{"id":281335,"date":"2026-04-23T02:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:41:49","slug":"blue-jays-took-a-six-hour-bus-ride-to-anaheim-and-still-beat-the-angels-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281335\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Took a Six Hour Bus Ride to Anaheim and Still Beat the Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB teams rarely do bus trips on the road. They fly charter, and a six-hour overnight haul through the desert is just not something you see in the regular season. So when the Blue Jays rolled into their Anaheim hotel at 12:30 a.m., it was already one of the stranger travel stories of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

According to Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi<\/a>, the team’s charter plane had a mechanical problem right after their win over the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The joystick was broken. “There was an issue with the joystick, which is pretty important, apparently it’s used for takeoffs and landings,” Schneider said, via ESPN.<\/a> The replacement plane wasn’t coming in from Vancouver until 10 p.m., so the players voted. Bus it was.<\/p>\n

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Schneider said it felt like being back in the minor leagues. “I felt like I was back in the Northwest League. But we made the best of it, we all got here safe, and we’re ready to go.”<\/p>\n

Scherzer lost the vote and preferred to fly, but he found a way to make his feelings known. He printed out a letter and handed it to his manager with a formal kangaroo court summons attached.<\/p>\n

“I got reprimanded by Max for electing to travel that way,” Schneider told reporters, holding up the letter. “So we’re going to go to a trial in kangaroo court. I was like, ‘Max, why don’t you just buy a plane? You’ve got plenty of cash. Most players that were playing today wanted to get out of there.'”<\/p>\n

How the Blue Jays Beat the Angels After Their Wild Bus Trip to Anaheim\"TorontoBlue Jays<\/a> pitcher Dylan Cease<\/a> delivers during the first inning against the Angels | William Liang-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The one thing they got right was Cease. While the rest of the team was on the bus, he was put on a separate commercial flight so he wouldn’t have to endure the overnight ride before his start.<\/p>\n

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Cease went out and struck out 12 batters in five innings, earning his first win as a Blue Jay. He needed 110 pitches to get through those five innings, but he limited the Angels to two runs and closed his outing by punching out Jorge Soler<\/a> with a 99 mph fastball.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. handled the offense. Vlad went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer to center that traveled 430 feet in the third. Lenyn Sosa<\/a> added a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and Nathan Lukes<\/a> came off the bench to knock in two insurance runs late. Toronto<\/a> won 5-2.<\/p>\n

The bus trip is done. The court date with Scherzer is still pending. And honestly, given that final score, Schneider might have the strongest defense in kangaroo court history.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on www.si.com\/mlb\/bluejays\/onsi as Blue Jays Took a Six Hour Bus Ride to Anaheim and Still Beat the Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB teams rarely do bus trips on the road. They fly charter, and a six-hour overnight haul through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,9003,120983,13430,120984,29293,14742,57484,120218,120080,113615,18001,120986,17204,13431,15937,120985],"class_list":{"0":"post-281335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-blue-jay","13":"tag-blue-jays","14":"tag-charter-plane","15":"tag-dylan-cease","16":"tag-john-schneider","17":"tag-jorge-soler","18":"tag-kangaroo-court","19":"tag-lenyn-sosa","20":"tag-nathan-lukes","21":"tag-scherzer","22":"tag-shi-davidi","23":"tag-the-blue-jays","24":"tag-toronto","25":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","26":"tag-william-liang-imagn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}