{"id":632510,"date":"2026-04-26T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:23:10","slug":"blue-jays-yohendrick-pinango-makes-mlb-debut-in-finale-against-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632510\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Yohendrick Pinango makes MLB debut in finale against Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> rookie outfielder made his MLB debut on Sunday against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Pinango is batting seventh and play left field as the Blue Jays look for their second straight series win.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Venezuelan has appeared in 22 games with the triple-A Buffalo Bisons this season, hitting three home runs with 13 RBIs and an .858 OPS. He is the team&#8217;s 10th-ranked prospect, per MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Pinango, who bats left-handed, joined the team Saturday when fellow outfielder Nathan Lukes was placed on the 10-day injured list, but did not appear in the Blue Jays&#8217; 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>He will roam the outfield behind starter Patrick Corbin, who has a 3.68 ERA in three starts for the Blue Jays this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians will counter with right-hander Slade Cecconi, who is 0-3 with a 6.20 ERA on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays rookie outfielder made his MLB debut on Sunday against the Cleveland Guardians. Pinango is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-632510","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\/632510","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=632510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}