{"id":151119,"date":"2025-08-16T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:12:09","slug":"blue-jays-george-springer-activated-after-16-games-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151119\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; George Springer activated after 16 games out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 16, 2025, 01:11 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have activated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32078\/george-springer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> from the seven-day concussion injured list, adding him back to the lineup after he missed 16 games since getting hit in the head by a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Springer is batting leadoff as the designated hitter for Saturday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He had been out since a 96 mph pitch from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a>&#8216; <a data-player-guid=\"6e650d6b-5eec-3dc9-8ad5-dcccf2a9093c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5125912\/kade-strowd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kade Strowd<\/a> struck Springer in the head July 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays expressed optimism at the time after Springer was essentially motionless in the dirt from the contact before he slowly walked to the dugout with aid from a man on each side.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45947026\/mlb-rank-2025-season-update-top-50-baseball-players-judge-ohtani-skubal-raleigh\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mlb_rank_in_season_FC_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But he needed time to recover and played in a pair of rehab games with Triple-A Buffalo before being activated.<\/p>\n<p>Springer is batting .291 with 18 home runs and 57 RBIs in 101 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 16, 2025, 01:11 PM ET The Toronto Blue Jays have activated George Springer from the seven-day concussion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-151119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115039800312207089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151119","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=151119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}