TORONTO – Chris Bassitt will not be about to achieve for the panic button regardless of the current play of the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays wasted a strong six-inning effort from Bassitt with their sixth loss in eight video games, a 7-4 defeat in 10 innings to the Kansas Metropolis Royals on Sunday. Toronto (65-48) nonetheless leads the American League East by three video games over the Boston Crimson Sox, a bonus constructed by a 49-28 document since Could 8, the very best run by an AL workforce throughout that stretch.
Bassitt believes his membership has suffered a letdown after rising from the all-star break by successful two of three from the rival New York Yankees and three of 4 from the Detroit Tigers, who on the time had Main League Baseball’s greatest document.
“Then I believed we simply laid an egg in Baltimore, the place we ran right into a super-hot Baltimore offence, and we simply weren’t prepared for it,” mentioned Bassitt of the Orioles successful 3 times within the four-game sequence.
Associated Movies
“Sadly, it occurs.”
Get breaking Nationwide information
For information impacting Canada and all over the world, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you after they occur.
The Royals arrived in Toronto having received seven of their final 10. The rubber-match win on Sunday, earlier than 41,461 at Rogers Centre, meant the Blue Jays dropped back-to-back sequence for the primary time since mid-Could.
“You simply take your licks,” Bassitt mentioned. “It’s going to occur by the 12 months.
“It’s simply getting again to who we’re as a workforce, good pitching from the starters to the bullpen and simply grind out at-bats.”
There was additionally the commerce deadline on Thursday. It yielded the Blue Jays three new pitchers and first baseman Ty France.
France didn’t play within the sequence finale in opposition to the Royals. However the three pitchers carried out on Sunday to blended evaluations.
Reliever Louis Varland gave up the tying run within the eighth inning, and Seranthony Dominguez was hammered for 5 extra within the tenth.
In the meantime, in his first rehab begin for triple-A Buffalo, Shane Bieber was encouraging. He tossed 62 pitches in 5 innings, surrendering two runs, together with a homer, on 5 hits with a stroll and 5 strikeouts.
Toronto supervisor John Schneider want to preserve Bieber with 5 days of relaxation between begins, however his subsequent outing is not going to be set in stone till the Blue Jays workers sees how he feels after this newest begin.
“I believe listening to his feedback after the sport are extra encouraging,” Schneider mentioned.
The 30-year-old Bieber, who underwent Tommy John surgical procedure on April 12, 2024, reported he felt “nice” and “excited” about the place he’s at within the restoration course of.
“We’re taking it a begin at a time,” Schneider mentioned. “However I believe from the stuff, the variety of pitches, the (velocity), it’s actually encouraging.”
Bieber sat beside Bassitt within the Blue Jays’ dugout on Saturday.
A part of their dialog was some sage recommendation on the levels of restoration after Tommy John surgical procedure. Bassitt underwent the process on his proper arm in Could 2016.
“Most of it’s personal,” mentioned Bassitt, when requested about what they talked about. “From a stance of what I can speak about, it was simply how his (Tommy John) rehab was going.
“I’ve been by it. So simply understanding what he’s going by, how he’s feeling, the dangerous and good emotions of the method and issues like that. I used to be questioning the place he was at.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 3, 2025.
© 2025 The Canadian Press
