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Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet aims to improve on his last start when he faces the host Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series. The left-hander allowed four runs, five hits and a career-high five walks in five innings on Thursday in a 4-3 home loss to the Seattle Mariners. Crochet took responsibility for the loss after the Mariners touched him for two runs in each of the first two innings. "The game was the first two innings that I pitched," he said. "That was really what lost us the game." The Blue Jays can look forward to Crochet reverting to a power pitcher from the beginning on Tuesday. He was trying to be a little too fine in the early innings against the Mariners. "It became something where I was trying to pitch instead of just throwing," he said after the start. "Once I started getting back to my roots and just being a power pitcher later in the game, the walks were still there, but I was at least able to get guys out." This will be the second time this season that Crochet (2-2, 1.95 ERA) will face the Blue Jays. He took his first loss of the season against them at Fenway Park on April 8 when he allowed four runs (one earned), five hits and four walks in 5 2/3 innings. In four career outings (two starts) against Toronto, he is 2-1 with a 0.66 ERA in 13 2/3 innings. He is expected to be opposed by right-hander Bowden Francis (2-3, 3.58) on Tuesday. Francis has not faced the Red Sox this season, but he has had success against them. He is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 14 2/3 innings over in five career games (two starts) against Boston. The Red Sox are coming off a 13-3 road victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Kristian Campbell was 2-for-2 with four runs, a double, three walks, two RBIs and a stolen base in what manager Alex Cora described as "all-around probably one of his best, if not the best, game of the season." Campbell helped Boston take two of three from Cleveland. The Blue Jays are returning from a 1-5 road trip after being swept 11-2 and 5-1 in a doubleheader by the New York Yankees on Sunday. Toronto won the opener of the series 4-2 on Friday followed by a postponement on Saturday. The Blue Jays' lack of hitting with runners in scoring position was again a problem, going 2-for-17 over the doubleheader. They scored seven runs over the three games at New York. Before that, they totaled two runs and nine hits when they were swept in a three-game series against the Houston Astros. Manager John Schneider knows what the Blue Jays must do better when they open their six-game homestand. "Better at-bats with guys on base and taking advantage of mistakes," Schneider said. "Things that we talk about all the time. ... We know that we have the guys in there that can do it." Blue Jays center fielder Daulton Varsho is expected to return soon from his minor league rehabilitation assignment. He started the season on the injured list after offseason right rotator cuff surgery. Toronto recalled outfielder Jonatan Clase to be their 27th player for the doubleheader on Sunday and he was returned to return to Triple-A Buffalo later the same day. --Field Level Media

While Max Fried's first month with the New York Yankees is going well, Devin Williams is experiencing a rough time in his initial weeks for his new team. Fried will be on the mound Saturday afternoon when the Yankees host the Toronto Blue Jays. Now, if there is a save situation for New York, whoever is on the mound in the ninth inning will be a storyline. The Yankees are 1-3 in their past four games, and they took a 4-2 loss on Friday when Williams did not retire a batter and allowed a go-ahead two-run double to Alejandro Kirk in the ninth. Williams, acquired in December from the Milwaukee Brewers for Nestor Cortes, blew his first save in five chances and has an 11.25 ERA in his first 10 appearances. "Truthfully, I don't know," Williams said. "It's something I've been battling for most of the season. So it's getting pretty frustrating." Following the defeat, New York manager Aaron Boone declined to say if he was considering a change at closer. He has a readymade option if he wants to make a switch: Setup man Luke Weaver has two saves and a 0.00 ERA through 11 outings this year, and he handled the closer role in the final month of last season. "We'll kind of talk through that stuff," Boone said. "This is raw right now. We want to do everything we can to get (Williams) right because we know how good he is and how valuable he's going to be for us." Fried (4-0, 1.42 ERA) is rolling in the opening weeks of eight-year, $218 million contract with the Yankees. Since allowing six runs (two earned) over 4 2/3 innings in a no-decision against the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29, Fried is 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in his past four outings. Fried turned in his second scoreless outing this season when he allowed two hits in a season-high 7 2/3 innings against the host Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. He got a season-high 13 groundball outs and threw 102 pitches. Fried is 2-0 with a 0.95 ERA in three career starts against Toronto. He last faced the Blue Jays last Sept. 6, when he allowed one run, which was unearned, on five hits in seven innings in a game when he fanned eight and got 16 groundball outs. The Blue Jays stopped a season-high, five-game losing streak by getting enough hits after going 9-for-90 and getting swept in a three-game series at Houston. