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\n Riley Tirotta delivered a crucial three-run home run in the eighth inning, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a 10-7 comeback victory over Canada’s national team in World Baseball Classic preparation. The game featured multiple lead changes as Canada rallied from a 7-0 deficit before Tirotta’s decisive blast.\n <\/p>\n
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Riley Tirotta delivered when it mattered most, crushing a decisive three-run home run in the eighth inning that powered the Toronto Blue Jays to a thrilling 10-7 comeback win against Canada\u2019s national team Tuesday during World Baseball Classic preparation in Dunedin, Florida.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays built momentum early with Jesus Sanchez contributing two hits while driving in three runs, complemented by Nathan Lukes\u2019 two-run single during a dominant five-run second inning surge.<\/p>\n
Team Canada showed resilience by mounting an impressive rally from a daunting 7-0 early deficit, highlighted by Jacob Robson\u2019s solo home run as part of a four-run eighth inning comeback attempt, before Tirotta\u2019s clutch blast sealed Toronto\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s squad will face Philadelphia Wednesday before beginning World Baseball Classic competition Saturday against Colombia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
Netherlands 8, Orioles 5<\/p>\n
Ceddanne Rafaela dominated the early innings with a three-run homer in the second and a two-run double in the third, leading the Netherlands to victory over Baltimore in Sarasota, Florida.<\/p>\n
Ray-Patrick Didder opened scoring with a first-inning solo blast, finishing with three hits and three runs scored. Ozzie Albies also connected for a second-inning home run for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso maintained his impressive spring performance with a first-inning solo homer, while Jeremiah Jackson also went deep for the Orioles.<\/p>\n
Yankees 11, Panama 1 (8 innings)<\/p>\n
J.C. Escarra\u2019s two-run homer to right-center in the fifth inning highlighted New York\u2019s dominant eight-inning victory over Panama in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n
Ryan McMahon contributed a two-run single in the opening frame, Kenedy Corona collected two hits and scored twice, and Escarra added a sacrifice fly for the Yankees.<\/p>\n
Ruben Tejada managed Panama\u2019s lone RBI with an eighth-inning groundout.<\/p>\n
Mets 6, Nicaragua 3<\/p>\n
Vidal Brujan\u2019s clutch two-run single in the sixth inning propelled New York to victory in Port St. Lucie, Florida.<\/p>\n
Chris Suero connected for a solo homer in the eighth for the Mets, while newcomer Bo Bichette opened the scoring with a first-inning sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Nicaragua responded with solo homers from both Freddy Zamora and Brandon Leyton, with Zamora adding another RBI via sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Pirates 7, Colombia 1<\/p>\n
Jake Mangum led Pittsburgh\u2019s offensive attack with two hits and two RBIs in their victory in Bradenton, Florida.<\/p>\n
Konnor Griffin and Jhostynxon Garcia each delivered RBI doubles for the Pirates, who collected 11 total hits.<\/p>\n
Jesus Castillo prevented a shutout with an RBI double in the ninth inning for Colombia.<\/p>\n
Israel 1, Marlins 0<\/p>\n
Garrett Stubbs\u2019 RBI triple scoring Cole Carrigg in the fourth inning provided the only run Israel needed to defeat Miami in Jupiter, Florida.<\/p>\n
Carrigg and Benjamin Rosengard each recorded hits while Robert Stock impressed with three strikeouts across three scoreless innings for Israel.<\/p>\n
Miami managed only four hits while committing two damaging errors.<\/p>\n
Rays (split squad) 5, Twins 2<\/p>\n
Chandler Simpson\u2019s RBI single sparked a five-run first inning explosion that carried a Tampa Bay split-squad team past Minnesota in Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\n
Logan Davidson, Jacob Melton and Xavier Isaac each contributed RBI singles during the decisive opening frame for the Rays, who totaled eight hits.<\/p>\n
Royce Lewis drove in Brooks Lee with a sacrifice fly for the Twins.<\/p>\n
Rays (split squad) 3, Phillies 1<\/p>\n
Ryan Vilade recorded two hits and scored once as Tampa Bay defeated Philadelphia in Port Charlotte, Florida.<\/p>\n
Vilade crossed home plate on Taylor Walls\u2019 RBI single in the second inning for the Rays, who scored in each of the first three frames.<\/p>\n
Jose Rodriguez delivered an RBI single in the fifth for Philadelphia, which dropped to 3-7-1 in spring training action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley Tirotta delivered a crucial three-run home run in the eighth inning, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[75638,75639,5,377,2554,75632,75640,75634,75635,75633,75636,4,282,70,2553,75637],"class_list":{"0":"post-605453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-102-3","9":"tag-102-3fm","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-blue-jays","12":"tag-bluejays","13":"tag-fine-day","14":"tag-fine-day-102-3","15":"tag-fine-day-fm","16":"tag-fine-day-media","17":"tag-fine-day-radio","18":"tag-have-a-fine-day","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-toronto","21":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","22":"tag-torontobluejays","23":"tag-weller-radio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116170309664453417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605453","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=605453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}