{"id":547522,"date":"2026-03-19T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547522\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:54:08","slug":"springer-slam-blue-jays-slugger-goes-deep-as-toronto-wallops-new-york-split-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547522\/","title":{"rendered":"Springer Slam: Blue Jays slugger goes deep as Toronto wallops New York split squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773953648_961_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Blue Jays slugger George Springer calls to teammates as he heads to the outfield at spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Feb. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Frank Gunn<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 19, 2026 | 1:47 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>DUNEDIN \u2014 George Springer hit a grand slam to power the Toronto Blue Jays to an 11-0 rout of a New York Yankees split squad on Thursday at TD Ballpark. <\/p>\n<p>Springer, who had three hits, scored twice on the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Daulton Varsho and Andres Gimenez also went deep for the Blue Jays (10-13), who outhit the Yankees 14-3. <\/p>\n<p>Varsho scored twice and had three hits to boost his pre-season batting average to .442. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays slugger George Springer calls to teammates as he heads to the outfield at spring training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-547522","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\/547522","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=547522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}