{"id":622993,"date":"2026-03-14T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:50:15","slug":"varsho-homers-twice-drives-in-five-as-blue-jays-down-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622993\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsho homers twice, drives in five as Blue Jays down Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/R2BX5XQIU5H35HQBHXE7VMYPOU.jpg?auth=874a5dfc591729060c5d47d7f8954e137c6d99fd5ae5019a521e276f7214c99a&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; Daulton Varsho hits a run-scoring fielder&#8217;s choice against Canada pitcher Noah Skirrow earlier this month.Chris O&#8217;Meara\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Daulton Varsho hit two homers and drove in five runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 6-1 in spring training action Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Varsho hit a two-run homer off Twins starter Mick Abel in the first inning and a three-run shot off Zak Kent in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The centre fielder has driven in eight runs over his past two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Eloy Jim\u00e9nez provided the rest of Toronto\u2019s offence with a solo homer in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Former Blue Jay Alan Roden drove in Minnesota\u2019s only run with a fourth-inning single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Cody Ponce picked up the win for the Jays with two strikeouts in two scoreless innings. He got into some trouble with four walks and two hits and needed to get out of a bases-loaded jam in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Toronto (8-10) plays host to Detroit on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; Daulton Varsho hits a run-scoring fielder&#8217;s choice against Canada pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[7508,7493,5,7509,377,2554,5965,5961,7510,1465,7488,7499,7500,7495,7489,7487,6589,7506,7504,7498,7492,7521,7490,7491,7497,7494,5826,1358,7511,4,5755,7516,7517,7519,7514,7518,7512,7515,5719,7502,7503,1239,7501,7513,317,7505,282,70,2553,7507,7496,4750,6984,7520],"class_list":{"0":"post-622993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bc","12":"tag-blue-jays","13":"tag-bluejays","14":"tag-breaking-news","15":"tag-breaking-news-video","16":"tag-british-columbia","17":"tag-canada","18":"tag-canada-news","19":"tag-canada-sports","20":"tag-canada-sports-news","21":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","22":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","23":"tag-canadian-news","24":"tag-economy","25":"tag-education","26":"tag-environment","27":"tag-federal-government","28":"tag-foreign-news","29":"tag-globe-and-mail","30":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","31":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","32":"tag-government","33":"tag-life-news","34":"tag-lifestyle","35":"tag-local-news","36":"tag-manitoba","37":"tag-mlb","38":"tag-national-news","39":"tag-new-brunswick","40":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","41":"tag-northwest-territories","42":"tag-nova-scotia","43":"tag-nunavut","44":"tag-ontario","45":"tag-pei","46":"tag-photos","47":"tag-political-news","48":"tag-political-opinion","49":"tag-politics","50":"tag-politics-news","51":"tag-quebec","52":"tag-sports-news","53":"tag-technology","54":"tag-toronto","55":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","56":"tag-torontobluejays","57":"tag-travel","58":"tag-trudeau","59":"tag-us-news","60":"tag-world-news","61":"tag-yukon"},"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\/622993","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=622993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}