JUPITER – George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Monday in a six-inning Grapefruit League game at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.<\/p>\n
Springer also scored on a wild pitch in the third inning before Daulton Varsho hit a two-run double. Myles Straw added an RBI groundout that capped a four-run inning.<\/p>\n
Otto Lopez and Daniel Johnson homered for Miami, with Johnson\u2019s solo shot in the fifth pulling the Marlins within a run.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays reliever Jesse Hahn earned the save after right-fielder RJ Schreck threw out Chris Arroyo at the plate in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Also Monday, the Blue Jays optioned outfielder Jonatan Clase to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons roster.<\/p>\n
The team also assigned left-handers Javen Coleman and Michael Plassmeyer, catcher Geovanny Planchart and infielders Sean Keys, Charles McAdoo and Arjun Nimmala to minor-league camp.<\/p>\n
Toronto (9-12) next hosts the Baltimore Orioles (8-11) on Wednesday in Dunedin, Fla.<\/p>\n
The Jays open the regular season at Rogers Centre on March 27 against the visiting Athletics.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 16, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER – George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2313,2325,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2327,2321,185,2324,2311,5926,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-627089","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-home-run","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-october-in-sports","27":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","28":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-events","31":"tag-team-sports","32":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-minor-league-players","33":"tag-world-series"},"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\/627089","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=627089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}