{"id":148574,"date":"2026-02-28T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:39:12","slug":"new-york-yankees-vs-toronto-blue-jays-paul-blackburn-vs-jose-berrios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148574\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays: Paul Blackburn vs. Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">We\u2019re in spring training proper now, with less than a week to go before the World Baseball Classic opens, and players on both of the teams squaring off today will represent their countries. Both the Yankees and the Blue Jays will send multiple participants to the WBC, but in the meantime the two AL East hopefuls will face off at Steinbrenner Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Paul Blackburn gets the ball in his second spring appearance, hoping to prove himself in a bullpen role with the MLB club. He didn\u2019t have a great, albeit brief, stint with the club last year after coming over from Queens, but Matt Blake has worked some success with sinker-cutter combos before, and that\u2019s Blackburn\u2019s primary offering.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos has had a rocky few months. He was on the IL for the Blue Jays\u2019 World Series run and actually abandoned the club, returning home to Puerto Rico. This caused much discourse about the veteran\u2019s commitment to the team, and in the midst of his apologies, Berr\u00edos was informed he was one of several Puerto Rican players who wasn\u2019t able to be insured for the WBC, and he\u2019ll miss the tournament. As he\u2019s still rehabbing his right bicep, the time in camp might end up the best for him personally, but Puerto Rico is a proud baseball machine and missing what is likely his last Classic must be weighing on Berr\u00edos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We get a pretty representative lineup today, with only Spencer Jones, who\u2019s batting ninth, expected to not be on the Opening Day roster. Trent Grisham, Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. form a very powerful top three. Note that utilityman Amed Rosario was originally in the starting nine at third base but was scratched about an hour before first pitch, with NRI Jonathan Ornelas taking his place. This reportedly would\u2019ve been Rosario\u2019s last start before heading off to join Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, so an injury could be in play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">How to watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Location: George M Steinbrenner Field \u2014 Tampa, FL<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">First pitch: 1:05 pm ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TV broadcast: YES<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Online stream: Gotham Sports App<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For updates, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinstripealley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pinstripealley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>, and like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pinstripealley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re in spring training proper now, with less than a week to go before the World Baseball Classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10094,36097,46891,52249,62349,62347,62346,9,11,10,321,62345,50806,19217,44865,62348,5390,40723],"class_list":{"0":"post-148574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-amed-rosario","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","12":"tag-jonathan-ornelas","13":"tag-jose-berrios","14":"tag-kim-klement","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-news","18":"tag-new-york-yankees","19":"tag-paul-blackburn","20":"tag-phillies","21":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","22":"tag-spencer-jones","23":"tag-steinbrenner-field","24":"tag-trent-grisham","25":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}