DUNEDIN – Dylan Cease was solid in his first spring training and the Toronto Blue Jays had mixed results in a pair of split-squad games Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cease, who signed a seven-year, US$210 million contract with Toronto in the off-season, struck out three and gave up a solo homer over 1 2\/3 innings in Toronto’s 7-5 win over visiting Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Cease struck out Phillies stars Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper in a clean first inning. He was relieved by Jesse Hahn after giving up a solo homer to Bryan De La Cruz with two outs in the second.<\/p>\n
Toronto took their first lead of the game in a four-run sixth inning highlight by Josh Rivera’s two-run homer.<\/p>\n
RJ Schreck, who scored on the Rivera homer, stole home in the seventh to cap the scoring.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez and Alejandro Kirk also drove in runs for Toronto.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Tampa, Fla., the Blue Jays lost 5-1 to the New York Yankees despite a strong start by Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos.<\/p>\n
The veteran right-hander struck out two and walked two over four no-hit innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Yankees scored two in the fifth and Austin Wells made it 4-0 with a two-run homer in the sixth. New York’s Kenedy Corona hit a solo shot in the seventh, and Toronto scored its only run when Carlos Mendoza scored in a fielding error in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Toronto (2-6-1) next faces Tarik Skubal and the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in Lakeland, Fla.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN – Dylan Cease was solid in his first spring training and the Toronto Blue Jays had mixed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2317,2313,2325,2335,81,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,3519,2327,2321,185,2324,2311,5926],"class_list":{"0":"post-598869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-events","12":"tag-baseball-games","13":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","14":"tag-baseball-teams","15":"tag-home-run","16":"tag-kyle-schwarber","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-playoffs","26":"tag-mlb-postseason","27":"tag-no-hitter","28":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","29":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-events","32":"tag-team-sports","33":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-minor-league-players"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598869","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=598869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}