By Tim Wharnsby
The Canadian Press
Posted August 2, 2025 5:59 pm
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TORONTO – Max Scherzer allowed only one run over six innings and Davis Schneider’s early two-run bloop single helped the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-2 win over the Kansas Metropolis Royals on Saturday.
Schneider’s one-out hit to centre discipline scored Myles Straw and Tyler Heineman within the third inning because the Blue Jays (65-47) gained for less than the second time in seven outings.
Schneider scored on Bo Bichette’s single to proper three batters later for a three-run benefit. It was the primary of Bichette’s three singles within the sport.
The 41-year-old Scherzer’s solely blemish was a solo homer to left discipline by Salvador Perez, his twentieth, with two out within the sixth inning.
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Scherzer (2-1) yielded 5 hits with 5 strikeouts and no walks in his 85-pitch outing earlier than 41,842 at Rogers Centre.
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Royals starter Noah Cameron (5-5) lasted 6 1/3 innings, giving up 4 runs on six hits and a stroll with a strikeout.
The Royals (55-56) pulled to inside a run within the seventh when Adam Frazier led off with a double and scored on Kyle Isbel’s one-out sacrifice bunt to reliever Brendon Little.
The Blue Jays responded with a one-out run-scoring single from Ernie Clement within the backside of the seventh.
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Earlier than Jeff Hoffman picked up his twenty sixth save with a clear ninth inning, reliever Seranthony Dominguez retired the Royals he confronted.
Heineman departed after three innings with a head contusion. Toronto’s catcher was hit within the masks with a foul ball on the high of the inning after which hit by a pitch within the backside half.
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Isbel hit a pair of one-out doubles to left discipline, solely to be stranded at third base on each events by his Royals teammates.
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George Springer (concussion) felt effectively sufficient to take batting observe Saturday. He’s eligible to return in Colorado towards the Rockies on Tuesday.
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Chris Bassitt (11-5) will face Kansas Metropolis’s Seth Lugo (8-5) in Sunday’s sequence finale with the three-game set at Rogers Centre tied 1-1.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 2, 2025.
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