{"id":139776,"date":"2025-09-07T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:49:07","slug":"blue-jays-bo-bichette-out-of-starting-lineup-for-series-finale-vs-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139776\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette out of starting lineup for series finale vs. Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> shortstop Bo Bichette<\/a> was not in the lineup for Sunday\u2019s series finale against the New York Yankees a day after colliding with Austin Wells on a play at the plate.<\/p>\n

Bichette was thrown out in the sixth inning of Saturday\u2019s 3-1 loss by Cody Bellinger\u2019s 95.3 m.p.h. one-hop throw from right field when he attempted to score on a single by Nathan Lukes.<\/p>\n

He hobbled off the field with the assistance of a trainer after colliding with Wells\u2019 shin guard. The game was delayed by rain for nearly two hours and during the delay, X-rays came back negative and Bichette struck out in his final at-bat Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t look great, but we\u2019re at the point where if you can play, you can play,\u201d manager John Schneider said Saturday. \u201cBo understands that and everyone understands that. I don\u2019t think it needed stitches or anything but there was a lot going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bichette is third in the major leagues with a .311 average. He has 18 homers and leads Toronto with 93 RBIs in 139 games this season.<\/p>\n

Bichette also leads the majors with 181 hits and 44 doubles and is hitting .418 (33-for-79) during a 20-game on-base streak.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement started at shortstop for the Blue Jays, who began Sunday with a three-game lead over the Yankees in the AL East.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement gets the start at shortstop in Bichette’s absence, batting fifth. Coverage begins at 1:00 p.m. ET\/ 10 a.m. PT on Sportsnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette was not in the lineup for Sunday\u2019s series finale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-139776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}