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<\/p>\nBarger was sent for an MRI to determine the extent of his latest health setback.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was kind of weird,\u201d Blue Jays manager John Schneider explained. \u201cHe woke up, and he just had a lack of range of motion.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the time that he\u2019s missed and how important he is to us, we wanted to be careful so we\u2019ll know when he gets back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following Barger\u2019s difficult developments were the continued struggles of left-hander Eric Lauer.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays allowed Spencer Miles to extend past the traditional one or two innings. He wound up going three shutout innings. Tommy Nance followed with a clean fourth.<\/p>\n
Lauer, who went an impressive 9-2 in 15 starts a year ago, has now gone 1-5 in 2026 after Sunday\u2019s outing.<\/p>\n
His 80-pitch, five-inning outing saw him yield three homers, six runs on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to be able to find it earlier,\u201d said Lauer, who gave up four runs in the fifth and the first of two homers by Jo Adell to lead off the sixth.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a combo of getting in bad counts and missed pitches.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the positive side of the ledger was the effort from the 25-year-old Miles. The 38-pitch, three innings were his longest outing since his days with the University of Missouri in 2022.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker toyed with the idea of not telling his young player about his start until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he wanted me to get a good night\u2019s sleep,\u201d Miles said. \u201cI slept, just not as good as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n
His confidence grew after striking out the second batter he faced, future Hall of Famer Mike Trout.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrusting the sinker, trusting my stuff and trying to get that first strike,\u201d Miles said, when asked why his first major league baseball start and 12th appearance went so well.<\/p>\n
He ranks fifth among major-league rookies with a 3.00 earned-run average.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he was obviously really good,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cHis stuff held up. The plan was to see how far he could take us with that lineup.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe continues to check boxes and has good composure. He has good demeanour out there. I really like what I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2026.<\/p>\n
Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barger was sent for an MRI to determine the extent of his latest health setback. \u201cIt was kind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-661204","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\/661204","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=661204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}