{"id":658199,"date":"2026-04-02T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:03:33","slug":"tyler-freemans-rbi-single-in-10th-inning-lifts-colorado-rockies-over-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658199\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Freeman’s RBI single in 10th inning lifts Colorado Rockies over Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Pinch-hitter Tyler Freeman<\/a>\u2019s RBI single in the 10th inning helped the Colorado Rockies<\/a> complete a 2-1 comeback win over the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Troy Johnston<\/a> had an RBI single in the eighth inning to tie the game 1-1 for Colorado (2-4)<\/p>\n

Colorado starter Kyle Freeland<\/a> allowed a run on five hits and a walk but struck out six over five innings. <\/p>\n

Relievers Antonio Senzatela<\/a>, Victor Vodnik<\/a>, Brennan Bernardino<\/a> (1-0) and Jimmy Herget<\/a> combined for five scoreless innings. Herget earned the save.<\/p>\n

Toronto wasted a superb outing by starting pitcher Kevin Gausman<\/a>, who struck out 10 and allowed just two hits, in a six-inning no decision. Tyler Rogers<\/a>, Tommy Nance<\/a>, Mason Fluharty<\/a>, Jeff Hoffman<\/a>, and Brendon Little<\/a> (0-1) came out of the Blue Jays bullpen, with Little taking the loss.<\/p>\n

Davis Schneider<\/a>\u2019s RBI single in the third inning gave Toronto (4-2) an early lead.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Rockies: Colorado\u2019s bullpen and defence kept Toronto\u2019s offence at bay, giving up no runs and only two hits. The Rockies aggressive baserunning pressured the Blue Jays\u2019 fielders throughout the game.<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Cashing in available runs continues to be a problem for Toronto. Eleven runners were left on base in the Blue Jays\u2019 5-1 win on Tuesday and they stranded another nine on Wednesday. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> was hit by a pitch to load the bases after Schneider\u2019s RBI single in the third but both Kazuma Okamoto and Alejandro Kirk<\/a> were unable to drive in any more runners.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Freeman led off the 10th and connected on Little\u2019s 86.9 m.p.h. knuckle curve, sending it to centre field to score Brenton Doyle<\/a>, who started the inning on second.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Gausman is the first Major League Baseball pitcher to have 10 or more strikeouts and no walks in his first two games of the season since at least 1900.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Toronto was scheduled to face the White Sox in Chicago on Thursday, but the game was postponed to Friday because of rain and thunderstorms in the forecast.<\/p>\n

Dylan Cease<\/a> (0-0) is next up in Toronto\u2019s rotation and Sean Burke<\/a> (0-1) was scheduled to go for the White Sox.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Pinch-hitter Tyler Freeman\u2019s RBI single in the 10th inning helped the Colorado Rockies complete a 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-658199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116333602755734587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658199","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=658199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}