{"id":438546,"date":"2023-06-25T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438546"},"modified":"2023-06-25T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:39:04","slug":"george-springer-helps-blue-jays-to-beat-athletics-12-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/george-springer-helps-blue-jays-to-beat-athletics-12-1\/","title":{"rendered":"George Springer helps Blue Jays to beat Athletics 12-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Springer is now in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place on baseball\u2019s career list with his 55<sup>th<\/sup> leadoff homer; Yusei Kikuchi pitched a campaign-high 7 innings as the Toronto Blue Jays destroyed the Oakland Athletics 12-1 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Series WIN!<\/p>\n<p>FINAL: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BlueJays<\/a> 12, A&#8217;s 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mWe8mHXcvB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mWe8mHXcvB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1673062366735654913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tony Kemp struck a solo homer, his 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, but Athletics were defeated for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> time in 11 matches after winning 7 straight clashes before that. Oakland is 40 matches below .500 at 20-60, matching for the 9<sup>th<\/sup> worst record after 80 matches in MLB history. That\u2019s the worst beginning of a campaign since Detroit 19-61 in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Springer had 2 for 3 with a walk and 2 RBI, a sacrifice fly. Before him is only Rickey Henderson with 81 leadoff homers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Moving UP! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpringerDinger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SpringerDinger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k7tJ4rhUPX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k7tJ4rhUPX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1673025329261076482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leading off in style \ud83d\udca3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpringerDinger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SpringerDinger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbNZvpRW51\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zbNZvpRW51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1673026205803749376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oakland will face the New York Yankees in a 3-game series in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will play a 3-match series in Canada vs. San Francisco, as the 1<sup>st<\/sup> game is on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Springer is now in the 2nd place on baseball\u2019s career list with his 55th leadoff homer; Yusei Kikuchi pitched a campaign-high 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438547,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18592,18517],"news_category":[16708,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18666,18519,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Springer hits his 55th career leadoff home run.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438546"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438546"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}