{"id":26723,"date":"2025-05-14T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26723\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:04:16","slug":"daulton-varsho-has-never-hit-the-ball-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26723\/","title":{"rendered":"Daulton Varsho has never hit the ball harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Daulton Varsho has never swung the bat harder and it\u2019s all thanks to a small adjustment at the plate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Varsho had a three-run blast in the eighth inning for a short-lived Blue Jays lead and a solo home run earlier in the game as Toronto fell to the Tampa Bay Rays 11-9 on Tuesday. Varsho\u2019s first home run of the night had an exit velocity of 113.9 m.p.h. and the three-run bomb was 113.6 m.p.h., for the two hardest hits of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just trying to be short and quick to the baseball,\u201d said Varsho on how he has found more power this season. \u201cThe big extra moves, that\u2019s when it comes off softer and not as on a line for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I can continue to do that, the better opportunity I have to get hits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Blue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_6P_BLUE_JAYS_IN_SEATTLE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:22<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Varsho\u2019s three-run homer gave Toronto (20-21) a 7-6 lead in the eighth before Tampa scored five runs in the ninth to re-take the lead. Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had back-to-back RBI doubles to cut the Rays\u2019 advantage to two-runs but Varsho popped out to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like my at bats, little frustrated on the last one,\u201d said Varsho. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s one of those nights where all the way up and down through lineup we had a good game and it\u2019s just frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varsho missed the first 28 games of Toronto\u2019s season as he recovered from shoulder surgery in September. Although he\u2019s hitting just .222 in his 10 games this season, he has five home runs and has driven in 11 runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that as he goes along in his career, he\u2019s understanding who he is and what he can handle, and he\u2019s just kind of leaning into it.\u201d said Blue Jays manager John Schneider. \u201cYou know, confidence is a real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re at this stage in his career, you make some adjustments and you have some confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11175291\/parkinsons-disease-linked-living-near-golf-course-study\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-1459979756.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tParkinson\u2019s risk higher for those living close to a golf course: study\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11177231\/chikungunya-older-adults-travel-vaccine-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-1242515762.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOlder adults in U.S. urged to skip this travel vaccine. What about Canada?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DON\u2019T HASSLE THE HOFF \u2014 Closer Jeff Hoffman still has Schneider\u2019s full support, despite giving up five runs in the ninth inning, including a towering grand slam to Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis stuff has been consistent all year, you know?\u201d said Schneider, noting that Caminero\u2019s homer came on a slider high and inside that was out of the strike zone. \u201cHe\u2019s done more than his fair share of helping us win games so far. I\u2019ve got nothing but trust in him going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Hoffman earned his eighth and ninth saves of the season over the weekend in Seattle, he had two bad outings last week in Anaheim, Calif. He gave up three runs on consecutive nights as the Los Angeles Angels beat Toronto 8-3 on May 6 and 6-4 on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman\u2019s record dropped to 3-2 with Tuesday\u2019s loss and his earned-run average ballooned to 6.05.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Daulton Varsho has never swung the bat harder and it\u2019s all thanks to a small adjustment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,377,10864,4,185,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-26723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114507275780502135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}