{"id":58132,"date":"2026-05-23T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:22:12","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-beat-pittsburgh-pirates-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58132\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays beat Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springer hits 65th leadoff homer as Blue Jays hand Skenes back-to-back defeats, beat Pirates 5-2<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHAPPENING RIGHT NOW. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION     ANNOUNCING A POTENTIAL DEAL WITH IRAN. BUT THE PRESIDENT HAS SHARED ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS SO FAR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND AREAS OF DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT WHEN WE CAN GET A BREAK FROM THE SHOWERS AND FINALLY SEE SOME SUNSHINE. I\u2019LL SHOW YOU THAT IN THE FULL TEN DAY FORECAST. WET WEATHER, NOT SLOWING DOWN. SOME HOLIDAY WEEKEND PLANS. WE HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT TO RIVERFRONT PARK IN HARRISBURG. DESPITE THE RAIN. WGAL NEWS 8 AT SIX. STARTS NOW. DARK SKIES OVER LANCASTER TONIGHT. MUCH OF THAT CAMERA COVERED IN RAIN WITH THE DREARY AND GLOOM OUT THERE ACROSS MUCH OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY TODAY. GOOD EVENING. I\u2019M AJ SISON ALONGSIDE METEOROLOGIST RYAN ARGENTI. RYAN, YOU HAD TO GET THE JACKET, THE UMBRELLA OUT TODAY. IS THIS GOING AWAY? YEAH. SO WE\u2019RE LOOKING AT SOME MORE SUNSHINE FURTHER DOWN FURTHER. WHAT\u2019S THE WHAT IS WHAT THEY SAY. LIGHT. THERE\u2019S LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. YEAH, THAT\u2019S WHAT IT IS. YEAH. SO YEAH. SO IT IS, IT IS LOOKING LIKE WE ARE GOING TO BE SEEING SOME SUNSHINE MORE SO NEXT WEEK THOUGH. BUT FIRST WE GOT TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THOSE DREARY CONDITIONS. I WOULD SAY ALMOST ABYSMAL LOOKING OUTSIDE. YOU SEE YOUR SKYCAM RIGHT NOW. YOU SEE THOSE THOSE RAINDROPS ON THE LENS THERE. AND IN TERMS OF TEMPERATURES, THEY\u2019RE SITTING RIGHT AROUND 52 DEGREES. SO CERTAINLY COOL OUT THERE. IT\u2019S DREARY. IT IS GLOOMY OUT THERE. UNFORTUNATELY, WE\u2019RE TRYING TO GET THE SUNSHINE IN FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND FOR EVERYBODY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT\u2019S GOING TO BE RAINY FOR FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME. YOU CAN SEE STORM TEAM LIVE RADAR NETWORK. THE BULK OF THE SHOWERS. HOWEVER, I WILL SAY HAS MOVED OUT. WE ARE LOOKING, LOOKING AT A BIT OF A LULL AS WE HEAD INTO THE REST OF THIS EVENING. NOW I WILL MAKE A MENTION. I DO SEE SOME MORE SHOWERS DOWNSTREAM. YOU SEE SOME LITTLE THUNDER SHOWERS OFF TOWARDS WEST VIRGINIA AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM STARTS MOVING ITS WAY CLOSER TO THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. HOWEVER, WE WILL START TO SEE THOSE SHOWERS PICK BACK UP AS WE HEAD INTO TOMORROW. SO WE ARE SEEING SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THEN SOME ISOLATED AFTERNOON SHOWERS FOR OUR SUNDAY. A FEW MORE SHOWERS ON TAP FOR MONDAY, AND THEN WE START TO GET UP IN THOSE TEMPERATURES. ONCE WE GET TO TUESDAY, FEELING A LITTLE BIT MORE SEASONABLE INTO THE UPPER 70S. HERE\u2019S OUR PRECIPITATION CHANCES OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THEY ARE THE GREATEST. ONCE WE GET INTO OVERNIGHT TONIGHT INTO EARLY TOMORROW, THOSE ISOLATED CHANCES REALLY START TO WORK THEIR WAY IN. AS WE HEAD INTO EARLY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES ARE INTO THE 50S RIGHT NOW. A LITTLE BIT OF A BREEZE THOUGH. OUTSIDE YOU SEE BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MILE PER HOUR BREEZE IN SOME COMMUNITIES. SO HERE\u2019S OUR 24 HOUR FORECAST. WE DO HAVE THAT IMPACT PERIOD SET UP UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING. SO IMPACT NIGHT TONIGHT. AND THEN AN IMPACT MORNING UP UNTIL 10 A.M. FOR TOMORROW. NOW WE\u2019LL HAVE MORE ON THAT FULL FORECAST COMING UP HERE IN JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES. ANY MEMORIAL DAY PLANS, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT UMBRELLA AND JACKET IS. THANKS, RYAN. DESPITE THE RAIN, PEOPLE STILL CAME OUT FOR THE 58TH ANNUAL ARTS FEST IN HARRISBURG. IT FEATURED MORE THAN 170 ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. EVEN WITH THE WEATHER, ATTENDEES SAY THEY ENJOYED THE SMALLER CROWDS. TODAY. I AM HAPPY, ACTUALLY, TO BE OUT HERE TODAY. IT\u2019S JUST IT\u2019S ACTUALLY NOT BAD. IT\u2019S NOT SUPER CROWDED AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT EVERYTHING AND EVEN CONNECT WITH THE ARTISTS. SO DEFINITELY COME OUT. JUST BRING YOUR UMBRELLA AND YOU\u2019LL BE FINE. AND WHAT A GREAT EVENT THAT WILL BE OUT THERE UNTIL 7:00 TONIGHT AT RIVERFRONT PARK AND WILL BE OPEN BACK OPEN TOMORROW AT 10:00 TOMORROW MORNING. THE WEATHER IS PUTTING A DAMPER ON SOME