{"id":536663,"date":"2026-03-14T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:28:13","slug":"scherzers-strong-showing-not-enough-as-toronto-blue-jays-fall-to-skubal-detroit-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536663\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer&#8217;s strong showing not enough as Toronto Blue Jays fall to Skubal, Detroit Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DUNEDIN \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tarik-skubal\/1055775\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tarik-skubal\/1055775\" target=\"_blank\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> struck out seven across 4 2\/3 innings as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> cruised to a 6-1 win over 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> in spring training action on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The back-to-back American League Cy Young winner only gave up three hits, one run and now walks as he picked up the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" target=\"_blank\">Max Scherzer<\/a> had five strikeouts and only allowed two hits and two walks in 4 2\/3 innings of work starting for Toronto. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-nance\/919392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-nance\/919392\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Nance<\/a> took the loss giving up two runs in 1 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/matt-vierling\/876043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/matt-vierling\/876043\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Vierling<\/a> drove in two runs off doubles in the fifth &#8212; to open the scoring &#8212; and seventh innings for Detroit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/wenceel-perez\/1053764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/wenceel-perez\/1053764\" target=\"_blank\">Wenceel Perez<\/a>, John Peck, Andrew Jenkins and Max Anderson also drove in runs for the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/daulton-varsho\/1055059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/daulton-varsho\/1055059\" target=\"_blank\">Daulton Varsho<\/a> had a home run for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto will next face the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN \u2014 Tarik Skubal struck out seven across 4 2\/3 innings as the Detroit Tigers cruised to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-536663","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\/536663","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=536663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}