Brandon Valenzuela hit his first career home run, a two-run blast that capped a five-run fourth inning Friday night and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Minnesota Twins 10-4.
After beating the Dodgers in the final game of their most recent three-game set, the Blue Jays continued their momentum into Friday on Jumpin’ George Springer bobblehead giveaway night, beating the Minnesota Twins 10-4.
It has been less than an ideal start for the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been bleeding due to injuries, specifically the starting rotation. While pitchers are dropping like flies, and the Jays are struggling to win games, there have been highlights lost in the chaos.
There were a few firsts in the Toronto Blue Jays farm system on Thursday. Overall, the Blue Jays’ affiliates played five games on Thursday. Two of those games belonged to the Dunedin Blue Jays, as they finished Tuesday’s postponed game.
Some things appear clear when it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting. The PED guys aren’t going to get in, or at least the hitters, and the rubric for starting pitchers has to be reconstructed on the fly.
The Toronto Blue Jays have had an unlucky start to the 2026 season — injuries to both pitching and positional players left them dropping six games in a row this past week.
The 2026 Major League Baseball season is over two weeks old. It hasn’t been the greatest of starts for the Toronto Blue Jays, who have a 5-7 record through their first 12 games.
The Toronto Blue Jays finally snapped their six-game losing streak on Wednesday with a win against the Los Angeles Dodgers. It has been a rough start for the reigning American League champions, yet there is reason for optimism.
The Toronto Blue Jays are looking to build some momentum after a tough six game stretch. The Jays dropped three games against the Chicago White Sox on the road before facing the Dodgers at home, winning the finale to salvage the series in the 2025 World Series rematch.
TORONTO — Jeff Hoffman hopes to be a better version of himself during his second season as the Blue Jays’ closer. “There were too many outings last year where I walked away not happy,” said Hoffman while evaluating his first stint as a full-time closer prior to converting his second save of the season against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.
With the Toronto Blue Jays' starting rotation holding on by a thread thanks to a rash of injuries, the club is now set to turn to a new face in hopes of stabilizing the unit while they await the returns of the likes of Trey Yesavage, Shane Bieber, José Berríos and others.
Speed is more important than ever in MLB with recent rule changes promoting stolen bases. These were the 25 fastest players for the 2026 season, as recorded by the Statcast sprint speed metric.
The Toronto Blue Jays needed a hero Wednesday night, and the club turned to Davis Schneider to get the job done. With the club riding a losing streak and the Dodgers just a few innings away from sweeping the series, the coaching staff turned to Schneider in the bottom of the seventh inning to pinch hit for Nathan Lukes at the bottom of the order.
The brutal .184 batting average with 14 strikeouts through a dozen games this season has been concerning for George Springer and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Heading into the 2026 season, it didn’t seem like the Toronto Blue Jays needed starting pitching help. The front office added two arms to the rotation in Dylan Cease and Cody Ponce, had some backup arms in Eric Lauer and Bowden Francis at the ready, and also some insurance depth in the minors in Adam Macko and Ricky Tiedemann.
In the Toronto Blue Jays series wrap-up with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Davis Schneider stepped up when it mattered the most. While he didn't record a hit, he put up productive at-bats coming off the bench. In the 7th inning, he came up with a pinch-hit walk, followed by scoring a run to tie the game in the 8th inning.
The Toronto Blue Jays snapped a six-game losing streak with a cathartic (and maybe a little painful) 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Wednesday’s win was a step in the right direction for the Blue Jays, they’re still working their way through a slow offensive start to 2026.
The Toronto Blue Jays ended two streaks on Wednesday and will try to stop another streak Friday night when they host the Minnesota Twins. The Blue Jays snapped a six-game losing streak two days ago with a scruffy 4-3 win that also stopped the Los Angeles Dodgers' five-game winning streak.
Way back when Shohei Ohtani hit free agency for the first time, the Toronto Blue Jays made a bid at adding the two-way superstar before he ultimately chose the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Toronto Blue Jays are in rough shape entering their fifth series of the season On Wednesday, they managed to snap a six-game skid, where they had went 1-7 over their last eight dating back to Cody Ponce’s injury.
The Toronto Blue Jays starting rotation could be getting some reinforcements sooner rather than later. On Thursday afternoon, Trey Yesavage made his second rehab start with the Dunedin Blue Jays.
Very little going on today, except a couple of minor MiLB notes: Trey Yesavage went 2.2 innings for Dunedin this afternoon. The surface results, 4 earned on 4 hits and a walk, aren’t great, but all four hits were singles.
Left-hander Josh Fleming and right-hander Austin Voth have both cleared waivers and elected free agency. Both were designated for assignment by the Blue Jays this week.
It seems like every day there’s a new pitcher either being placed on the injured list or called up from Triple-A for the Toronto Blue Jays. And while we’re incredibly early on in the season, it’s nice knowing that every time Kevin Gausman takes the ball for the Blue Jays, fans know what they’re going to get.
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Double-A affiliate had one of the wildest innings imaginable during their game on Tuesday. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats scored 10 runs in the second inning on just one hit during Tuesday’s game against the Portland Sea Dogs at Hadlock Field in Portland, Me.
John Schneider made sure to get more than his money’s worth during Tuesday’s game. The Toronto Blue Jays manager Schneider was ejected Tuesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers for arguing a balk that was called on Toronto pitcher Kevin Gausman.