EVENTS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND TO SEE THE CHANGES TO EVENTS HAPPENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY. YOU CAN SCAN THE QR CODE ON YOUR SCREEN OR HEAD TO WGAL.COM. NEW TONIGHT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS THE U.S. AND IRAN ARE CLOSE TO WORKING OUT A DEAL TO END THEIR CONFLICT. THE PRESIDENT POSTED THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING A BROAD AGREEMENT BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND TEHRAN HAS HAS LARGELY BEEN NEGOTIATED. WHILE NEGOTIATORS ARE WORKING OUT THE FINAL DETAILS, THE PRESIDENT SAID THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WOULD REOPEN AS PART OF THAT AGREEMENT. TODAY WITH A GROUP OF GULF AND REGIONAL LEADERS. THEY ENCOURAGED THE PRESIDENT TO ACCEPT THE PROPOSED FRAMEWORK WITH IRAN. NEW TONIGHT, DAUPHIN COUNTY EMERGENCY DISPATCHERS SAY THE CORONER WAS CALLED TO A STATE POLICE INCIDENT IN LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP THIS MORNING. IT CLOSED RIVER ROAD BETWEEN WATER AND HOLLANDALE STREETS. THIS HAPPENED AROUND 930 AND WILL PROVIDE UPDATES ON AIR AND ONLINE AS WE LEARN MORE. ALSO NEW TONIGHT, A MANHEIM TOWNSHIP POLICE MADE AN ARREST IN A SHOOTING AFTER A TRAFFIC DISPUTE THAT WE TOLD YOU ABOUT YESTERDAY ON NEWS EIGHT. MAURICE THOMAS OF YORK IS FACING AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND FIREARMS CHARGES. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY EARLIER TODAY. POLICE SAY THE ROAD RAGE ROAD RAGE INCIDENT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE FIVE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE DRIVER OF A RED JEEP THOUGHT THE ACTIONS OF A WHITE SUV WERE UNSAFE, SO THE JEEP DRIVER BLEW THEIR HORN ON DALE ROAD. TO BLOOMINGDALE AVENUE AND STERLING PLACE, WHERE THE SUV DRIVER FIRED A GUNSHOT AT THE JEEP. THE ROUND HIT THE VEHICLE AND WENT INTO THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT. NO ONE WAS HURT. THE DAUPHIN COUNTY COMMUNITY HELD A FUNDRAISER TODAY FOR A TEACHER WHO WAS KILLED IN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP EARLIER THIS WEEK. THE GREENHOUSE SALE AT UPPER DAUPHIN AREA HIGH SCHOOL THIS MORNING HONORED THE LATE TARYN MORGAN. SHE HAD BEEN AN AGRICULTURE TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL SINCE 2024. STATE POLICE SAY HER HUSBAND, DENNIS MORGAN, SHOT AND KILLED HER THURSDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE TRYING TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE. DENNIS WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT HE IS NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE. THE NAVY BAND WIND QUARTET PERFORMING AT THE WEST SHORE FARMERS MARKET EARLIER TODAY. THIS IS PART OF THE BAND\u2019S ROAD TRIP TO 250 TOUR, MAKING STOPS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. THEY ALSO PERFORMED AT ARTS FEST THIS AFTERNOON, AND THEY\u2019RE SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT THE HARRISBURG SENATORS GAME THIS EVENING. THE GROUP WILL STAY IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY FOR MORE STOPS THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, INCLUDING THE AIR SHOW AND BIG 33 FOOTBALL GAME. TOMORROW. AND IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, THE HAMPTON TOWNSHIP VETERANS RECOGNITION COMMITTEE HOSTED A MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE THIS MORNING. RETIRED COLONEL SUE MYERS GAVE THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND TALKED ABOUT THE SACRIFICES MADE BY MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED FORCES. SHE IS A GOLD STAR SPOUSE AND WAS MARRIED TO MAJOR GENERAL HAROLD HAROLD GREENE, WHO DIED IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2014. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED A MAJOR POLICY CHANGE THAT COULD AFFECT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRANTS SEEKING GREEN CARDS. FROM NOW ON, FOREIGNERS SEEKING GREEN CARDS MUST RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES TO APPLY, EXCEPT IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES, OR THOSE WHO, QUOTE, PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT OR OTHERWISE ARE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST. FOR NEARLY FIVE DECADES, PEOPLE WITH TEMPORARY STATUS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A PERMANENT RESIDENT WHILE LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES. U.S. CITIZENSH\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Springer hits 65th leadoff homer as Blue Jays hand Skenes back-to-back defeats, beat Pirates 5-2<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ap.