TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays look to build on a captivating Major League Baseball season when they host the Athletics tonight in their 2026 season opener.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays took a lead into the ninth inning of Game 7 of last season’s World Series before losing 5-4 in 11 innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
The defending American League champions bolstered their pitching staff in the off-season with the additions of Dylan Cease, Cody Ponce and Tyler Rogers, and got another potentially big bat in Japan’s Kazuma Okamoto.<\/p>\n
They also have a big hole to fill after star shortstop Bo Bichette left for the New York Mets in free agency.<\/p>\n
Kevin Gausman will get his first opening-day start in his five-year tenure with the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
The Athletics will counter with Luis Severino.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays look to build on a captivating Major League Baseball season when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2313,2325,57,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,63,2327,2321,185,2339,2324,2311,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-646229","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-playoffs-and-champions","13":"tag-baseball-teams","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-playoffs","24":"tag-mlb-postseason","25":"tag-oakland-athletics","26":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","27":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-competitions","30":"tag-sports-events","31":"tag-team-sports","32":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"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\/646229","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=646229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}