{"id":122081,"date":"2025-09-06T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122081\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:43:03","slug":"blue-jays-push-max-scherzers-start-against-yankees-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122081\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays push Max Scherzer’s start against Yankees for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> flipped their starting rotation against the New York Yankees<\/a> this weekend and will start Chris Bassitt<\/a> on Saturday and Max Scherzer<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Scherzer, a 41-year-old right-hander, left his outing against Milwaukee last Sunday because of back tightness.<\/p>\n

“Just wanted to give Max an extra day with the upper back thing feeling better. He threw a side yesterday,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said before Friday night’s series opener against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Scherzer is 5-2 with a 4.11 ERA in 13 starts and is 4-1 with a 3.36 ERA since Aug. 1. He was sidelined between March 29 and June 25 by right thumb inflammation.<\/p>\n

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Bassitt, a 36-year-old right-hander, is 11-7 with a 4.10 ERA.<\/p>\n

“After Max’s last start he was kind of ready for it if need be and should be good to go,” Schneider said.<\/p>\n

Seeking its first division title since 2015, Toronto entered the series with a three-game AL East lead over New York.<\/p>\n

Anthony Santander<\/a> could return this month Schneider said outfielder Anthony Santander, sidelined since May 29 by a partially dislocated left shoulder, could start a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment on Tuesday with Buffalo.<\/p>\n

“Tony’s here through the weekend ramping up right-handed,” Schenider said of the switch-hitter. “Didn’t want to get him playing in games ’til he was a little more comfortable right-handed.”<\/p>\n

After signing a $92.5 million, five-year contract, Santander was hitting .179 with six homers and 18 RBI before going on the IL. He hurt his shoulder when he tumbled over a low fence at Anaheim in the sixth inning in May 8<\/a> in an unsuccessful try for a Tim Anderson<\/a> foul ball. Santander was replaced in the ninth inning, returned May 13 and hit .122 (5 for 41) with two RBI in 14 games before going on the IL.<\/p>\n

Bullpen moves Toronto recalled right-hander Braydon Fisher recalled from Triple-A Buffalo and optioned right-hander Dillon Tate<\/a> to the Bisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays flipped their starting rotation against the New York Yankees this weekend and will start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-122081","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\/122081","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=122081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}