{"id":547741,"date":"2026-03-19T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547741\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:07:07","slug":"blue-jays-springer-hits-grand-slam-as-toronto-wallops-new-york-yankees-split-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547741\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays\u2019 Springer hits grand slam as Toronto wallops New York Yankees split squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer, who had three hits, scored twice on the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daulton Varsho and Andres Gimenez also went deep for the Blue Jays (10-13), who outhit the Yankees 14-3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Varsho scored twice and had three hits to boost his pre-season batting average to .442. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blue Jays starter Cody Ponce allowed one hit over 5 2\/3 innings. He had five strikeouts and didn\u2019t walk a batter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ryan Weathers was tagged for seven earned runs over three innings for the Yankees (15-10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN \u2014 George Springer hit a grand slam to power the Toronto Blue Jays to an 11-0 rout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-547741","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\/547741","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=547741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}