Springer took sole possession of the Blue Jays’ leadoff home run record with his solo shot against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night. The 35-year-old wasted no time getting Toronto on the board with the team looking to bounce back at Great American Ballpark, launching a third-pitch sweeper from Scott Barlow 388 feet over the left-field wall.<\/p>\n
It was the 23rd leadoff blast of Springer’s Blue Jays tenure and the 61st of his career, moving him past Devon White, who hit 22 over four seasons in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Springer also moved 20 back of Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson on the all-time list with the homer, strengthening his grip on the No. 2 spot. The closest active player to Springer is Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Mookie Betts, who has 52 for his career.<\/p>\n
Springer added a second home run, a two-run shot, in the fourth inning to put Toronto up 10-6.<\/p>\n
Since signing with the Blue Jays ahead of the 2021 season, Springer has spent most of his time batting leadoff. However, following a difficult 2024 campaign, the former World Series MVP opened the 2025 season batting lower in the order. <\/p>\n
As the summer wore on, Springer earned his way back atop the Blue Jays lineup and hasn’t looked back since regaining the position on Aug. 16. After Tuesday’s homer, the 12-year veteran is now slashing .302\/.393\/.542 with 25 homers and 69 RBIs, totals that rank among MLB’s best hitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springer took sole possession of the Blue Jays’ leadoff home run record with his solo shot against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-115567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}