Rays edge Blue Jays, 4-2, in tight Toronto game

sportsJul 23, 202627318

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 in a close game in Toronto. Alejandro Kirk hit a solo home run for the Blue Jays, accounting for one of Toronto's two runs. A notable defensive oddity came when Rays second baseman Taylor Walls overslid the bag at second base, put his hand on Andrés Giménez's glove that held the ball, and tagged himself out in the bottom of the fifth with the score 1-1. Tampa Bay held the lead late to secure the two-run victory, handing Toronto a narrow loss.

Keegan Matheson

@keeganmatheson.bsky.social

Max Scherzer’s Triple-A rehab start today went as well as it possibly could have. 5 IP • 0 ER, 0 H, 0 BB, 7 K • 56 pitches Scherzer likely needs another rehab start to build up his pitch count. Could be a flier market for him near the deadline, too. #BlueJays

4711h ago

Greg Gary1

It strikes me that wasting a start in AAA only brings him closer to another injury. I might rather spend it in TO where it matters.

Tammy Rainey1

Seems like someone will have to haul some innings if they deal Gaus and Bieber

Mike Wilner

@wilnerness.bsky.social

Great work there by #Rays Taylor Walls (part of the TB crew who wouldn't wear the Pride Night cap a couple of years back). Overslides the bag at second, then puts his hand on Andres Gimenez' glove, which had the ball in it, tagging himself out. 1-1 to bot5. #Bluejays

455h ago

Molly Knight

@mollyknight.bsky.social

The Dodgers are 7-0 in games Eric Lauer pitches. The Blue Jays DFA’d him in May.

415h ago

Brian Owens1

I'm glad he's doing well. He needed a change of scenery.

Mark Eugene1

The strange Dodgers way. Wizards with broken starting pitchers. And then there’s Conforto and Tucker.

Corey the Street1

He had a 6.69 era

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AlanPadres2

Why didn’t the pitching-strapped-Padres pickup noted dodger-killer Eric Lauer? 😭

Minor Leaguer

@minorleaguer.ca

Brendon Little honours a great Blue Jays season with his ERA

364h ago

Mitch Bannon

@mitchbannon.bsky.social

"I would love to have another opportunity. At the same time, it wouldn’t mean as much as it meant last year.” An emotional Kevin Gausman discusses a potential deadline trade away from the #BlueJays: www.nytimes.com/athletic/746...

158h ago

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I Hate My Favourite Teams11

None of these guys have recovered from last year

Jerome Persaud3

It's going to be a heartbreaker if he's dealt. I get it, this year's Jays have been too injured for too long & don't have the bats to pull themselves back up. BUT this era of Jays isn't over. They will continue to re-tool in the off-season, and Gausman probably has a couple yrs of quality ball left

Eric Koreen

@ekoreen.bsky.social

I think maybe we all just collectively willed the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays into existing and they were never really there at all.

143h ago

Kate Bueckert

@katebueckert.bsky.social

Lede: About an hour after what may have been his final start in Toronto as a member of the Blue Jays, Kevin and Taylor Gausman, holding hands, walked onto the Rogers Centre field, found a spot up the left-field line, plopped down against the wall and talked. 😭 www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

117h ago

CJ is still sad ⚾⚕️😷

@cjhajer.bsky.social

Beautiful September day for baseball. Please start having fun again, Blue Jays. 🫶🏻

Genius Blue Jays fan in white panel cap, Springer hockey jersey & N95 respirator. Rogers Centre infield and open stadium roof in the background.

117h ago

staring blankly into the abyss

@irmsby.bsky.social

Continuing to punish myself by watching the Blue Jays. Hoffman collapse, an absolute classic.

95h ago

Jason Brooks

@jebpages.com

I'm still mad at Dave Flemming for remarking, weeks ago, that you can't blame the Giants for not paying Tyler Rogers what the Blue Jays gave him. Yes Dave, I can be mad at the Giants and I am mad at them. #sfgiants

97h ago

Swagger

@girlswagger101.bsky.social

Everything went to hell with the Blue Jays when it stopped being Vladdy & George in the J & PB commercials and started being Ernie & George instead. (No offence, Ernie. We love ya.) Everything went to shit from that point forward. It’s science. #BlueJays #CanIGetABite

84h ago