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"AP logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:37 PM EDT May 23, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Springer hit his 65th leadoff home run and the Toronto Blue Jays sent Paul Skenes to losses in consecutive starts for the first time this season, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Saturday for their fourth straight win and seventh in 10 games.Video above: Top stories, weather from WGAL News 8. Skenes (6-4), the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, allowed four runs and a career-high nine hits and one walk in five-plus innings with two strikeouts, just his second time with fewer than five this season. His ERA rose to 3.00.Skenes left after giving up four straight hits in the sixth. In his previous outing, against Philadelphia on May 17, Skenes tied his big league high by giving up five runs .Tyler Heineman also homered for the defending AL champions, his first since last July 19.Patrick Corbin (2-1) allowed one run and five hits in six innings with a season-high seven strikeouts. Jeff Hoffman struck out the side in the ninth for his fifth save in eight chances.Pirates pitching coach Bill Murphy and manager Don Kelly were ejected in separate incidents in the sixth. Murphy was tossed after plate umpire Alan Porter initially missed a challenge request from catcher Henry Davis, while Kelly was tossed for arguing a checked swing call.Springer homered on Skenes\u2019 third pitch of the game, snapping the right-hander\u2019s 15-inning road scoreless streak. Springer has five homers this season and is second in leadoff homers by 81 by Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson.Marcell Ozuna\u2019s two-out RBI double tied the score in the sixth, and the Blue Jays took a 4-1 lead in the bottom half on Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez\u2019s run-scoring double, Ernie Clement\u2019s RBI single and a run-scoring, double-play grounder by Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez.Up next Blue Jays RHP Dylan Cease (3-2, 2.98 ERA) is scheduled to face Pirates RHP Mitch Keller (4-2, 3.86) in Sunday\u2019s series finale.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tTORONTO, ON \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>George Springer hit his 65th leadoff home run and the Toronto Blue Jays sent Paul Skenes to losses in consecutive starts for the first time this season, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Saturday for their fourth straight win and seventh in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Video above: Top stories, weather from WGAL News 8. <\/p>\n<p>Skenes (6-4), the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, allowed four runs and a career-high nine hits and one walk in five-plus innings with two strikeouts, just his second time with fewer than five this season. His ERA rose to 3.00.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes left after giving up four straight hits in the sixth. In his previous outing, against Philadelphia on May 17, Skenes tied his big league high by giving up five runs .<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Heineman also homered for the defending AL champions, his first since last July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Corbin (2-1) allowed one run and five hits in six innings with a season-high seven strikeouts. Jeff Hoffman struck out the side in the ninth for his fifth save in eight chances.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates pitching coach Bill Murphy and manager Don Kelly were ejected in separate incidents in the sixth. Murphy was tossed after plate umpire Alan Porter initially missed a challenge request from catcher Henry Davis, while Kelly was tossed for arguing a checked swing call.<\/p>\n<p>Springer homered on Skenes\u2019 third pitch of the game, snapping the right-hander\u2019s 15-inning road scoreless streak. Springer has five homers this season and is second in leadoff homers by 81 by Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Marcell Ozuna\u2019s two-out RBI double tied the score in the sixth, and the Blue Jays took a 4-1 lead in the bottom half on Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez\u2019s run-scoring double, Ernie Clement\u2019s RBI single and a run-scoring, double-play grounder by Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n<p>Up next <\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Dylan Cease (3-2, 2.98 ERA) is scheduled to face Pirates RHP Mitch Keller (4-2, 3.86) in Sunday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springer hits 65th leadoff homer as Blue Jays hand Skenes back-to-back defeats, beat Pirates 5-2 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25291,25293,11862,25290,8237,1016,11877,25295,25288,24938,11874,329,25289,9256,25294,25292,48,1017],"class_list":["post-58132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-65th-leadoff-homer","tag-coach-bill-murphy","tag-era","tag-five-plus-innings","tag-game","tag-george-springer","tag-hit","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-run","tag-season","tag-skenes","tag-springer","tag-streak","tag-strikeout","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}