{"id":33353,"date":"2025-05-17T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33353\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:50:33","slug":"santander-stays-on-blue-jays-bench-in-close-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33353\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander stays on Blue Jays bench in close game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider resisted the temptation to employ Anthony Santander as a ninth-inning pinch-hitter on Friday.<\/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>Schneider gave his struggling slugger a day off partly to rest a sore shoulder and partly to reset after a series against the Tampa Bay Rays in which he went 1 for 12 with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis shoulder was a little bit cranky still,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cSo I didn\u2019t want to force him in there if he couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With two on and two out, and the Blue Jays behind a run, Santander was kept on the bench in favour of pinch-hitter Ernie Clement.<\/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\/1747468231_584_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>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Clement grounded out to Detroit reliever Beau Brieske for the final out for a 5-4 win for the American League-leading Tigers.<\/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>The 30-year-old Santander went 0 for 3 against Brieske in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider wanted to give his newcomer a complete day off to rest and reset.<\/p>\n<p>The free-agent acquisition has struggled with a .187 average, five homers and 16 RBI after a career-best 44 homers in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of wanted to stay away from him, unless it was something like Myles Straw got a migraine, too,\u201d said Schneider, whose starting right-fielder, Nathan Lukes, was forced out of the game with a migraine.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Straw replaced Lukes in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider felt that because Santander didn\u2019t go through his usual preparation to play, it wasn\u2019t fair to put him into the ninth-inning heat.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11183559\/canada-post-cupw-negotiations-industrial-inquiry-commission\/\" 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\/6393e31f36ef29e812bc0cffef5f522db31242e1954cb6b58722685959b90e2c.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada Post \u2018effectively insolvent\u2019 as strike looms. Report suggests fixes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11183327\/adriana-smith-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-georgia-abortion-ban\/\" 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-462762364.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPregnant, brain-dead Georgia woman kept alive due to state abortion ban\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a double negative if that makes sense,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Varsho homers<\/p>\n<p>In just 12 games, Daulton Varsho has snatched the Blue Jays\u2019 home-run lead from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Varsho belted a two-run shot in the sixth inning for his sixth of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good for him, better for us,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Francis\u2019 fight<\/p>\n<p>Toronto starter Bowden Francis has given up 14 home runs this season after the two dingers by Riley Greene and Zach McKinstry. It\u2019s the most allowed by a pitcher in Major League Baseball so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider resisted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,10864,2554,4,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-33353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114522084173608222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353","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=33353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}