{"id":237227,"date":"2025-10-19T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:25:07","slug":"george-springer-in-torontos-lineup-for-game-6-of-alcs-two-days-after-hit-on-knee-by-95-6-mph-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237227\/","title":{"rendered":"George Springer in Toronto’s lineup for Game 6 of ALCS, two days after hit on knee by 95.6 mph pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 George Springer<\/a> was set to lead off as the designated hitter for Toronto in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series against Seattle on Sunday night with the Blue Jays<\/a> attempting to rebound from a 3-2 deficit in the best-of-seven matchup.<\/p>\n

Springer was hit on the right kneecap by a 95.6 mph pitch from Bryan Woo<\/a> in the seventh inning of Toronto\u2019s 6-2 loss in Game 5 at Seattle on Friday and left the game.<\/p>\n

X-ray and a CT scan did not reveal a fracture. Manager John Schneider said Springer was able to test his knee by running at a workout on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to him last night, texted him this morning and he was like \u2018Stop asking, I\u2019m good,\u2019\u201d Schneider said of his exchange with Springer.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Springer, a four-time All-Star and the 2017 World Series<\/a> MVP with Houston, is hitting .256 with three home runs and five doubles this postseason. His 22 career playoff homers are tied with Bernie Williams for fourth.<\/p>\n

Springer\u2019s 42 extra base hits in 76 postseason games are fifth most, 15 behind Derek Jeter’s<\/a> record. Springer had at least one extra base hit in six consecutive postseason games, one shy of Devon White\u2019s 1993 Blue Jays record.<\/p>\n

Springer entered 14 for 49 in 11 regular season and postseason games against the Mariners<\/a> this season, with six doubles, three homers and eight RBIs.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 George Springer was set to lead off as the designated hitter for Toronto in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-237227","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\/237227","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=237227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}