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered on Friday, and Kirk, Addison Barger and Nathan Lukes each had two of Toronto's nine hits. "It feels great. I needed it and the team needed it," Kirk said through an interpreter after his sixth multi-hit game of the season. "I'm very happy, just very happy about it." Toronto's Kevin Gausman (2-2, 3.16 ERA) starts on Saturday in the middle game of a three-game series. He is coming off allowing a season-worst four runs on six hits in six innings during a 7-0 loss at Houston on Monday. Gausman struck out six, and he has fanned 22 in his past three outings after not getting a strikeout April 4 against the Mets in New York. Gausman is 10-9 with a 3.63 ERA in 35 career appearances (29 starts) against the Yankees. Last season, he went 0-2 with a 9.98 ERA in four starts against the Yankees, who slugged five homers against him in 15 1/3 innings. --Field Level Media

Both Cal Raleigh and Rowdy Tellez hit two-run home runs and the visiting Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday afternoon. Dylan Moore added a solo shot for Seattle in the rubber match of a three-game series. Tellez, a former Blue Jay, had three home runs in the series. Tyler Heineman had three hits for Toronto on Sunday. Moore greeted left-hander Easton Lucas (2-2) with his fifth homer of the season to open the first, a shot to left on a 1-1 sweeper. Julio Rodriguez doubled off the left-field wall and Raleigh lofted a 2-1 slider to left for his ninth homer of the season. Raleigh has 11 career homers against Toronto, 10 in the regular season. He struck out in each of his next four at-bats on Sunday. Seattle struck out 18 times as everyone in the lineup whiffed at least once. Seattle doubled its lead to 6-0 in the second. Ben Williamson walked and Leo Rivas singled. The runners advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Randy Arozarena's two-out liner over the shortstop. Mitch Garver grounded an RBI single up the middle. That's when the Blue Jays took out Lucas -- who finished with seven hits, six runs, five strikeouts and two walks in 1 2/3 innings -- and brought in Paxton Schultz for his major-league debut. Promoted from Triple-A Buffalo earlier in the day, the 27-year-old right-hander fired 4 1/3 scoreless innings and racked up eight strikeouts to match the team record for an MLB debut. Seattle starter Luis Castillo (2-2) was shaky early and allowed two second-inning runs. Addison Barger led off with a double down the right-field line and Will Wagner singled. Heineman's bouncer became an RBI infield single when Castillo deflected it. Bo Bichette stroked an RBI single. The inning ended on Arozarena's sliding catch near the left-field line with the bases loaded. Toronto cut its deficit to 6-3 in the third when George Springer led off with a double off the left-field wall and scored on Nathan Lukes's bases-loaded sacrifice fly to center. Castillo allowed three runs, 10 hits and two walks with five strikeouts over five innings. Garver singled and Tellez homered to right as a pinch hitter in the seventh against Dillon Tate, also promoted from Buffalo on Sunday. Toronto put right-hander Nick Sandlin (right lat strain) on the injured list and designated right-hander Jacob Barnes for assignment. --Field Level Media

Rowdy Tellez hit a grand slam in a five-run 12th inning and the visiting Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Saturday afternoon. It was the second homer of the series and the fifth career grand slam for Tellez, a former Blue Jay. Randy Arozarena had an RBI single prior to Tellez's blast. Ben Williamson had his first career homer, a solo shot, and a double for the Mariners who evened the three-game series. Andres Gimenez and Ernie Clement each had three hits for the Blue Jays. Toronto attacked right-hander Logan Gilbert early. