{"id":207761,"date":"2025-10-12T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:31:07","slug":"bo-bichette-not-on-toronto-blue-jays-alcs-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207761\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette not on Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 ALCS roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Injured Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette<\/a> is not on the roster for the AL Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners<\/a> that begins Sunday night in Toronto, but three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer<\/a> and right-hander Chris Bassitt<\/a> are both active after missing the Division Series win over the Yankees.<\/p>\n

Bichette ran the bases Saturday, the first time he\u2019s done that since spraining his left knee last month. The two-time AL hits leader and two-time All-Star grimaced while rounding second base, pulled up and walked off the field while shaking his head.<\/p>\n

Bichette finished second in the major leagues to New York\u2019s Aaron Judge<\/a> with a .311 batting average. Bichette was injured in a Sept. 6 collision with Yankees catcher Austin Wells<\/a> and hasn\u2019t played since.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s 13 position players for the ALCS are the same group that scored 34 runs in 34 innings against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

An eight-time All-Star, Scherzer was 5-5 with a 5.19 ERA in 17 starts after agreeing to a $15.5 million, one-year contract. He didn\u2019t pitch between March 29 and June 25 because of right thumb inflammation.<\/p>\n

Scherzer was 1-3 with a 9.00 ERA in his final six starts.<\/p>\n

Bassitt went 11-9 with a 3.96 ERA in 32 appearances, all but one of them starts.<\/p>\n

Scherzer and Bassitt took the spots of two relievers, left-hander Justin Bruihl<\/a> and righty Tommy Nance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Injured Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette is not on the roster for the AL Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82218,49,48,82,75156],"class_list":["post-207761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bo-bichette-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-917949","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761","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=207761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}