The Arizona Diamondbacks open a nine-game, three-city road trip in Toronto on June 17, where they will play the Blue Jays.

With the Blue Jays up 1-0, Francis retired Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm before walking Nick Castellanos and Max Kepler. Then, the 29-year-old hit J.T. Realmuto with a pitch, walked Bryson Stott to bring in a run, and hit Otto Kemp to bring in another run. Toronto manager John Schneider had seen enough after that.

The Toronto Blue Jays are playing some excellent baseball as one of the hottest teams in the MLB. Their offense, which has been dormant for most of the season, has begun coming alive in recent weeks,

Ranger Suárez doesn’t throw the hardest. In an era where some pitchers are regularly blazing past triple digits on the radar gun, a fastball that clocks 92 mph puts Suárez in the 12th percentile of major league baseball.

Toronto has remained without veteran starting pitcher Max Scherzer, who has been working his way back from a thumb injury. Scherzer, an eight-time All-Star, joined the Blue Jays on a one-year, $15.5 million contract but has been experiencing a tough start to life after exiting his debut game on March 29 due to a right thumb inflammation.

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By mid-June last year, the Toronto Blue Jays’ trajectory was set. They were 15 games back of the division lead and quickly drifting out of the postseason race. Things never got better. The Blue Jays sold hard at the 2024 trade deadline,

The Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the hottest teams in baseball over the last few weeks, winning 12 out of their last 14 games. That has pushed them to the