{"id":215184,"date":"2026-06-10T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:48:07","slug":"jhoan-duran-blows-save-for-first-time-this-season-as-philadelphia-phillies-lose-to-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215184\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhoan Duran blows save for first time this season as Philadelphia Phillies lose to Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2064522643789730257\/video\/1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brandon Valenzuela hit a game-winning single<\/a> in the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays scored twice off Jhoan Duran to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Duran (1-3) blew a save opportunity for the first time this season after starting 16 for 16.<\/p>\n<p>Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez reached on an infield single to start the ninth and was replaced by Myles Straw. Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango followed with a single, sending Straw to third. Daulton Varsho replaced Pi\u00f1ango and stole second before Straw scored the tying run on a wild pitch, with Varsho advancing to third. Valenzuela lined the next pitch into left field to score Varsho.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez also homered off Zack Wheeler, his seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s rally came after Bryson Stott gave Philadelphia the lead with an RBI double in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper walked to begin the ninth against Louis Varland (3-1), who hadn&#8217;t allowed an earned run since April 25 against Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p>Brandon Marsh struck out and Harper advanced on Alec Bohm&#8217;s grounder before Stott hit an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>Trea Turner doubled in the first, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Marsh&#8217;s two-out double.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto tied it when S\u00e1nchez homered in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler allowed one run and six hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s Dylan Cease struck out 11 in six innings in his return from a left hamstring injury. The Phillies swung and missed 29 times on 50 swings against Cease.<\/p>\n<p>Activated off the 15-day injured list before the game, Cease allowed one run and three hits. He walked one and threw 93 pitches, 60 for strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Cease left a May 24 start against the Pirates because of a sore left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Max Scherzer (1-3, 9.64 ERA) is expected to come off the injured list Wednesday to start against Phillies LHP Jesus Luzardo (4-4, 4.56).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Valenzuela hit a game-winning single in the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays scored twice off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11258,11199,69,71,70,1425,726,22121,11012,51892,8743],"class_list":["post-215184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bryce-harper","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-trea-turner","tag-zack-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}