Toronto - Despite a 5.19 ERA released in five rehabilitation games, Red Sox Righty Lucas Giolito will activate IL from the IL to face the Blue Jays.

How does he think Triple-A Worcester's three games and Double-A Portland's two starts overall?

“It’s obvious that the numbers are not good,” Jolito said at the Rogers Center on Tuesday. "That's not my goal. I've been doing a lot of mechanical things. For example, my last start, I was very focused on mechanical changes, and then the last few innings, and I was like, 'Okay. Let me let go of those situations and just put them into the competition' - and then there were different results."

Giolito allowed 10 runs (all won), 18 hits and 13 walks while hitting 17 innings in 17 games.

"I think this environment (the Grand Slam) might help people," said manager Alex Cora.

Giolito agrees that the intensity and mentality differences between the minor leagues and Major League Baseball games can be played on other transitions.

"Every game is important," said Cholito. "Every court is important. We're here to win, win in the minor leagues you want to win, but it's about development. I'm used to that style of baseball, like everything matters. How do you bring that guy out - get that guy out of it, get out of it, get out of it. It's as many zeros as you can."

He said he would focus on the mechanical adjustment between the two starts.

"So, no matter what I have tomorrow, no matter what I have in the five days after that, I'm going to go out and compete for my abilities," he said. "And hope it will continue for the rest of the year. ”

Giolito signed a two-year, $38.5 million contract with the Red Sox in December 2023. He missed the 2024 season after he received an internal support program to fix damaged elbows in spring training. He then started this season at Illinois State, where he suffered left hamstring pressure at the start of his first spring training.

“It was long and daunting when I thought about the road to get here, but at the same time, it felt like my elbow went yesterday,” Giolito said. "If I look at it from a different perspective, it's really going fast, or it's going very slowly. Yes, I'm so glad to come back and love being like being full-time full-time, actually here to help contribute."

Giolito was an All-Star with White Sox in 2019. He won the Al Cy Young vote in 2019.

“I signed with this team for a reason, and I want to contribute in the best way I know, which is to catch the ball and be able to activate over 100 pitches per troll,” he said. “I wasn’t able to do that until now. Now, I finally have the capacity and have gone through all this rehabilitation work to get to that. I’m happy and happy to be able to do my job again.”

He said his girlfriend would be here. She plans to start all his starts this year.

Giolito said that since October 1, 2023, he hasn't considered what kind of emotions he might feel before he starts.

"I don't know if I'm going to be more nervous than any major league start," Giolito said. "I feel like I've done it long enough that it doesn't affect me in that way anymore. I might be a little anxious tomorrow. Just like when I want to start at 7:07 of the day.

As he described, his change was his “first choice” secondary pitch. This is the secondary ball he most frequently used in seven of his seven major seasons in the Grand Slam season.

He also worked harder to get the slider even harder.

"As long as I throw it on the plate, I'm confident in my stuff," said Cholito. "Then I'm able to use it with a two-shot situation next to the plate and chase some swings and misses. When I'm right, that's what I can do well. So that's the goal - pour things into the area, four courts, and walk from there."

Tomorrow he will come back an important part of his life.

"I feel like I've been missing for a while. I watched our game last year and this year," he said. "I'm so glad I'm back."