{"id":251505,"date":"2025-10-31T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:53:11","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-of-dh-george-springer-oblique-expected-to-return-for-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251505\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays OF\/DH George Springer (oblique) expected to return for Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> will have the chance to win their first World Series in 32 years on Friday night and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> should be back in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manager John Schneider said Thursday that he expects the 36-year-old outfielder to return from the oblique injury that kept him out of the team\u2019s last two games.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Springer is expected to return to the Blue Jays lineup for Game 6, Blue Jays manager John Schneider says.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/status\/1984010572757921864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer exited the team\u2019s 6-5 loss in Game 3 in the seventh inning of the 18-frame marathon. Springer took an awkward swing while at bat and immediately motioned to the training staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of New Britain, CT, Springer enjoyed a resurgent 2025 season, with a .959 OPS and a career-high 161 OPS+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 14 games this October, Springer is batting .246 with 14 hits, four home runs, nine runs batted in and an .884 OPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer, who spent the first seven seasons of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a>, was named World Series Most Valuable Player in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays will have the chance to win their first World Series in 32 years on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,106313,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-251505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-george-springer-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-526414","tag-mlb","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\/251505","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=251505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}