{"id":242440,"date":"2025-10-27T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:10:10","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-to-start-bo-bichette-at-second-for-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242440\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays to start Bo Bichette at second for Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761527410_974_rogers_jesse.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jesse RogersOct 27, 2025, 12:23 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> infielder <a data-player-guid=\"bd16899c-bd8d-ad25-94e9-c1d9731ccd0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38904\/bo-bichette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Bichette<\/a> will be in the starting lineup, playing second base against the <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday, according to manager John Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette, 27, only pinch-hit in Game 2 after starting Game 1 at second, but Schneider indicated the former All-Star is ready to go as the series shifts to Los Angeles for Games 3, 4 and 5.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>The series is tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expecting him to be in there,&#8221; Schneider said on Sunday. &#8220;He&#8217;s out here working out. Felt good coming out of yesterday [Game 2]. I think with each day that goes on, he&#8217;ll probably get as close to normal as he can at this stage of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bichette went 1 for 2 with a walk in Game 1 before coming out early due to the Blue Jays 11-4 blowout win. The plan all along was <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46722650\/bo-bichette-not-blue-jays-starting-lineup-game-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for him to sit out Game 2<\/a>, unless needed.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette wound up pinch-hitting in the seventh inning of the Toronto&#8217;s Game 2 loss, grounding out to shortstop. He also played the final two innings of Game 2 in the field at second while regular second baseman <a data-player-guid=\"dad72165-d55b-ad32-35dc-4e9fd12f88a1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37729\/andres-gimenez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andres Gimenez<\/a> remained at shortstop, where he&#8217;s played since Bichette injured his left knee in early September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a little bit different,&#8221; Gimenez said. &#8220;I remember spring training we were talking about &#8212; just have the communication just to play next to each other, and now we are having the same conversations playing next to each other on the opposite side. &#8220;I&#8217;m just happy to see Bo come back. I know how hard he&#8217;s been working in the training room and the weight room just to get back at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schneider indicated that Bichette being able to workout on Sunday was &#8220;a good sign&#8221; and sees no reason why he won&#8217;t be ready when the World Series resumes on Monday at Dodgers Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers righty <a data-player-guid=\"73885c08-1817-3726-f379-b0a479a92aae\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33190\/tyler-glasnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Glasnow<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46731062\/blue-jays-max-scherzer-start-game-3-world-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scheduled to face Blue Jays veteran<\/a> <a data-player-guid=\"a9fe8a8f-25e3-3d90-b410-96f40b03a927\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/28976\/max-scherzer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Scherzer<\/a> in Game 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersOct 27, 2025, 12:23 AM CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-242440","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\/242440","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=242440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}