{"id":856882,"date":"2026-08-13T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:44:09","slug":"blue-jays-recall-rhp-lazaro-estrada-place-brendon-little-on-paternity-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856882\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays recall RHP Lazaro Estrada, place Brendon Little on paternity list"},"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> recalled the right-handed reliever from triple-A Buffalo on Thursday, the team announced. <\/p>\n<p>Estrada will join the bullpen in place of <a data-player=\"914a72c0-40fc-4f4b-941f-9342bff20a6d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/brendon-little\/914a72c0-40fc-4f4b-941f-9342bff20a6d\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brendon Little<\/a>, who was placed on the paternity list.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada, 27, last appeared in Sunday&#8217;s 7-6 extra-innings defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies and took the loss after giving up two runs (one earned) on three hits. In seven relief appearances with Toronto this season, he has a 4.50 ERA and 1.250 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Little, 30, was demoted to triple-A after some early-season struggles but has been much improved since his return to the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Over his last five appearances with the Blue Jays, the lefty reliever has given up just one earned run and struck out four. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto will send Max Scherzer to the mound as it looks to complete a four-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox on Thursday (2:30 p.m. ET \/ 11:30 a.m. PT, Sportsnet and Sportsnet+).<\/p>\n<p>Kazuma Okamoto will make his return to third base and bat fifth, while George Springer is back in the starting lineup after a day off as the DH and will hit fourth. Outfielder Brett Bateman comes out of the lineup after making six consecutive starts. <\/p>\n<p>After an 11-5 stretch, the Blue Jays sit just 1.5 games out of the final wild-card spot in the American League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays recalled the right-handed reliever from triple-A Buffalo on Thursday, the team announced. Estrada will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-856882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856882","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=856882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}