{"id":780603,"date":"2026-07-04T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780603\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:11:11","slug":"blue-jays-hope-george-springer-can-return-monday-vs-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780603\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays hope George Springer can return Monday vs. Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are giving their leadoff hitter some more time to return to the lineup. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/george-springer\/7f92278a-91c4-4c25-9e75-eaff3aed89b3\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7f92278a-91c4-4c25-9e75-eaff3aed89b3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">George Springer<\/a> was transferred to the family medical emergency list after his paternity leave expired, manager John Schneider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2073486166310240292\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2073486166310240292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Schneider said everybody is doing well, but Springer needed some more time &#8220;tying up some loose ends,&#8221; and the hope is that the designated hitter could return Monday in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Springer and his wife, Charlise, announced the birth of a baby boy on Canada Day, their third child.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has eight home runs in 63 games in 2026 and is slashing .221\/.308\/.373 with 56 strikeouts and 28 walks.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will play the second game of its weekend series against the Seattle Mariners before playing the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays are giving their leadoff hitter some more time to return to the lineup. George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-780603","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\/780603","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=780603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}