{"id":195930,"date":"2025-10-07T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:50:10","slug":"with-yanks-southpaw-rodon-on-mound-blue-jays-go-with-righty-heavy-lineup-for-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195930\/","title":{"rendered":"With Yanks southpaw Rodon on mound, Blue Jays go with righty-heavy lineup for Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRONX \u2014 Blue Jays slugger Anthony Santander is back in the starting lineup for Game 3 against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Santander had a single in three at-bats in Toronto&#8217;s 10-1 victory in Game 1 on Saturday. He didn&#8217;t play in Sunday&#8217;s 13-7 Game 2 win at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter will start in right field and bat seventh in a righty-heavy starting lineup against Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodon. Outfielder Myles Straw, who was 0 for 3 in Game 2, is available off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-fielder Daulton Varsho (batting fifth) and shortstop Andres Gimenez (batting ninth) are the only left-handed bats in Toronto&#8217;s batting order.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays will send right-hander Shane Bieber to the mound.<\/p>\n<p>If Game 4 is necessary, it will be played Wednesday night in New York. If the series goes the distance, Game 5 will be played Friday in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRONX \u2014 Blue Jays slugger Anthony Santander is back in the starting lineup for Game 3 against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7238,1513,49,48,17947,76947,462,97275,3980,27353,82,7072,14248,944,3302],"class_list":["post-195930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-santander","tag-blue-jays","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-daulton-varsho","tag-mlb","tag-myles-straw","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-shane-bieber","tag-sports","tag-starting-lineup","tag-the-blue-jays","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195930","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=195930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}