The winning streak has come to an end at four games. Following Friday night’s walk-off victory, the Pittsburgh Pirates came back with an 8-1 pounding of the Blue Jays to knot this weekend’s series at one game each.
Pirates 8 Jays 1 Well, that was boring. Yusei Kikuchi gave up three runs in the first, which was pretty much the game. We had a shot at making it closer in the bottom of the inning.
Kikuchi has fully embraced the new curveball by throwing it at a 28% clip, and batters have been almost wholly unable to do damage against the pitch.
After winning four games in a row, the Toronto Blue Jays (27-29) play at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates (26-31) at 3:07 PM ET on Saturday. This contest’s pitching matchup is set, as the Blue Jays will send Yusei Kikuchi (2-4) to the mound, while Mitch Keller (6-3) will get the nod for the Pirates.
After dropping three of four to the Detroit Tigers last weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays now sit 12.0 games back in the AL East with a 24-29 record. With the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles continuing to rattle off wins, optimism may be at the lowest point in several seasons for the Blue Jays fanbase.
The Toronto Blue Jays (23-28) visit the Detroit Tigers (25-27) for an away game at Comerica Park on Sunday. First pitch is at 11:35 AM ET. The Blue Jays will call on Yusei Kikuchi (2-4) against the Tigers and Casey Mize (1-3).
We're roughly two months into the MLB season, meaning most teams have played more than 50 games, so we have enough of a sample size to make solid judgments about teams.
The Chicago White Sox (14-34) bring a four-game losing streak into a road contest against the Toronto Blue Jays (21-25) at 7:07 PM ET on Tuesday. The probable pitchers are Yusei Kikuchi (2-3) for the Blue Jays and Garrett Crochet (4-4) for the White Sox.
The Toronto Blue Jays faced the Baltimore Orioles in a matinee contest earlier today, looking to take the series before welcoming the Tampa Bay Rays for a three-game set this upcoming holiday weekend.
Undoubtedly, the Blue Jays front office is mentally haunted right now as the team struggles to perform offensively. The lack of offseason success and the delusional merry-go-round idea of the best player in baseball coming to Toronto are dawning harshly on the team’s lineup.
It’s not very often that a starting pitcher goes eight innings, giving up two earned runs and is still tagged with the loss. But this is the 2024 Blue Jays we’re talking about, of course that happened to Yusei Kikuchi as the Blue Jays lost 3-2 to the Minnesota Twins, bringing their record to 17-21.
The Minnesota Twins (22-15) kick off a three-game series on Friday against the Toronto Blue Jays (17-20). The matchup begins at 7:07 PM ET at Rogers Centre.
The Toronto Blue Jays are hosting the Minnesota Twins for a three-game series, with the first matchup getting underway at 7:07 PM ET on Friday, May 10.
Blue Jays 3 Nationals 9 This one started well. Yusei Kikuchi was terrific. Six innings, 6 hits, 1 earned, 1 walk, and 7 strikeouts. He was untouchable for most of his time out there.
At one point last season, it seemed impossible for the Toronto Blue Jays to keep Yusei Kikuchi on the roster. The lefty struggled mightily in his first season with the Jays and fared no better to start year two.
The Toronto Blue Jays earned the series win earlier this week against the New York Yankees largely in part due to the excellent effort of the starting pitchers.
The biggest story in baseball is reigning AL MVP Shohei Ohtani's free agency, and reports are starting to emerge on where he may land.
The Toronto Blue Jays received serious rotation-bolstering work from Jose Berrios and Yusei Kikuchi this summer.
After being removed from his last game due to cramps, Kikuchi said that he believed he'd be ready for his next start and made a startling admission when hypothesizing the reason for the discomfort.
Boom! That's a strikeout prop sweep to start the week, folks. There isn't much time for YB's Jack Dougherty to celebrate, though, as there's another full slate of baseball on deck for Tuesday.
The Blue Jays will have to decide what to do with Kikuchi in 2023. It just might depend on everything else they do. The Toronto Blue Jays will have a decision to make with regard to Yusei Kikuchi.
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