{"id":325200,"date":"2025-12-04T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:56:08","slug":"blue-jays-push-season-opener-back-a-day-now-kick-off-with-a-march-27-night-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325200\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays push season opener back a day, now kick off with a March 27 night game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays will open their 2026 season a day later than originally planned, the Major League Baseball team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays will now kick off their season on the evening of Friday, March 27, against the visiting Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They were originally scheduled to start the campaign with an afternoon home game on March 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A reason for the switch was not provided. But given the surge in the Blue Jays\u2019 nationwide popularity during their run to last year\u2019s World Series, a Friday night opener would likely better capitalize on the buzz around the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays also announced that, outside a few exceptions, home games would continue to start at 7:07 p.m. ET on weekdays, 3:07 p.m. Saturdays and 1:07 p.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto plays 12 of its first 15 games at home in 2026, including an anticipated World Series rematch with the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers from April 6-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays will open their 2026 season a day later than originally planned, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-325200","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\/325200","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=325200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}