{"id":613814,"date":"2026-03-08T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:34:19","slug":"barger-drives-in-three-runs-as-toronto-split-squads-earn-shutout-victories-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613814\/","title":{"rendered":"Barger drives in three runs as Toronto split-squads earn shutout victories | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNEDIN &#8211; Addison Barger hit a solo shot and added a two-run single to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in a split-squad game at TD Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>Barger opened the scoring in the second inning with his second homer of the spring. He drove in George Springer and Nathan Lukes to make it 3-0 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman allowed three hits over 3 1\/3 innings. He had three strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the other split-squad game, Toronto shut out the Baltimore Orioles 1-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Sanchez drove in Arjun Nimmala in the third inning for the game&#8217;s lone run.<\/p>\n<p>Starter Cody Ponce threw three hitless innings for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN &#8211; Addison Barger hit a solo shot and added a two-run single to power the Toronto Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2313,2325,2413,389,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,2321,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-613814","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-finals","13":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","14":"tag-baseball-teams","15":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-kevin-gausman","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-seasons-in-american-sport","28":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","29":"tag-sports"},"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\/613814","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=613814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}