{"id":751979,"date":"2026-06-21T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:34:09","slug":"blue-jays-cubs-series-finale-postponed-due-to-inclement-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751979\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Cubs series finale postponed due to inclement weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outcome of the season series between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> and Chicago Cubs will have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s rubber match of a three-game set was postponed to Aug. 6 due to inclement weather, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlueJays\/status\/2068729296605098074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the teams announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays and Cubs split the first two games, with Chicago rolling to a 16-2 win on Friday before Toronto bounced back with an 8-6 comeback victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Cease was set to get the start for Toronto. It is unclear how the postponement will change the team&#8217;s rotation plan.<\/p>\n<p>However, it does provide a much-needed rest day for the bullpen after Blue Jays starters managed just 5.2 innings in the first two games of the series.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 6 date slides into what had been a scheduled off-day between road series against the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Toronto returns home for a three-game series against the Astros, beginning with starter Shane Bieber&#8217;s season debut on Monday (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outcome of the season series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs will have to wait.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-751979","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\/751979","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=751979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}