{"id":240170,"date":"2025-10-25T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:15:13","slug":"bichette-available-off-the-bench-for-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240170\/","title":{"rendered":"Bichette available off the bench for Game 2"},"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 25, 2025 6:45 pm\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 manager John Schneider made several moves to his starting lineup for Saturday\u2019s Game 2 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761403809_563_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infielder Bo Bichette, who made his first game appearance in seven weeks in Toronto\u2019s 11-4 Game 1 win, was available off the bench. Isiah Kiner-Falefa got the start at second base with outfielders Nathan Lukes and Addison Barger drawing in for Davis Schneider and Myles Straw.<\/p>\n<p>Normally a shortstop, Bichette made his first big-league start at second base after being named to the 26-man roster before Game 1. He had missed time with a left knee sprain.<\/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: 'Restaurants look to bounce back during World Series'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_25_BCGEU_STRIKE_ALCOHOL_BAR.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5:06<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\tRestaurants look to bounce back during World 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>\u201cAfter the layoff, I didn\u2019t want to like kill him, you know,\u201d Schneider said in a pre-game media availability from his office. \u201cSo this is stuff we talked about even leading up to the decision to put him on the roster.<\/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\/1761403811_316_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>\u201cI thought he was good yesterday and just want to watch him physically. But he\u2019ll be ready to hit and play whenever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right-handers Kevin Gausman of Toronto and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Los Angeles were set to start in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider also confirmed that Max Scherzer would start Game 3 at Dodger Stadium on Monday. 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If Game 6 and Game 7 are needed, they would be played in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette had a single in the first inning of Game 1 and grounded into a double play in the third. He opened the Blue Jays\u2019 decisive nine-run sixth inning with a walk before being replaced by Kiner-Falefa.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette had a .311 batting average this past season and led Toronto with 181 hits.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 25, 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 25, 2025 6:45 pm 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-240170","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","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240170","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=240170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}