Max Scherzer had a clear message for the Toronto Blue Jays after Friday’s 7-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles: They cannot afford to wait for their playoff chances to improve.
TORONTO — Coming off a brutal series loss to the Athletics in Sacramento this week, the Blue Jays badly needed to put that slip-up behind them with Friday’s series opener against Chris Bassitt and the Baltimore Orioles.
The Toronto Blue Jays’ playoff chances are getting slimmer and slimmer. Welcoming the Baltimore Orioles for a three-game weekend series, the Blue Jays dropped the series opener 7-4, falling to 73-75.
The 2026 season has been headlined by young players emerging, but some wily veterans have also had their day. As we head toward the end of the regular season, these 30 players stand out as the biggest surprises on their teams.
After an impressive start to September winning series in Cleveland and Kansas City, the Toronto Blue Jays put together an incredibly disappointing series in Sacramento, dropping two of three to the Athletics.
As injuries piled up in the St. Louis Cardinals' starting rotation, a handful of hurlers popped up as potential fits to be promoted to help to minimize the workload.
The Toronto Blue Jays just have to keep winning. Since dropping two of three to the Kansas City Royals, the Blue Jays have done just that, winning six of their last seven games.
With three weeks remaining in the regular season, the American League still is taking applications for the third and final wild-card spot. The Toronto Blue Jays (71-71) continue to assert themselves as a viable candidate heading into the second contest of a three-game set against the host Kansas City Royals (63-79) on Saturday night.
Max Scherzer made MLB strikeout history during the Toronto Blue Jays’ 7-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, August 30, 2026. Scherzer recorded ten strikeouts, moving into ninth place on MLB’s all-time strikeout list.
The home stretch of the regular season is here. The Toronto Blue Jays have 24 games left to clinch a playoff spot. Last weekend, the Blue Jays swept the Seattle Mariners, a significant step toward making the postseason a possibility.
Max Scherzer was direct when the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher was asked if his impressive start Sunday against the Seattle Mariners was validating. “No, because I knew,” the future Baseball Hall of Famer said in response to the question, via Sportsnet.
Max Scherzer struck out a season-best 10 over seven one-hit innings Sunday afternoon and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Seattle Mariners 7-0 to complete a three-game sweep.
“Can we just play baseball? We’re humans. Can we just be judged by humans? Do we really need to disrupt the game? I think humans are defined by humans,” Max Scherzer said after his first appearance on the mound in Major League Baseball’s automated ball-strike system era back in February last year.
Before being shelled by the Tampa Bay Rays in his most recent start last Wednesday at Tropicana Field, Max Scherzer had put together his best four-start stretch of the entire season.
The Toronto Blue Jays seemed to accept that their postseason hopes in 2026 were looking dim, hence their decision to become a selling ballclub at the trade deadline.
Jesus Sanchez brought the Max Scherzer out of Max Scherzer on Wednesday night. The Toronto Blue Jays righty Scherzer drew the start against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.
After a World Series appearance last season, the Toronto Blue Jays don't have the record they hoped they would have in mid-August. But in a year that has playoff spots up for grabs, the Blue Jays will have every opportunity to return to the postseason.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer doubles as the team’s fantasy football commissioner, and his method for determining the team’s draft order was as inventive as it gets.
Max Scherzer unlocked another milestone in his incredible baseball career. The Toronto Blue Jays veteran pitcher started Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pa., and pitched 5 1/3 innings.