{"id":774971,"date":"2026-08-10T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774971\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:00:21","slug":"blue-jays-return-to-toronto-for-crucial-series-against-boston-red-sox-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774971\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays return to Toronto for crucial series against Boston Red Sox | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays open a crucial four-game series against the visiting Boston Red Sox tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Boston holds one of three wild-card spots in the American League standings with Toronto chasing one of those playoff berths.<\/p>\n<p>Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez\u2019s double-play groundout in the 12th put the Blue Jays ahead 6-5 in Philadelphia yesterday, but Derek Hill singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning as the Phillies won 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>That kept Toronto 3 1\/2 games back of the Texas Rangers for the final wild-card spot in the AL. The Rangers were whipped 10-5 by the visiting Baltimore Orioles yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Jameson Taillon will make his Rogers Centre debut as a member of the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Gray gets the start for the Red Sox, who have won eight of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays open a crucial four-game series against the visiting Boston Red Sox tonight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,48,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,185,282,70,1039],"class_list":["post-774971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774971","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=774971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}