{"id":545291,"date":"2026-03-18T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:00:10","slug":"barger-homers-in-toronto-blue-jays-pre-season-loss-to-baltimore-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545291\/","title":{"rendered":"Barger homers in Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; pre-season loss to Baltimore Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DUNEDIN \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Barger<\/a> hit a solo homer for 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 a 3-2 pre-season loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> on Wednesday at TD Ballpark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Orioles (9-11) scored two runs in the opening frame against Toronto starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-fleming\/1055166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-fleming\/1055166\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Fleming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Six Toronto pitchers worked in relief after Fleming\u2019s two-inning appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> had a double for the Blue Jays (9-13), who had five hits on the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto was 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/albert-suarez\/455792\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/albert-suarez\/455792\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Suarez<\/a> worked four innings for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN \u2014 Addison Barger hit a solo homer for the Toronto Blue Jays in a 3-2 pre-season loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-545291","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\/545291","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=545291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}