{"id":45355,"date":"2025-05-22T04:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/45355\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T04:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:12:16","slug":"blue-jays-stick-with-it-in-14-0-rout-of-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/45355\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays stick with it in 14-0 rout of Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays had a refrain in their dugout on Wednesday night: \u201cjust keep swinging it.\u201d<\/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>Toronto batters were drilling the ball, maxing out with Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\u2019s 112 m.p.h. ground out in the first inning, but the Blue Jays\u2019 good contact wasn\u2019t landing fair. That changed with Nathan Lukes\u2019s two-run homer in the fifth inning for a 2-0 lead that exploded into a 14-0 rout of the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Lukes said that the way Toronto was hitting the ball, it was just a matter of time before the runs would start to pile up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all thought it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s baseball for you. It doesn\u2019t matter how hard you hit it, it matters if you are able to touch first base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo finally, it happened. Put some hits together and just good things happen.\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\/1747887134_440_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>Daulton Varsho\u2019s grand slam highlighted a seven-run eighth inning as the Blue Jays (24-24) blew the game wide open with a total of 12 runs in the seventh and eighth.<\/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>Bo Bichette drove in a run with a fielder\u2019s choice in the seventh and added an RBI single in the eighth. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer each had an RBI single before pinch-hitter Jonatan Clase added a two-run double in the five-run seventh. Addison Barger drove in a run with a double and Ernie Clement added another score with a single.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the Blue Jays, that was the lineup, those were the hitters that we are,\u201d said Lukes, who had his fourth homer of the season after having only one in 2024. \u201cHopefully we just keep on running with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto manager John Schneider said his team saw the kind of hard contact they were getting off of San Diego starter Randy Vasquez and that they just had to keep at it.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vibe is, just keep swinging it,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cThat\u2019s part of the game, sometimes. 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That clearly wasn\u2019t the case in Wednesday\u2019s win as he struck out nine and gave up just three hits over seven scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I had a really good bullpen in between starts and kind of made some mechanical adjustments and some grip adjustments,\u201d said Gausman. \u201cIt definitely showed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the second game in a row where Toronto\u2019s starting pitcher went deep into the game. Chris Bassitt threw six scoreless innings in the Blue Jays\u2019 3-0 win over San Diego on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 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 The Toronto Blue Jays had a refrain in their dugout on Wednesday night: \u201cjust keep swinging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45356,"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-45355","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\/114549538465918744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45355","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=45355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}