{"id":325136,"date":"2025-09-19T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/325136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:12:21","slug":"jays-rally-for-44th-comeback-victory-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/325136\/","title":{"rendered":"Jays rally for 44th comeback victory of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays believe in each other and so they always believe they can win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Myles Straw doubled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning as Toronto topped the Baltimore Orioles 6-1 on Friday for their 44th comeback win of the season, the most in the American League. Straw said after the game it\u2019s because the Blue Jays are so closely knit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been there. We\u2019ve done it. We\u2019ve got the guys in the lineup and if it\u2019s not the right guy in the lineup, we got the right guy on the bench to fill in,\u201d said Straw, who went 2 for 3 at the plate with an RBI and a run. \u201cThe whole roster, as it stands, is really, really, really good, and I think we\u2019re all prepared to do what we\u2019ve got to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just enjoy playing baseball with each other.\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: 'Expert says the Blue Jays have a good chance at making the playoffs this year'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758240740_755_AL_BLUE_JAY.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:35<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\tExpert says the Blue Jays have a good chance at making the playoffs this year\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>Jackson Holliday gave Baltimore (69-78) an early lead with an RBI single in the third. Vladimir Guerrero\u2019s RBI double tied it 1-1 for Toronto (85-62) in the fifth and then Straw drove in Isiah Kiner-Falefa to take the lead.<\/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\/09\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie Clement singled in another run in the seventh. Pinch-hitter Daulton Varsho tacked on two more with a double in the eighth followed by another Guerrero RBI for the game\u2019s final score.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a brotherhood here, it\u2019s family,\u201d Straw told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain. You\u2019ve got to be in there to understand, but you guys are around enough, it\u2019s a really good team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re close, and we just believe in each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto leads the New York Yankees by three games in the AL East. The Boston Red Sox trail the Blue Jays by 4 1\/2 games after losing 4-1 to the visiting Yankees later Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers lost to the Miami Marlins 8-2 on Friday, adding to Toronto\u2019s overall lead in the American League.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, starting Blue Jays pitcher Chris Bassitt only threw 75 pitches even though he limited the Orioles to one run on two hits, striking out six over five innings. 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Here\u2019s what to expect\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just where we are in the season,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cIt\u2019s a fully rested bullpen, and I think if (Bassitt) is a little bit more efficient then, great, keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Relievers Ryan Borucki, Braydon Fisher (5-0), Louis Varland, Brendon Little and Yariel Rodriguez combined for four scoreless innings a day after Kevin Gausman threw a complete-game shutout to rest the entire bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s making sure that we\u2019re the healthiest going forward, and making sure, honestly, that we\u2019re healthy through October,\u201d said Bassitt. \u201cWe have a long way to go. We know we have a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we be smart? Obviously, Schneids has final say in all those things of where he kind of draws the line, knowing truly how we feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays believe in each other and so they always believe they can win.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,377,10864,4,125,185,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-325136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-blue-jays","13":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-orioles","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115228072267094150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325136","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=325136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}