{"id":167685,"date":"2025-09-25T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167685\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:01:21","slug":"scherzer-struggles-as-blue-jays-fall-to-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167685\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer struggles as Blue Jays fall to Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 grip on first place in the American League East Division standings weakened again Wednesday after a 7-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer gave up three runs in the first inning and allowed a Masataka Yoshida solo shot in the fifth. Carlos Narvaez iced it with a three-run blast in the eighth inning off reliever Jose Berrios.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet (18-5) kept the Rogers Centre crowd of 39,438 hushed by limiting the Blue Jays to three hits over eight shutout innings.<\/p>\n<p>Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a solo homer for Toronto in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Expert says the Blue Jays have a good chance at making the playoffs this year'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758776479_981_AL_BLUE_JAY.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:35<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpert says the Blue Jays have a good chance at making the playoffs this year\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Toronto has dropped six of its last seven games. The Red Sox outhit the Blue Jays 12-4.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s magic number to clinch its first division title since 2015 remained at four. The Blue Jays\u2019 lead on New York was trimmed to a half-game in the division race.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees were home to the last-place Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays (90-68), who hold the tiebreaker advantage over New York, have already secured a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer (5-5) allowed four earned runs and 10 hits over five innings with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Boston (87-71) holds the second of three wild-card spots in the AL. The Red Sox have won six of their last nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was ejected in the seventh inning for arguing a strike call. Toronto hitting coach David Popkins was also tossed.<\/p>\n<p>TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays: Designated hitter Anthony Santander lined out and struck out twice in his first start since missing nearly four months due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11446948\/canada-provinces-minimum-wage-increases\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758776481_39_2024093018090-20240930160956-40273a1faa1a5d2b56890abca3559111263e54ff13002368148fd4f45a333f76.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMinimum wage to increase in 5 provinces in October\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11449417\/canada-indonesia-trade-agreement\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758776481_723_CP175063401-e1758754753960.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada signs \u2018game-changing\u2019 trade deal with Indonesia, new defence pact\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red Sox: Crochet showed the form that has him among the contenders for the AL Cy Young Award. He had six strikeouts and didn\u2019t walk a batter.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n<p>Romy Gonzalez hit a two-run single in the first inning, one of five straight Boston hits in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>KEY STAT<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox trimmed their magic number for a post-season berth to two.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Brayan Bello (11-8, 3.34 earned-run average) is scheduled to start for Boston in the three-game series finale on Thursday night. The Blue Jays have yet to name their starter.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 grip on first place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,1513,13815,49,48,462,82,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-167685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167685","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=167685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}