{"id":773948,"date":"2026-08-09T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/773948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:28:14","slug":"torontos-springer-scratched-against-phillies-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/773948\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s Springer scratched against Phillies with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 George Springer was a late scratch from Toronto\u2019s starting lineup against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday due to left shoulder tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Springer was scheduled to be the designated hitter and bat fourth. He is batting .234 with 12 home runs and 36 RBIs in 86 games. <\/p>\n<p>Manager John Schneider said Springer has been \u201cdealing with it the last couple of days.\u201d But Schneider did not seem concerned that this would be a lingering injury. <\/p>\n<p>Springer did enter the game as a pinch runner in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 George Springer was a late scratch from Toronto\u2019s starting lineup against the Philadelphia Phillies on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,311,3964,4,256,1727,3838,25,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":["post-773948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-baseball","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-george-springer","tag-john-schneider","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-torontobluejays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117064374943640412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773948","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=773948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}