{"id":852022,"date":"2026-08-09T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852022\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:08:09","slug":"blue-jays-george-springer-out-of-lineup-again-with-shoulder-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; George Springer out of lineup again with shoulder tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springer will sit for Sunday afternoon&#8217;s game (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ 1:30 p.m. ET \/ 10:30 a.m. PT) against the Philadelphia Phillies after he was a late scratch from Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArdenZwelling\/status\/2086478961375064229?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Per Sportsnet&#8217;s Arden Zwelling<\/a>, the Blue Jays are giving Springer another day to manage the shoulder tightness, but there&#8217;s a good chance he&#8217;s available to hit off the bench Sunday and to start Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Springer, 36, has played in 86 games this season, slashing .234\/.317\/.396 in that span to go with 12 homers, 36 RBI and eight stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in other lineup news, the newly acquired and promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/brett-bateman\/9b14e982-9544-4491-8017-5996895a6bae\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"9b14e982-9544-4491-8017-5996895a6bae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brett Bateman<\/a> has been moved up to the leadoff spot for Sunday, which marks just his third\u00a0MLB\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Blue Jays\u00a0will be looking to complete their third series sweep of the season as they wrap up their three-game set against the Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springer will sit for Sunday afternoon&#8217;s game (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ 1:30 p.m. ET \/ 10:30 a.m. PT) against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-852022","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\/852022","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=852022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}