{"id":146678,"date":"2025-08-15T02:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146678\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T02:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:38:13","slug":"jays-lead-the-al-and-reinforcements-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146678\/","title":{"rendered":"Jays lead the AL and reinforcements are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays are the top team in the American League standings and lead the major leagues in several statistical categories.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As good as Canada\u2019s lone big-league squad has been this season, the club is set to get even better.<\/p>\n<p>Reinforcements will soon be on the way for the Blue Jays, who beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Thursday in the rubber game of a three-game interleague series.<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder\/designated hitter George Springer \u2014 one of the team\u2019s top performers this season \u2014 will likely return at some point during a three-game series against the Texas Rangers that starts Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been right in the middle of everything this year,\u201d said Blue Jays manager John Schneider. \u201cAnd not just with his performance, but I think with what we\u2019re doing on the bases and with what the dugout feels like and things like that.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '\u2018Risk-reward could be huge:\u2019 Fans react to Blue Jays acquiring Bieber, Dominguez'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755225491_417_RAFAT_PKG_WEB_PIC.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:59<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Risk-reward could be huge:\u2019 Fans react to Blue Jays acquiring Bieber, Dominguez\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo looking forward to getting him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Springer has been out with a concussion since he was hit in the helmet by a pitch on July 28 against Baltimore. The veteran slugger has been taking batting practice in recent days and was scheduled to serve as DH in a tune-up game for Triple-A Buffalo on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Over 101 games, Springer has a .291 average, 18 homers, 57 RBIs and an on-base and slugging percentage of .889. He has primarily served as DH this season but can still be slotted into the outfield as needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s probably benefit to getting him in the outfield a little bit more with how we\u2019re built right now \u2026 (but) I think he\u2019s done really well in the DH spot,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cI want to keep that going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Newly acquired starter Shane Bieber could also join the team later this month. He was tabbed to start Friday night in what could be his final rehab appearance for the Bisons.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber has been out for over a year after undergoing elbow surgery. Once activated, the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner could give the Blue Jays a front-of-the-rotation weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11334305\/air-canada-strike-binding-arbitration-request-minister-cupe\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755225493_589_6ece92cc4f32ebdfd0b1edaff43d400799e3f1d7cff67405c38bb718c7891f6b.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAir Canada asks for binding arbitration as imminent shutdown looms\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11332831\/air-canada-flights-strike-your-rights\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Air-Canada-Flight-Attendants-Passengers.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGot an Air Canada ticket? Your rights, as strike flight cancellations begin\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, top pitching prospect Trey Yesavage was recently promoted to Triple-A and could be in the mix for a late-season call-up. Starter Alek Manoah (elbow) is also rehabbing with the Bisons and could return to Toronto this season as well.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays improved their American League-best record to 71-51 with their latest victory.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning off Matthew Boyd to make a winner of Max Scherzer (3-2), who worked seven-plus innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just fighting the whole entire at-bat looking for a pitch to hit,\u201d Guerrero said via interpreter Hector Lebron. \u201cIt happened that he left that pitch hanging and then I could connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays improved their AL-best home record to 40-20. Toronto leads the major leagues in hits (1,116), batting average (. 268) and on-base percentage (. 337).<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays are the top team in the American League standings and lead the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,22896,26245,1266,62,1290,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115030465603304743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}