{"id":49234,"date":"2025-08-07T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:42:24","slug":"blue-jays-set-team-record-for-hits-runs-in-three-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49234\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays set team record for hits, runs in three-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has been a dominant offensive series for the Blue Jays on the road against the Colorado Rockies, an Addison Barger two-run single in the top sixth of Wednesday&#8217;s finale gave Toronto 52 total hits (and counting) in the three games.<\/p>\n<p>Barger&#8217;s hit broke the previous club record for hits in a three-game series, which the Blue Jays set with 51 against the Boston Red Sox on July 22-24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays piled up 25 hits in the series opener which they won 15-1, then added another 14 in Tuesday&#8217;s 10-4 win. They finished Wednesday&#8217;s 20-1 win with 24 hits to set the new club record at 63 hits over three games. <\/p>\n<p>In the top of the ninth inning, the Jays then set not only a team record, but a modern-day MLB record for runs in a three-game series with 45. <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"88344347-d02f-4bb0-ab54-81f26f13e5b1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/bo-bichette\/88344347-d02f-4bb0-ab54-81f26f13e5b1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bo Bichette<\/a> scored on a Barger sacrifice fly to drive in Toronto&#8217;s 41st run of the series, topping its previous club record set from the same July 2022 series against Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto was doing much more than just putting the ball in play, however, as they also crushed 13 home runs over the three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what has been a dominant offensive series for the Blue Jays on the road against the Colorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-49234","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\/49234","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=49234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}