CLEARWATER – Toronto starter CJ Van Eyk gave up six runs in 2 1\/3 innings as the Blue Jays fell 8-5 to the Philadelphia Phillies in spring training baseball action Friday.<\/p>\n
Trea Turner’s double drove in a pair in Philadelphia’s three-run second inning.<\/p>\n
The Phillies tacked four more on Van Eyk and reliever Angel Bastardo in the third, including a solo home run by Alec Bohm.<\/p>\n
Centre fielder Daulton Varsho drove in three of Toronto’s four runs over the fourth and fifth innings with a groundout and a two-run double, but the Jays would get no closer.<\/p>\n
Toronto catcher Tyler Heineman hit a solo home run in the first inning and scored two runs.<\/p>\n
Canadian Zach Pop pitched a scoreless sixth inning for the Phillies to earn a hold.<\/p>\n
Toronto (8-10) faces the Minnesota Twins on Friday afternoon in Dunedin, Fla.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER – Toronto starter CJ Van Eyk gave up six runs in 2 1\/3 innings as the Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[1651,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2313,2325,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,25,2326,2327,2321,185,2324,2311,5926,2312,23295],"class_list":["post-620800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-alec-bohm","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-home-run","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-run-baseball","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-sports","tag-sports-events","tag-team-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-minor-league-players","tag-turf-sports","tag-zach-pop"],"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\/620800","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=620800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}