Orioles on Monday when they took a 3-2 lead into the ninth.With regular closer Roberto Osuna unavailable because of his recent work load, the save opportunity was left to Jason Grilli, who coughed up four hits that included two home runs and four of the Yankees five runs in the inning.The Blue Jays scored twice in the bottom of the ninth.Were going to come back against Baltimore ready to go, said Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ, who was deprived of his 21st win by New Yorks ninth-inning rally.The Blue Jays will start right-hander Aaron Sanchez (13-2, 3.12 ERA), who has yet to record a decision in three starts in September in which he has a 5.40 ERA. The Blue Jays are 0-3 in those starts even though Sanchez is 0-0.The Orioles will start right-hander Kevin Gausman (8-11, 3.57 ERA).Gausman had his start on Sunday bumped to Tuesday to give him more time to rest an intercostal injury. He had five straight quality starts before allowing five runs in 6 1/3 innings to the torrid Boston Red Sox.There is something to be gained to winning every game you play, is the way Orioles manager Buck Showalter put it. There is something to be lost every game you lose. Instead of looking at all things you shoulda, woulda, coulda done to make it a little bit easier, I look at all the things that our guys have done to have this opportunity. Im proud of them that its (Sept. 27) and we continue to play important games.In two starts against the Blue Jays this season, Gausman is 0-1 with a 7.71 ERA. He has a 4.15 ERA in 11 career games (six starts) against them.Sanchez is 3-0 with a 3.38 ERA in four starts against the Orioles this season. 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He will miss league matches against Chelsea on Monday and West Ham on Dec.LONDON -- Qatars World Cup sites will be inspected from next year by an international trade union which wants the deaths of all workers assessed by external coroners and for the causes to be published.Qatar has come under fierce criticism over living and working conditions for workers since being awarded the 2022 World Cup in a contentious vote six years ago.Qatar says only four stadium workers have died, with just one fatality the result of a work-related accident after a Nepali was hit by a water truck last month. The Building and Wood Workers International, which will conduct labor and accommodation inspections with tournament organizers from January, wants more information published about deaths in the low-paid, migrant workforce.We have to know the cause, the actual medical legal cause, BWI general secretary Ambet Yuson told The Associated Press after signing the partnership with Qatar on Tuesday.Yuson wants non-Qatari coroners to examine the bodies of workers and for death certificates to be published.We will propose this in the working group, Yuson said. We really want to know what happened. We want to verify and investigate. They are committed to be open to us.World Cup workers are covered by regulations that are more rigorous than the national laws, detailing how contractors must ethically recruit, promptly pay, and decentlly house them.dddddddddddd But the BWI is concerned that the regulations only cover workers directly employed by the companies handed World Cup contracts, overlooking subcontractors who could be forced to live in cramped conditions.We have to look through the whole supply chain, through the subcontracting system, Yuson said. There have already been reports that the big multinational construction companies have good facilities.Now we are interested in looking at the subcontractors. There is a possibility that many subcontractors are not complying. This is what we want to look at seriously -- that the standards are applying not just to the main contractors but to all the level of subcontractors.World Cup organizers said Tuesday that 36,000 people will be employed on its projects in the next year as eight stadiums are built.Our inspection and auditing processes will need to be bolstered to ensure we continue to deliver sustainable and meaningful progress for our workers, organizing committee secretary general Hassan Al Thawadi said in a statement. While we have made a number of improvements in the last two years, from health and safety to accommodation standards, we recognize there is still work to be done. ' ' '