{"id":810333,"date":"2026-07-18T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:32:11","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-spencer-miles-after-rough-outing-tough-pill-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810333\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 Spencer Miles after rough outing: \u2018Tough pill to swallow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> manager John Schneider said in a pre-game interview that Spencer Miles<\/a> had been one of the team\u2019s best pitchers so far this season.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Miles then turned in one of his worst performances of the year.<\/p>\n

Miles coughed up six runs on six hits over four innings, taking the loss as Toronto fell to the Chicago White Sox<\/a> 12-4 on Friday. It was his worst outing since May 31 when he gave up six runs over three innings in a 9-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough. It\u2019s a tough pill to swallow,\u201d said Miles after the game. \u201cBut just gotta keep making your pitches and hopefully things fall a different way next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miles had looked solid in the first inning, striking out two, but then things came apart in the second when Chicago racked up five runs. Kyle Teel<\/a>\u2019s one-run double, Braden Montgomery<\/a>\u2019s fielder\u2019s choice and Chase Meidroth<\/a>\u2019s RBI single gave the White Sox a 3-0 lead and set the stage for Sam Antonacci<\/a>\u2019s two-run homer.<\/p>\n

Teel\u2019s double was a looper that went over the head of Blue Jays third baseman Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> and down the left-field line and Meidroth\u2019s hit found a small gap up the middle.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it\u2019s bad luck, obviously, and then I give up the two-run homer on a 3-1 count, threw another four-seamer there,\u201d said Miles. \u201cI don\u2019t know. It\u2019s hard. Just hope for the best and keep throwing strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got ahead well tonight. A bunch of strike ones, got a bunch of people to two strikes, I\u2019ve just got to make a couple better put-away pitches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miles (4-2) saw his earned-run average go from 2.85 to 3.52 in the loss, his 27 appearance this season. He\u2019s been a relief pitcher for most of the season, but has been occasionally deployed as a so-called opener on bullpen days and even had a few proper starts.<\/p>\n

Schneider intended to have Miles pitch three, four or even five innings on Friday as Miles had six days of rest thanks to Major League Baseball\u2019s all-star break and because it allowed the rest of Toronto\u2019s rotation to either keep their usual schedule or get some extra rest.<\/p>\n

Although he was disappointed in the result, Schneider said Miles will just need some small adjustments before his next game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a really good job of getting ahead in counts or flipping count leverage when it\u2019s 1-1 or getting back into counts at 2-1, so I think that was the difference,\u201d said Schneider post-game. \u201cHe\u2019s going to pitch with his fastball and pitch off of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday he was just missing armside.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 18, 2026.<\/p>\n

John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider said in a pre-game interview that Spencer Miles had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-810333","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\/810333","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=810333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}