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. slashed a double to right with one out in the first and scored when Anthony Santander grounded a single to right. Berrios left two Mariners stranded in the fourth. When the half inning ended Berrios had words with Cal Raleigh, who led off with an infield single. The dugouts emptied briefly and the umpires warned both teams. Seattle took the lead in the fifth. Williamson led off with a double to left that glanced off the glove of a diving Alan Roden. J.P. Crawford walked. Miles Mastrobuoni sacrificed to put both runners in scoring position and Raleigh scored them with a two-out double to the right field corner that bit the line. The Blue Jays tied the game in their fifth. Gimenez singled, stole second and scored on Alejandro Kirk's two-out single to left. Collin Snider replaced Gilbert, who allowed two runs, seven hits and two walks while striking out nine in 4 2/3 innings. Toronto regained the lead against Snider in the sixth. Clement grounded an infield hit to second, Myles Straw sacrificed him to second and Bo Bichette blooped an RBI single to right. Williamson smashed a 2-1 sinker for a homer to left to tie the game in the seventh. Brendon Little replaced Berrios, who allowed three runs, four hits and four walks with three strikeouts in his six-plus innings. Seattle's Andres Munoz (1-0) allowed only an intentional walk in the 11th. Automatic runner Crawford took third on Julio Rodriguez's fly out against Jacob Barnes (0-1). Leo Rivas and Raleigh walked. Arozarena hit the RBI single and Tellez cleared the bases with a two-out blast to right. Casey Lawrence allowed a run on George Springer's groundout in the bottom of the 12th. --Field Level Media

The visiting Seattle Mariners will try to be a little smarter on the bases Saturday afternoon when they continue their three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto right fielder Addison Barger earned three assists in the 3-1 win over Seattle in the series opener on Friday night. Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk threw out Julio Rodriguez on an attempted steal of second in the eighth inning. The Blue Jays have won three in a row to improve to 3-1 on a six-game homestand. The Mariners lost for only the second time in their past eight games and are 2-2 during a nine-game road trip. Toronto is scheduled to start right-hander Jose Berrios (1-1, 5.16 ERA). He is 4-2 with a 3.18 ERA in nine career starts against Seattle. He will face right-hander Logan Gilbert (1-1, 2.38), who is 0-2 with a 5.46 ERA in five career starts against Toronto. In his one start against the Blue Jays last season, however, he allowed one run in 7 2/3 innings. Seattle entered the series in a good frame of mind after winning two in a row against the Cincinnati Reds. "I've seen everybody with a good attitude, going out there and trying to give their best," Randy Arozarena said on Thursday. "I see a bunch of guys that are going out there and giving the best they can to win these games." Arozarena did not help the cause on Friday, however. He was caught in a rundown between third and home and tagged out on Luke Raley's double to right in the fourth. Barger threw to second on the play. When shortstop Bo Bichette threw home, Arozarena pulled up and tried to return to third before being tagged. Barger's other two assists were more direct. He threw out Cal Raleigh trying for a double, also in the fourth. In the fifth, his powerful throw, recorded at 98.8 miles per hour, caught the lumbering Rowdy Tellez at third when he tagged up at second and tried to advance. "I thought it was deep enough," Tellez said. "I thought him moving to the line was going to give me a good chance to get there. And obviously, he put it on the money. He threw Cal out earlier and made another good throw when (Raley) was going into second when we ended up getting thrown out at home. But I just want to be aggressive. Sometimes it backfires. Sometimes it doesn't. Who would have thought he could do it three times in a row. But you know that now." The Mariners should have learned something for the rest of the series. Barger is the third Blue Jays outfielder to record three assists in a game, joining Rick Bosetti in 1979 and Steve Bowling in 1977. "I love throwing the baseball," Barger said. "I don't know if it's confidence or just something I love to do, but it's probably my favorite part of the game." Tellez accounted for Seattle's run with a home run against Bowden Francis. They were traded for each other in a 2021 deal between Toronto and the Milwaukee Brewers. Francis appreciated the help from Barger, recently recalled from Triple-A Buffalo. "I get the arm strength, but the precision he has too is pretty sick," Francis said. "He's always had it. I've seen it many times in Buffalo, too. But he just stepped up in a big spot there and he saved the outing." --Field Level Media

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has a new, huge contract but no home runs. Guerrero will look to flex his muscles on Tuesday night when Toronto hosts the Atlanta Braves. The Blue Jays held a media conference on Monday afternoon to make Guerrero's 14-year, $500 million contract extension official. He then went 0-for-4 in an 8-4 loss to the Braves. Guerrero had a couple of hard-hit balls -- a flyout to the warning track in center in the first inning that brought a big roar of anticipation from the crowd, and a line drive to shortstop in the fourth. He finished the game batting .284 with seven RBIs after 17 games. He has four extra-base hits, all doubles. Toronto's only homer of Monday's game came in the sixth inning, when Myles Straw broke up right-hander Grant Holmes' no-hit bid. The Blue Jays' oss took some of the glow away from the feel-good media conference