{"id":899351,"date":"2026-09-20T21:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899351\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:46:30","slug":"blue-jays-lift-guerrero-jr-in-fourth-inning-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899351\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays lift Guerrero Jr. in fourth inning against Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star first baseman was 1-for-2 with a single before departing. He was replaced by Myles Straw, who went into left field, while Josh Smith moved to third and Kazuma Okamoto took over at first base.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero has struggled mightily this season, slashing .262\/.335\/.359 with a .694 OPS, nine homers and 56 RBIs through 140 games.<\/p>\n<p>His exit comes just hours after the Blue Jays announced ace Dylan Cease will miss his next start with shoulder fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto sits three games behind the Chicago White Sox for the final AL wild-card spot and has just six games remaining after Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star first baseman was 1-for-2 with a single before departing. He was replaced by Myles Straw, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-899351","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\/899351","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=899351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}