{"id":72907,"date":"2025-06-02T05:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/72907\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:59:26","slug":"bashing-barger-bringing-in-runs-for-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/72907\/","title":{"rendered":"Bashing Barger bringing in runs for Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 There were many offensive stars for the Toronto Blue Jays in their four-game series sweep of the Athletics, but Addison Barger stood larger with his flair for the dramatic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Barger blasted a homer for the third consecutive game, igniting a six-run eighth inning with a three-run shot to give the Toronto Blue Jays an 8-4 comeback win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Barger\u2019s heroics extended the Blue Jays win streak at home to seven games. In this stretch, the Blue Jays outscored the San Diego Padres and Athletics 63-24, touching home an average of nine times per game.<\/p>\n<p>They have a .337 team batting average with 85 hits, including 32 extra-base hits during this run.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Barger, of Bellevue, Wash., has contributed in each game during this streak. But his good vibrations stretch back to early May.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In his last 24 games, Barger has hit .321 with eight doubles, five homers and 15 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Blue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WEB_6P_BLUE_JAYS_IN_SEATTLE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:22<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlue Jays fans skip out on Seattle series over U.S. trade war\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Toronto manager John Schneider credits his hot slugger with being more athletic when at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he got away from that a little bit last year in the batter\u2019s box,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a pretty dynamic player. So I think it\u2019s just go, do your thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barger\u2019s blast to right centre off Athletics reliever Justin Sterner travelled 412 feet after smacking a 428-foot drive into the seats on Saturday and 406 feet shot on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s confident as ever,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cIt\u2019s cool to watch it unfold. You know he\u2019s talented, and then when it starts to click like this you get sucked into every at-bat, thinking he\u2019s going to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Strange Springer<\/p>\n<p>Schneider reported George Springer was jumping up and down on third base when he was tagged out because he tweaked his ankle running from first to third base to end the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Initially called safe, a video replay caught Springer off the bag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the whole thing unfold,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t dancing. He wasn\u2019t doing anything crazy. 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He pitched a shaky eighth inning but registered the win in his first appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, outfielder Daulton Varsho was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain he suffered running from second to third base on Saturday. Davis Schneider was recalled from triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Easton Lucas was optioned to Buffalo with the return of Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies next<\/p>\n<p>While the Athletics left town as the second-worst team in the American League, a much better challenge arrives in the Philadelphia Phillies for a three-game set, beginning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies have won 17 road games, tied for the most in the National League with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve played good teams really well all year,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve always kind of played them tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 There were many offensive stars for the Toronto Blue Jays in their four-game series sweep of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,10864,2554,4,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-72907","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-blue-jays-baseball","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114612244953876522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72907","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=72907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}