{"id":2039837,"date":"2025-09-21T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039837"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:08:12","slug":"blue-jays-secure-playoff-spot-with-8-5-win-against-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/blue-jays-secure-playoff-spot-with-8-5-win-against-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays secure playoff spot with 8-5 win against Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Andres Gimenez drove in two runs apiece as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 8-5 Sunday and clinched a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

Toronto is the first team in the American League to secure a spot in the playoffs, returning to the post-season for the first time since 2023, and improved its AL-best and AL East-leading record to 90-66.<\/p>\n

In 2023,\u00a0they were topped by the Minnesota Twins in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n

Toronto entered the day needing a win or losses from the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Guardians.<\/div>\n

The Blue Jays also came into Sunday’s contest with the best record in the American League. However, Toronto only had a two-game edge on the New York Yankees for top spot in the AL East.<\/p>\n

A division crown along with clinching the first or second seed in the AL would give the Blue Jays a bye through the wild-card round and home-field advantage in the AL Division Series.<\/p>\n

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The Jays’ Andres Gimenez runs home to score on a double by George Springer during the second inning against the Royals on Sunday. (Charlie Riedel\/AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The Blue Jays scored three runs in the second inning on run-scoring hits by Gimenez, Tyler Heineman and George Springer.<\/p>\n

Guerrero hit a two-run double in the fifth and Addison Barger followed with an RBI double to give Toronto a 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n

After the Royals cut their deficit to 6-5, Ernie Clement and Gimenez had RBI hits in the eighth to extend Toronto’s lead to 8-5.<\/p>\n

Toronto starter Trey Yesavage worked four innings, allowing four runs on five hits while walking three and striking out two.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Dave Yesavage shares the moment his son made Blue Jays history during his MLB pitching debut:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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#TheMoment a dad was brought to tears watching his son\u2019s MLB pitching debut<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dave Yesavage tells The National about the moment he witnessed his son, Trey Yesavage, make Toronto Blue Jays history during his MLB pitching debut.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Seranthony Dominguez (4-4) pitched 1 1\/3 innings for the win, and Jeff Hoffman recorded his 32nd save of the season.<\/p>\n

Carter Jensen had a two-run double in the fourth inning, Maikel Garcia and Salvador Perez hit consecutive run-scoring singles in the fifth and Randal Grichuk picked up an RBI in the sixth to complete Kansas City’s scoring.<\/p>\n

Michael Wacha (9-13) gave up six earned runs on eight hits in five innings with one walk and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Andres Gimenez drove in two runs apiece as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 8-5 Sunday and clinched a playoff berth. Toronto is the first team in the American League to secure a spot in the playoffs, returning to the post-season for the first time since 2023, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2039837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Blue-Jays-secure-playoff-spot-with-8-5-win-against-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039837","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=2039837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}