After bouncing them at this stage last year, the Toronto Blue Jays will meet the Texas Rangers for the second consecutive season in the best-of-five American League Division Series.

Check out how the two teams fared against each other in the regular season:
 

Blue Jays' 2016 results against the Rangers

 
DATE LOCATION RESULT WP LP SV
5/2/2016 TORONTO 2-1L T. Barnette G. Floyd S. Tolleson
5/3/2016 TORONTO 3-1W J. Biagini P. Klein  
5/4/2016 TORONTO 4-3W R. Osuna T. Barnette  
5/5/2016 TORONTO 12-2W J. Happ D. Holland  
5/13/2016 ARLINGTON 5-0W R. Dickey M. Perez  
5/14/2016 ARLINGTON 6-5L T. Barnette G. Floyd  
5/15/2016 ARLINGTON 7-6L M. Bush J. Chavez S. Dyson
 

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Blue Jays pitching v. Rangers

Player W L  ERA
R.A. Dickey 1 0 0.63
Aaron Sanchez 0 0 5.93
Marco Estrada 0 0 3.75
J.A. Happ 1 0 1.29
Joe Biagini 1 0 0.00
Gavin Floyd 0 2 6.00
Roberto Osuna 1 0 0.00
Chad Girodo 0 0 0.00
Drew Storen 0 0 0.00
Jesse Chavez 0 1 5.40
Brett Cecil 0 0 0.00
Ryan Tepera 0 0 9.00

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Blue Jays hitting vs. Rangers

 
Player AB R H HR RBI AVG
Troy Tulowitzki 30  6 8 2 4 .267
Jose Bautista 28 5 5 0 5 .179
Josh Donaldson 28 4 3 0 0 .107
Edwin Encarnacion 27 6 8 3 9 .296
Justin Smoak 27 4 11 3 6 .407
Michael Saunders 25 1 9 0 2 .360
Kevin Pillar 24 3 10 0 4 .417
Russell Martin 19 2 7 0 2 .368
Darwin Barney 17 2 4 0 0 .235
Ryan Goins 10 1 1 1 1 .100
Ezequiel Carrera 6 2 3 0 2 .500
Josh Thole 3 0 0 0 0 .000
Andy Burns 2 0 0 0 0 .000
 

Blue Jays Series Notes:

- The Blue Jays went 8-5 in the season’s final 2 weeks (tied for 5th in MLB). But they were last in the majors in scoring in September/October, averaging 3.7 runs per game.

- This is the 112th major-league postseason, and according to Elias, the Blue Jays are the 3rd team ever to make the postseason after finishing last in the majors in runs per game in September/October.

The 2012 Reds (lost in the NLDS) and the 1974 Athletics (won the World Series) are the other teams to do it.

- But while their offence has suffered, their starting pitching has been outstanding, posting a 3.27 ERA since the start of September (2nd in MLB).

And since Francisco Liriano returned to the rotation 3 weeks ago, the starters have a 2.08 ERA in 21 games, the lowest in the majors.

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Rangers pitching vs. Blue Jays

 
Player W L IP  ERA
Colby Lewis 0 0 14 3.21
Martin Perez 0 1 11.1 0.79
Cesar Ramos 0 0 8.2 1.04
A.J. Griffin 0 0 6 1.50
Sam Dyson 0 0 4 0.00
Tom Wilhelmsen 0 0 3.1 16.2
Tony Barnette 2 1 3 3.00
Derek Holland 0 1 2.2 37.13
Shawn Tolleson 0 0 2.2 13.5
Matt Bush 1 0 2.1 0.00
Jake Diekman 0 0 2 0.00
Andrew Faulkner 0 0 1.1 0.00
Phil Klein 0 1 1.1 20.25
 

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Rangers hitting vs. Blue Jays

 
Player AB R H HR  RBI AVG
Rougned Odor 31 3 6 1 2 .194
Nomar Mazara 29 2 10 1 1 .345
Ian Desmond 28 1 6 1 5 .214
Adrian Beltre 26 2 4 1 2 .154
Prince Fielder 26 0 4 0 1 .154
Mitch Moreland 23 3 5 0 0 .217
Elvis Andrus 21 2 4 0 0 .190
Ryan Rua 15 4 2 0 0 .133
Bobby Wilson 10 1 2 1 4 .200
Delino DeShields 8 0 2 0 0 .250
Brett Nicholas 6 1 2 1 1 .333
Bryan Holaday 5 1 2 0  2 .400
Hanser Alberto 4 0 1 0  0 .250
Drew Stubbs 1 1 1 1  1 1.000
 

 Rangers Series Notes:

- The Rangers went 36-11 in one-run games this season, the best record in one-run games in MLB history (min. 20 one-run games played).

- That means they were 59-56 in games decided by two runs or more this season, a record that would've place them 9th in the AL this season, behind the Yankees and Astros.

- And with a run differential of +8 this season, they were actually outscored by 17 runs in all games other than games decided by one run.