{"id":648381,"date":"2026-03-28T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648381\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:00:55","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-and-athletics-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648381\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays and Athletics meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/oakland-athletics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> (0-1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (1-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Toronto; Saturday, 3:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (0-0); Blue Jays: Dylan Cease (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blue Jays -186, Athletics +155; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays take a 1-0 lead into the latest game of the series against the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Toronto had a 94-68 record overall and a 54-27 record in home games last season. The Blue Jays slugged .427 with a .333 on-base percentage as a team in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Athletics had a 76-86 record overall and a 40-41 record on the road last season. The Athletics scored 4.5 runs per game in the 2025 season while allowing 5.0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Blue Jays: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/anthony-santander-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Santander<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Shane Bieber: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jose-berrios-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/yimi-garcia-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Athletics: Gunnar Hoglund: 15-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics (0-1) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (1-0) Toronto; Saturday, 3:07 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (0-0);&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[383,537,5,75686,387,19,4,3226,70,2077],"class_list":["post-648381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-athletics","tag-anthony-santander","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-event_preview","tag-jose-berrios","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116306227991088530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648381","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=648381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}