{"id":806153,"date":"2026-08-07T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:22","slug":"gamethread-8-7-phillies-vs-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806153\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamethread 8\/7: Phillies vs. Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After taking three out of four from the Nationals, the Phillies welcome the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jays<\/a> to Citizens Bank Park for a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>In Friday night&#8217;s opener, the Phillies&#8217; starter will be <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/9124\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Wheeler<\/a>. Wheeler is coming off two abbreviated starts \u2013 one due to ineffectiveness, the other due to rain \u2013 and the Phillies could really use some length from him.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays turn to <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/11327\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Soriano<\/a>. The Blue Jays acquired the righthander via trade, and this will be his first start with the team. He was 9-6 with a 3.29 ERA with the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Game time is 6:40 and will be televised locally by NBCSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After taking three out of four from the Nationals, the Phillies welcome the Blue Jays to Citizens Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[18619,28630,2808,222473,2821,2324,363,480,99,365,364,61187],"class_list":["post-806153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-florida","tag-jose-soriano","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-the-blue-jays","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-zack-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806153","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=806153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}