{"id":81750,"date":"2026-06-10T02:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/81750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:41:54","slug":"valenzuela-has-winning-hit-as-blue-jays-score-twice-off-duran-in-9th-beat-phillies-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/81750\/","title":{"rendered":"Valenzuela has winning hit as Blue Jays score twice off Duran in 9th, beat Phillies 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duran (1-3) blew a save opportunity for the first time this season after starting 16 for 16.<\/p>\n<p>Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez reached on an infield single to start the ninth and was replaced by Myles Straw. Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango followed with a single, sending Straw to third. Daulton Varsho replaced Pi\u00f1ango and stole second before Straw scored the tying run on a wild pitch, with Varsho advancing to third. Valenzuela lined the next pitch into left field to score Varsho.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez also homered off Zack Wheeler, his seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s rally came after Bryson Stott gave Philadelphia the lead with an RBI double in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper walked to begin the ninth against Louis Varland (3-1), who hadn\u2019t allowed an earned run since April 25 against Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Marsh struck out and Harper advanced on Alec Bohm\u2019s grounder before Stott hit an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>Trea Turner doubled in the first, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Marsh\u2019s two-out double.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto tied it when S\u00e1nchez homered in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler allowed one run and six hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Dylan Cease struck out 11 in six innings in his return from a left hamstring injury. The Phillies swung and missed 29 times on 50 swings against Cease.<\/p>\n<p>Activated off the 15-day injured list before the game, Cease allowed one run and three hits. He walked one and threw 93 pitches, 60 for strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Cease left a May 24 start against the Pirates because of a sore left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Max Scherzer (1-3, 9.64 ERA) is expected to come off the injured list Wednesday to start against Phillies LHP Jesus Luzardo (4-4, 4.56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duran (1-3) blew a save opportunity for the first time this season after starting 16 for 16. Jes\u00fas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32161,32162,16776,32163,32164,2702,3368,32166,11863,11120,1335,1336,32159,1330,1332,32167,48,32160,32165],"class_list":["post-81750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-alec-bohm","tag-brandon-marsh","tag-brandon-valenzuela","tag-bryce-harper","tag-bryson-stott","tag-daulton-varsho","tag-dylan-cease","tag-jhoan-duran","tag-louis-varland","tag-myles-straw","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-phillies-blue-jays-score","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","tag-toronto","tag-trea-turner","tag-zack-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81750","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=81750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}