{"id":240629,"date":"2025-10-25T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:03:07","slug":"bo-bichette-not-in-blue-jays-starting-lineup-for-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240629\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette not in Blue Jays’ starting lineup for Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jorge CastilloOct 25, 2025, 04:07 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.<\/p>\n

TORONTO — After returning from a seven-week absence in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday, Bo Bichette<\/a> is not in the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>‘ starting lineup for Game 2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bichette batted fourth and started at second base in Game 1 after never playing the position over his seven-year major league career. He went 1-for-2 with a walk before pinch runner Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> replaced him in the sixth inning. Kiner-Falefa will start at second base in Game 2.<\/p>\n

Bichette, 27, had not played in a game since spraining his left knee in a collision at home plate at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 6. His mobility was clearly limited, though he made a difficult play on a ground ball up the middle from Teoscar Hernandez<\/a> in the third inning.<\/p>\n

A free agent after this season, Bichette rebounded from an injury-plagued 2024 campaign to finish second in the majors with a .311 batting average with 18 home runs, 94 RBIs and an .840 OPS in 139 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge CastilloOct 25, 2025, 04:07 PM ET CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-240629","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\/240629","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=240629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}