{"id":661671,"date":"2026-04-03T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:52:14","slug":"blue-jays-mason-fluharty-to-start-game-2-vs-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661671\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Mason Fluharty to start Game 2 vs. White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left-handed reliever will start Saturday&#8217;s Game 2 against the Chicago White Sox, Sportsnet&#8217;s Ben Nicholson-Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2040191151739748787?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2040191151739748787?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Eric Lauer had been scheduled to start, but manager John Schneider told reporters pre-game on Friday that the team elected to give him an extra day&#8217;s rest. <\/p>\n<p>Fluharty, 24, has pitched 1.2 innings across four games this year, owning a 10.80 ERA with four strikeouts and no walks. <\/p>\n<p>In his rookie season in 2025, the Lewes, Del., native owned a 4.44 ERA with 56 strikeouts and 24 walks across 52.2 innings in relief.<\/p>\n<p>Catch Saturday&#8217;s game on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ with coverage beginning at 2 p.m. ET \/ 11 a.m. PT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The left-handed reliever will start Saturday&#8217;s Game 2 against the Chicago White Sox, Sportsnet&#8217;s Ben Nicholson-Smith reported Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649331,"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-661671","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\/116343232958797356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661671","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=661671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}