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<\/p>\n\u201cYeah. I mean, it\u2019s cool, but like I said, I\u2019ve got to pitch again in a couple days,\u201d said Gausman.<\/p>\n
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Davis Schneider\u2019s RBI single in the third inning gave Toronto (4-2) an early lead but Troy Johnston drove in a run in the eighth to tie the game 1-1 for Colorado (2-4). <\/p>\n
That set up pinch-hitter Tyler Freeman to hit the go-ahead RBI single in the 10th to complete the Rockies\u2019 comeback.<\/p>\n
Gausman seemed unperturbed by the lack of run support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not much I can do, you know? I\u2019m not going to get an at bat,\u201d he said. \u201cUnfortunately, there\u2019s usually one guy out of the five (rotation pitchers) that for whatever reason the boys just have a hard time kind of stringing it together on his start days. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve definitely been that guy in the past. I hope this isn\u2019t what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blue Jays manager John Schneider was frustrated that his hitters couldn\u2019t make the most of a bases-loaded situation in the third inning with just one out, but he was also confident that the runs will start to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you get a starting performance like (Gausman\u2019s), you want to win,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be times where this happens. There\u2019s going to be times where you break a game open, case in point, third inning, and we\u2019ve got all the confidence in the world in our guys to come through in those spots.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve done it a million times, and they\u2019re going to do it as the season unfolds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gausman had said before the season started that he thought Toronto\u2019s rotation had some of the best swing-and-miss pitchers in baseball. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s been leading by example, with his 21 strikeouts the most in Major League Baseball when the Blue Jays game ended early Wednesday evening, three more than Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski. <\/p>\n
Gausman\u2019s 15.8 strikeouts per nine-innings rate was also fourth best in the majors. Teammate Dylan Cease, who\u2019s scheduled to start on Friday for Toronto in Chicago against the White Sox, was tops with 20.3 and Blue Jays starter Eric Lauer was fifth with 15.2.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the numbers say I must be pretty smart,\u201d said Gausman. \u201cThese guys, they just have really good stuff. <\/p>\n
\u201cCease is incredible, (recently injured Cody) Ponce is obviously, done now, but his stuff is electric and every guy in between as well.\u201d<\/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":"\u201cYeah. I mean, it\u2019s cool, but like I said, I\u2019ve got to pitch again in a couple days,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-658238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116333737550019617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658238","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=658238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}