{"id":793833,"date":"2026-09-01T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/793833\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:18:21","slug":"blue-jays-set-for-pivotal-series-against-guardians-with-playoffs-in-sight-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/793833\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays set for pivotal series against Guardians with playoffs in sight | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays open a nine-game road trip tonight with a pivotal series against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians enter play with a 1 1\/2 game lead over the Blue Jays for the third and final wild-card spot in the American League.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland, however, does have one game in hand with 25 games remaining in its regular-season schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays are coming in on a three-game winning streak, having swept Seattle on the weekend, outscoring the Mariners 19-4 across their series.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Guardians have gone 8-2 in their last 10, but lost two of three against Kansas City. Cleveland closed out that series with an 11-1 win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will face Kansas City and then the Athletics after Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays open a nine-game road trip tonight with a pivotal series against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,19,2318,2308,2319,4,185,70],"class_list":["post-793833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117195040592498357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793833","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=793833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}