{"id":239874,"date":"2025-10-25T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239874\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:55:07","slug":"bo-bichette-not-in-blue-jays-lineup-for-game-2-of-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239874\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette not in Blue Jays lineup for Game 2 of World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"88344347-d02f-4bb0-ab54-81f26f13e5b1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/bo-bichette\/88344347-d02f-4bb0-ab54-81f26f13e5b1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bo Bichette<\/a> will begin Game 2 of the World Series on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays did not include the infielder in their starting lineup for Game 2 against the Dodgers (8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT, Sportsnet, Sportsnet+).<\/p>\n<p>Bichette made his post-season debut in Game 1, playing at second base for the first time in his career while registering a hit, and a walk at the plate in his return from a knee sprain suffered Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MLBonSN25_WS_ALWAYSON_OO_FRIDAY_1280x720-640x360.gif\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watch the Blue Jays in the World Series on Sportsnet\"\/>Watch the Blue Jays in the World Series on Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays look to take a 2-0 lead as they chase their first World Series title in 32 years against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Watch Game 2 on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isaih Kiner-Falefa will take Bichette&#8217;s spot at second base and bat eighth.<\/p>\n<p>George Springer remains at designated hitter while Addison Barger and Nathan Lukes will start in the outfield after both came on as pinch-hitters in Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette will begin Game 2 of the World Series on the bench. The Blue Jays did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-239874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239874","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=239874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}