NEW YORK – Relief pitcher Mason Fluharty is getting the start for Toronto as the Blue Jays open a three-game series in New York against the Yankees.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s relievers are well rested for the bullpen day, with only Spencer Miles and Louis Varland pitching in the Blue Jays’ 5-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday.<\/p>\n
New York (72-55) holds the top wild-card spot in the American League with Toronto chasing a playoff spot.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays (63-66) are half a game out of the third and final wild-card berth, currently held by the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n
Toronto has won seven of its last 10 games and is the hottest team in the AL.<\/p>\n
This will be Fluharty’s (5-1) fourth start this season. He has a 3.71 earned-run average with 56 strikeouts over 51 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – Relief pitcher Mason Fluharty is getting the start for Toronto as the Blue Jays open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2313,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4072,4,2305,2303,36353,62,2327,185,70,1039],"class_list":["post-784646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","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-mason-fluharty","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sports","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\/784646","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=784646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}