{"id":500740,"date":"2026-02-26T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500740\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:00:44","slug":"clement-gets-three-hits-in-blue-jays-spring-training-tie-against-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500740\/","title":{"rendered":"Clement gets three hits in Blue Jays&#8217; spring training tie against Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Ponce struck out two in his Toronto spring training debut, Ernie Clement went 3-for-3 with two runs batted in and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> tied a Detroit Tigers split squad 4-4 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce, signed by Toronto in the off-season after an MVP campaign in South Korea, pitched the opening inning for the Blue Jays and struck out the first two batters he faced in a perfect inning.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto opened the scoring in the top of the fourth on an RBI single from Nathan Lukes and a two-run single from Clement.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit took the lead in the sixth as Corey Julks hit a run-scoring single off Pat Gallagher before Thayron Lirinzo tagged Jack Cushing for a three-run homer.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto tied the game in the ninth when Riley Tirotta scored on a fielder&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (1-3-1) returns to its spring facility in Dunedin, Fla., for a game against the Miami Marlins on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Ponce struck out two in his Toronto spring training debut, Ernie Clement went 3-for-3 with two runs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-500740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500740","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=500740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}