{"id":208106,"date":"2025-10-12T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:59:13","slug":"bichette-out-scherzer-and-bassitt-in-for-alcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208106\/","title":{"rendered":"Bichette out, Scherzer and Bassitt in for ALCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Gregory Strong<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 12, 2025 11:04 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette will not return to the Toronto lineup for the American League Championship Series against Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760146148_446_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He was left off the team\u2019s 26-man roster that was released Sunday morning. Bichette hasn\u2019t played since suffering a left knee sprain five weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 was scheduled for Sunday night at Rogers Centre.<\/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: 'Blue Jays set to face Seattle Mariners in AL title series'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760295552_997_JAYS_MARINERS_VMS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:27<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\tBlue Jays set to face Seattle Mariners in AL title series\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>Veteran right-handers Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt made the cut after sitting out the A-L Division Series. Relievers Tommy Nance and Justin Bruihl played in the last round but were not included on the roster for this series.<\/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\/10\/1760146149_837_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette appeared to be moving closer to a potential return but was in obvious discomfort on Saturday when he tried baserunning drills.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is coming off a four-game win over the New York Yankees. Seattle went the distance against the Detroit Tigers, closing out that series with a marathon 15-inning win on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11474239\/canada-post-rotating-strikes-hit-four-communities\/\" 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\/10\/1760295553_844_04a8e4da0676b6c353c9864bb1304cb0554959ebd25fe41ac5e8cc592e86a75b.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRotating postal strikes underway in Newfoundland, Ontario and B.C.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11471378\/kentucky-man-arrested-stephen-marcum-halloween-display-local-officials\/\" 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\/10\/1760295553_789_stephen-marcum-display.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMan arrested for Halloween display depicting local officials in body bags: police\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays are making their first ALCS appearance since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 was scheduled for Monday at Rogers Centre. The best-of-seven series will shift to Seattle for Game 3 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gregory Strong The Canadian Press Posted October 12, 2025 11:04 am 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,462,44,82,41,39,42,40,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-208106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208106","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=208106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}