{"id":38465,"date":"2025-05-19T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/38465\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:02:17","slug":"schneider-hopeful-jays-lineup-will-figure-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/38465\/","title":{"rendered":"Schneider hopeful Jays\u2019 lineup will figure it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Part of John Schneider\u2019s mission as the Toronto Blue Jays manager is to be bullish on his lineup, even when his team struggles.<\/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>Despite only two wins in the first six outings of a nine-game homestand, Schneider kept his smile after three close weekend games that netted two losses against the major-league-leading Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, it kind of just meshes together at some point, where you\u2019re getting consistent offensive numbers,\u201d Schneider said 10 minutes after slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. bounced out to second base with a runner on to end the game and hand the visitors a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bullpen was great in this series. You hope you get good starting pitching and it\u2019s any manager\u2019s dream of a winning recipe (of good pitching and offence).\u201d<\/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\/1747648936_551_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>The Blue Jays lost the series opener 5-4, won the middle outing 2-1 with a walk-off single from Ernie Clement, and dropped the finale with the offence failing to knock a ball out of the infield in the final four innings.<\/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=\"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>\u201cIt\u2019s been kind of one extreme or the other, but these guys will figure it out,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cI think it will come together, and when it does, it\u2019ll be a lot less stressful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays (22-24) have entered the second quarter of the season only one win ahead of the 21-25 pace at the 46-game mark last year.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will conclude its homestand with a three-game set against the San Diego Padres beginning on Tuesday. The Padres have been a top team in the National League in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Santander struggles<\/p>\n<p>Newcomer Anthony Santander returned to the Blue Jays\u2019 starting lineup after missing two games with what initially was described as a sore shoulder and changed to a hip ailment.<\/p>\n<p>He went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11185845\/3-kids-dead-19-year-old-drunk-driving-toronto\/\" 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\/401-crash.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t3 kids dead, 19-year-old arrested for drunk driving in Toronto\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11185419\/mistakenly-released-suspect-speaks-out-explains-tiktok-posts\/\" 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\/Mackenzie-Dawn-Hardy-.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018I\u2019m scared\u2019: Mistakenly-released suspect speaks out, explains TikTok posts\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he took some really good swings,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he just missed some balls. That\u2019s kind of been the story of his season. So stick with it and get back to work on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Breathtaking Baddoo<\/p>\n<p>Tigers left fielder Akil Baddoo snuffed out a Blue Jays\u2019 opening-inning rally with two stunning catches.<\/p>\n<p>With two on and none out, he banged into the wall to take away an extra-base knock from Daulton Varsho. Then Baddoo snared a sinking line drive from Alejandro Kirk with a sliding catch. He swiftly regained his footing to catch a napping Bo Bichette at second base for a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Baddoo was asked which play was more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first one,\u201d he said. \u201cI was hoping and praying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Part of John Schneider\u2019s mission as the Toronto Blue Jays manager is to be bullish on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38466,"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-38465","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\/114533927917340940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38465","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=38465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}