Max Scherzer will get the nod on Friday against the Kansas City Royals, but the weekend’s starters have yet to be determined, manager John Schneider told reporters. <\/p>\n
The start will come on one day of extra rest for the 41-year-old Scherzer, who last pitched Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n
Friday’s game also represents the first possible chance for the Blue Jays to clinch a post-season berth, pending Thursday’s results.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, manager John Schneider said Trey Yesavage would also pitch during the weekend series against the Royals, though his role had yet to be determined.<\/p>\n
With Kevin Gausman having gone Wednesday and Chris Bassitt starting Thursday, it seemingly leaves Yesavage, Shane Bieber and Jose Berrios as options for Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s series in Kansas City will mark the end of a 13-game-in-13-days stretch for the club and its final road series of the season. After an off-day Monday, the Blue Jays will return home to Rogers Centre for a pair of three-game sets against the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer will get the nod on Friday against the Kansas City Royals, but the weekend’s starters have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-152950","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\/152950","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=152950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}