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The Toronto Blue Jays activated designated hitter George Springer off the 10-day injured list Wednesday after the four-time all-star missed 15 games because of a fractured left big toe. <\/p>\n
Eloy Jimenez was designated for assignment. <\/p>\n
Springer wasn’t in the starting lineup for Wednesday’s series finale against the visiting Boston Red Sox but came on as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning. He lined an RBI single to centre on the first pitch he saw from Boston left-hander Jovani Moran. The hit gave Toronto a 6-1 lead.<\/p>\n
It was Springer’s first plate appearance since an April 11 game against Minnesota, when he fouled a ball off his foot in the third inning. Springer completed his at-bat, grounding out to third base, but was later replaced by Myles Straw.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s leadoff hitter, the veteran Springer came in batting .185 with two home runs and six runs batted in. He was a big part of Toronto’s run to Game 7 of the 2025 World Series, hitting .309 with 32 homers and 84 RBI in the regular season and the decisive homer in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against Seattle. <\/p>\n
The 2017 World Series MVP with Houston, Springer is in the final season of a six-year deal worth $150 million US, six-year deal. <\/p>\n
A Silver Slugger with the White Sox in 2020, Jimenez hit .290 with no homers and three RBI in 12 games with Toronto. His nine hits were singles. <\/p>\n
Kikuchi battling shoulder tightness <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi left Wednesday’s game against the White Sox in Chicago after two innings with left shoulder tightness. <\/p>\n
The two-time all-star and former Blue Jays left-hander was replaced by lefty Mitch Farris, who had been called up from triple-A Salt Lake before the game after Joey Lucchesi was designated for assignment. <\/p>\n
Kikuchi allowed no runs on two hits and a walk with one strikeout before exiting. His average fastball velocity dropped from 94.9 miles per hour in the first inning to 92.8 in the second. <\/p>\n
A 34-year-old from Japan, Kikuchi was an all-star last season with Los Angeles. He is 0-3 with a 5.81 earned-run average in 31 innings over seven starts. <\/p>\n
Kukuchi is in his eighth major league season and pitched for Seattle, Toronto and Houston before signing as a free agent with the Angels in November 2024. He has career mark of 48-61 with a 4.51 ERA. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles entered Wednesday having lost five straight and nine of 10. <\/p>\n
Crochet has shoulder inflammation <\/p>\n
The Boston Red Sox put left-hander Garrett Crochet on the 15-day injured list because of left shoulder inflammation and recalled utilityman Nate Eaton from triple-A Worcester. <\/p>\n
Last year’s American League Cy Young Award runner-up, when he went 18-5 with a 2.59 ERA, Crochet has a 6.30 ERA through six starts in 2026. <\/p>\n
Crochet (3-3) struck out seven over six shutout innings in Saturday’s 17-1 win at Baltimore, looking every bit the ace Boston traded for in December 2024 and signed to a six-year, $170-million US contract in March 2025. <\/p>\n
The Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora and five coaches following Saturday’s game. <\/p>\n
Crochet’s win over the Orioles came two starts after the ugliest outing of his Red Sox career, an 11-run debacle over 1 2\/3 innings at Minnesota on April 13. <\/p>\n
Crochet has been an AL all-star each of the past two seasons. <\/p>\n
Eaton was batting .292 with three homers and 12 RBI in 27 games at triple-A. He played for Kansas City in 2022 and 2023 and appeared in 41 games for Boston last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-638228","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\/638228","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=638228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}