{"id":90113,"date":"2025-08-23T01:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90113\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T01:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:55:03","slug":"blue-jays-shane-bieber-dominant-in-long-awaited-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90113\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Shane Bieber dominant in long-awaited return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 22, 2025, 09:08 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40912\/shane-bieber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Bieber<\/a> struck out nine over six dominant innings of one-run ball in his debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> and first appearance in 16 months on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander allowed two hits and hit a batter in his 87-pitch outing against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a>, leaving with the Blue Jays ahead 5-1. He retired 12 straight after allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5073992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Sanoja<\/a>&#8216;s solo homer in the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>It was Bieber&#8217;s first major league appearance since April 2, 2024, when he experienced elbow discomfort and subsequently underwent Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays acquired the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> on July 31. Bieber had done four rehab outings with the Guardians before the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Bieber spent his first seven seasons with Cleveland. In the 60-game 2020 season, Bieber finished 8-1 with a league low 1.63 ERA and led the AL in strikeouts with 122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 22, 2025, 09:08 PM ET MIAMI &#8212; Shane Bieber struck out nine over six dominant innings of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-90113","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\/90113","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=90113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}