{"id":507775,"date":"2026-03-01T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:33:11","slug":"cease-strikes-out-3-gives-up-solo-home-run-in-blue-jays-spring-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507775\/","title":{"rendered":"Cease strikes out 3, gives up solo home run in Blue Jays spring debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dylan Cease was solid in his first spring training and the Toronto Blue Jays had mixed results in a pair of split-squad games Saturday. <\/p>\n

Cease, who signed a seven-year, $210-million US contract with Toronto in the off-season, struck out three and gave up a solo homer over 1 2\/3 innings in Toronto’s 7-5 win over visiting Philadelphia in Dunedin, Fla. <\/p>\n

Cease struck out Phillies stars Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper in a clean first inning. He was relieved by Jesse Hahn after giving up a solo homer to Bryan De La Cruz with two outs in the second. <\/p>\n

Toronto took their first lead of the game in a four-run sixth inning highlight by Josh Rivera’s two-run homer. <\/p>\n

RJ Schreck, who scored on the Rivera homer, stole home in the seventh to cap the scoring. <\/p>\n

Andres Gimenez and Alejandro Kirk also drove in runs for Toronto. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Tampa, the Blue Jays lost 5-1 to the New York Yankees despite a strong start by Jose Berrios. <\/p>\n

The veteran right-hander struck out two and walked two over four no-hit innings. <\/p>\n

The Yankees scored two in the fifth and Austin Wells made it 4-0 with a two-run homer in the sixth. New York’s Kenedy Corona hit a solo shot in the seventh, and Toronto scored its only run when Carlos Mendoza scored in a fielding error in the ninth. <\/p>\n

Toronto (2-6-1) next faces Tarik Skubal and the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in Lakeland, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-507775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507775","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=507775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}