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The Toronto Blue Jays kick off their final road series of the 2025 season with a Friday night matchup in Kansas City against the Royals. The game is scheduled to start at 7:40 p.m. ET (6:40 p.m. CT) on \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d on Apple TV+ (free trial)<\/a>. <\/p>\n Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals<\/b><\/p>\n MLB matchup at a glance<\/b><\/p>\n The Blue Jays continue to set the pace in the American League East Division, but they enter Friday having seen the New York Yankees ride a three-game win streak to trim the margin to three games. Toronto is a .500 team on the road this season (39-39), but could use at least two wins this weekend to win the AL East and avoid an even tighter AL Wild Card race.<\/p>\n Veteran right-hander Max Scherzer (5-3, 4.31 ERA) will make his 16th start of the season for the Blue Jays, opposite Royals righty Michael Lorenzen (5-11, 4.91 ERA). Toronto goes into gameday a solid betting favorite (-150) to win Friday night\u2019s opener on the road. The game will kick off a doubleheader on Apple TV+, with Clayton Kershaw set to make his final regular-season home start<\/a> in the nightcap (10:10 p.m. ET) against the San Francisco Giants. <\/p>\n The Blue Jays and Royals are set for a 7:40 p.m. ET start on Apple TV+<\/a>, which comes with a free trial. After that, a subscription costs $9.99 per month.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Toronto Blue Jays kick off their final road series of the 2025 season with a Friday night matchup in Kansas City against the Royals. The game is scheduled to start at 7:40 p.m. ET (6:40 p.m. CT) on \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d on Apple TV+ (free trial). How to watch MLB on Apple TV+: Live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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