{"id":653259,"date":"2026-05-07T07:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:26:26","slug":"addison-barger-homers-for-single-a-blue-jays-in-third-rehab-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653259\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Barger homers for Single-A Blue Jays in third rehab outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><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> homered during his third rehab outing for the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays, as he continued his road back to the major leagues on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barger was slotted into the third spot in the order and began the game in right field, before moving to third base in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old went deep in the ninth inning to finish the game 1-for-4, driving in the only run for the Blue Jays in a 7-1 loss against the Bradenton Marauders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barger also homered in his first rehab game for Dunedin as they faced the Jupiter Hammerheads on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bellevue, Wash. native injured both ankles while running down the first baseline on April 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to the injury that put him on the IL, Barger struggled out of the gate with a .053 average, a .279 OPS and two RBIs in eight games to open the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters on Monday that \u201cworst case scenario,\u201d Barger will be active by Friday when the team opens a series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addison Barger homered during his third rehab outing for the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays, as he continued his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[224538,712,49,48,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-653259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-addison-barger-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1118908","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653259","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=653259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}