{"id":107850,"date":"2025-08-31T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:00:08","slug":"blue-jays-recall-pitcher-easton-lucas-option-justin-bruihl-to-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107850\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays recall pitcher Easton Lucas, option Justin Bruihl to Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/easton-lucas\/ac27528b-9c14-411c-8ad9-842f53ab3d55\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"ac27528b-9c14-411c-8ad9-842f53ab3d55\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Easton Lucas<\/a> was called up from triple-A on Saturday while fellow reliever was optioned back to Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas, 28, appeared in six games for the Blue Jays earlier this season, making five starts with a 6.66 ERA while coughing up 25 hits over 24.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Bruihl, 28, owns a 5.68 ERA in 14 relief appearances on the year with 16 strikeouts in 12.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The shuffle marks the latest in a series of bullpen manouevres for the Blue Jays, whose relievers have battled command issues in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Braydon Fisher and Mason Fluharty, who have each enjoyed clutch moments for Toronto this year, are also in triple-A as the team tries to keep its bullpen fresh.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays face the Milwaukee Brewers in the second of a three-game series on Saturday, with first pitch set for 3:07 p.m. ET \/ 12:07 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lefty Easton Lucas was called up from triple-A on Saturday while fellow reliever was optioned back to Buffalo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-107850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}