{"id":8682,"date":"2025-10-12T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bichette-left-off-blue-jays-roster-for-alcs-against-mariners-scherzer-and-bassitt-active\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:19:30","slug":"bichette-left-off-blue-jays-roster-for-alcs-against-mariners-scherzer-and-bassitt-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bichette-left-off-blue-jays-roster-for-alcs-against-mariners-scherzer-and-bassitt-active\/","title":{"rendered":"Bichette left off Blue Jays roster for ALCS against Mariners, Scherzer and Bassitt active"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO (AP) &mdash; Injured Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette is not on the roster for the AL Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners that begins Sunday night in Toronto, but three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and right-hander Chris Bassitt are both active after missing the Division Series win over the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette ran the bases Saturday, the first time he&rsquo;s done that since spraining his left knee last month. The two-time AL hits leader and two-time All-Star grimaced while rounding second base, pulled up and walked off the field while shaking his head.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette finished second in the major leagues to New York&rsquo;s Aaron Judge with a .311 batting average. Bichette was injured in a Sept. 6 collision with Yankees catcher Austin Wells and hasn&rsquo;t played since.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&rsquo;s 13 position players for the ALCS are the same group that scored 34 runs in 34 innings against the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-time All-Star, Scherzer was 5-5 with a 5.19 ERA in 17 starts after agreeing to a $15.5 million, one-year contract. He didn&rsquo;t pitch between March 29 and June 25 because of right thumb inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer was 1-3 with a 9.00 ERA in his final six starts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Bassitt went 11-9 with a 3.96 ERA in 32 appearances, all but one of them starts.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer and Bassitt took the spots of two relievers, left-hander Justin Bruihl and righty Tommy Nance.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Bichette left off Blue Jays roster for ALCS against Mariners, Scherzer and Bassitt active<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) &mdash; Injured Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette is not on the roster for the AL Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners that begins Sunday night in Toronto, but three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and right-hander Chris Bassitt are both active after missing the Division Series win over the Yankees. Bichette ran&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bichette-left-off-blue-jays-roster-for-alcs-against-mariners-scherzer-and-bassitt-active\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bichette left off Blue Jays roster for ALCS against Mariners, Scherzer and Bassitt active&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}