{"id":700687,"date":"2026-05-29T03:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:19:16","slug":"blue-jays-eke-out-win-over-sharp-bassitt-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700687\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays eke out win over sharp Bassitt, Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

BALTIMORE \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> were expecting Chris Bassitt to be fired up when he took the mound against his former team on Thursday evening at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m expecting him to want to throw a no-hitter,\u201d quipped Blue Jays manager John Schneider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe rises to the occasion,\u201d said right-hander Jeff Hoffman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bassitt, who signed a one-year deal with Baltimore in the off-season after three successful seasons in Toronto, would frequently pop in on hitters\u2019 meetings with his old club. He\u2019s as observant as anybody and loved to chat with Blue Jays teammates about how they were being attacked in the box.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn’t be surprised if he pitches great,\u201d said Kevin Gausman before the game. \u201cHe knows these guys better than most of the teams he’s facing and knows their weaknesses and so you know he’s gonna try to exploit those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bassitt did just that during his outing, stifling the visitors over his six strong frames. However, the Blue Jays were able to get to the Orioles bullpen, with Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango<\/a> drawing a bases-loaded walk to plate the go-ahead run in a tight, 2-1 win during the opener of a four-game set between the AL East rivals. With the win, the Blue Jays improved to 28-29 on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bassitt allowed just one run, an Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez<\/a> homer, on four hits over six innings, walking one and striking out two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The right-hander has struggled this season, entering Thursday\u2019s contest with a 5.51 ERA, yet looked like the best version of himself against the Blue Jays. He filled up the zone with his six pitches and kept the hard contact to a minimum.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Blue Jays left-hander Patrick Corbin<\/a> matched Bassitt during his outing, allowing just a solo homer to Coby Mayo over his five-plus innings. Corbin put runners on second and third base in both the first and fifth innings yet bore down and made pitches to escape those jams unharmed. He allowed four hits, walking one and striking out four.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corbin has been an important member of a Blue Jays rotation that\u2019s been beset by injury. Over 10 starts, he owns an impressive 3.65 ERA across 49.1 innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen provided four innings of scoreless relief, buying enough time for the offence to come through. George Springer led off the eighth inning with a double off Orioles right-hander Anthony Nunez and walks to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Daulton Varsho loaded the bases, setting up Pi\u00f1ango to push across the winning run with his own walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays were expecting Chris Bassitt to be fired up when he took the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-700687","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\/700687","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=700687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}