{"id":540961,"date":"2026-03-16T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540961\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:55:07","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-beat-marlins-5-4-in-grapefruit-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540961\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays beat Marlins 5-4 in Grapefruit League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">JUPITER \u2014 George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Monday in a six-inning Grapefruit League game at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer also scored on a wild pitch in the third inning before Daulton Varsho hit a two-run double. Myles Straw added an RBI groundout that capped a four-run inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Otto Lopez and Daniel Johnson homered for Miami, with Johnson\u2019s solo shot in the fifth pulling the Marlins within a run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blue Jays reliever Jesse Hahn earned the save after right-fielder RJ Schreck threw out Chris Arroyo at the plate in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto (9-12) next hosts the Baltimore Orioles (8-11) on Wednesday in Dunedin, Fla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jays open the regular season at Rogers Centre on March 27 against the visiting Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 16, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER \u2014 George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-540961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540961","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=540961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}