{"id":226022,"date":"2025-10-19T21:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:54:11","slug":"blue-jays-george-springer-in-starting-lineup-for-alcs-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; George Springer in starting lineup for ALCS Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> slugger <a data-player-guid=\"f2825eb9-ced6-3523-e6c7-7c3d7a97c892\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32078\/george-springer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> is in the starting lineup for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Springer, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46630870\/blue-jays-george-springer-exits-alcs-game-5-mariners-knee-hit-pitch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck on the right kneecap<\/a> by a 95.6 mph pitch on Friday and left the game, will bat leadoff as the designated hitter as the Blue Jays face a must-win situation with the Mariners leading the best-of-seven series 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46639566\/mlb-playoffs-2025-alcs-seattle-mariners-toronto-blue-jays-keys-preview-analysis\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1562146_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four-time All-Star is hitting .256 with three home runs and five doubles this postseason. His 22 career playoff homers are tied with Bernie Williams for fourth most.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Springer, 36, received treatment Saturday and tested his knee in a team workout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays slugger George Springer is in the starting lineup for Game 6 of the American League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-226022","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\/226022","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=226022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}