in the afternoon. Guerrero, 26, could have become a free agent after the season but said how much he wanted to remain in Toronto. "I always thought about this," he said in the afternoon. "Always. Since I signed here, I always thought I was going to be a Blue Jay forever. That's what happened today. Thank God we did it. I'm going to be a Blue Jay forever." Toronto is scheduled to start right-hander Kevin Gausman (1-1, 2.33 ERA) on Tuesday in the middle contest of the three-game series. In three career starts against Atlanta, he is 0-1 with a 2.29 ERA. The loss came last season, when he allowed three runs in six innings. Right-hander Spencer Schwellenbach (1-0, 0.45) is Atlanta's scheduled starter on Tuesday. He is 0-1 with a 5.40 ERA in one career start against Toronto. That came last season, when he allowed three runs in five innings. On Monday, the Braves received two home runs and five RBIs from Austin Riley plus a two-run blast from Sean Murphy. Each player has four home runs this season and combined have one fewer homer than the Blue Jays. "It was a complete win," Riley said. "We needed that." The Braves are trying to overcome an 0-7 start to the season. "Hopefully, it will breed confidence. ... and we go on a roll," manager Brian Snitker said after Monday's win. "There were a lot of positive things tonight." The Braves were without Marcell Ozuna, who is listed as day-to-day with hip inflammation. He was sent to Atlanta for an MRI, and it showed no serious injury. "So he'll be back and getting treatment every day," Snitker said before Monday's game. "He'll kind of take it as a day-to-day thing." Ozuna will not play in Toronto. He started Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays but was removed because of the hip. Atlanta reinstated left-hander Aaron Bummer from the bereavement list Monday and optioned right-hander Michael Petersen to Triple-A Gwinnett. Bummer replaced Holmes with two outs in the eighth and allowed two inherited runners to score and also gave up a run in the ninth. Snitker said he was pleased to need only two pitchers after the bullpen was used heavily against Tampa Bay on the weekend. --Field Level Media

Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Easton Lucas is scheduled to put his unblemished record on the line Monday night against the visiting Atlanta Braves. Lucas is 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA after his first two starts of the season -- the first starts of his major league career. The 28-year-old will be making his 17th major league appearance. "You hope it's one of those feel-good stories, right?" Toronto manager John Schneider said. "He's done a really good job of taking advantage of every resource available and understanding, at this point in his career, how his stuff works and really how good he can be. "I've said it before, we've liked him since the first time we saw him. He's got a little bit of momentum and he's running with it. It happens at different times for people." Lucas has allowed four hits and three walks with 11 strikeouts in 10 1/3 innings over the two starts. He has yet to face the Braves in his career. "I have a lot of confidence in where I'm throwing my pitches," Lucas said. "That was kind of something that clicked at the end of spring training. I was struggling to command my fastball last year and just dealing with the adrenaline. So this year, I've focused on being under control and commanding my fastball. After that, it opens up everything else." Lucas was claimed off waivers from the Detroit Tigers last August. The struggling Braves are scheduled to start right-hander Grant Holmes (0-1, 4.00). He has faced the Blue Jays on one occasion, allowing three runs on five hits in two-thirds of an inning of relief last season. The Blue Jays are coming off a 4-5 road trip that ended on Sunday with a 7-6 win in 10 innings over the Baltimore Orioles. Toronto split two games at Baltimore after the series opener on Friday was postponed. First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has yet to hit a home run this season after going 2-for-5 with one RBI (his seventh) on Sunday. He also committed a two-run error. Also of concern for Toronto is George Springer, who left the game on Sunday with what was described as left wrist discomfort, the result of swings while striking out in the fifth inning. X-rays were negative. "A little bit of a zinger, best possible outcome so far" Schneider said. Springer is batting .375 with a 1.040 OPS, two homers and 10 RBIs. The Braves still are trying to get untracked after losing 8-3 to the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday in the rubber match of a three-game series. The Braves are 4-11 after starting the season 0-7. "I'm glass half full because we've got too much baseball to play," Braves manager Brian Snitker said. "We've seen it the last few years, we can turn this thing around and run off a good streak, too. So we just have to hang in there and compartmentalize it and take it a day at a time and go out and win a game tomorrow." Braves first baseman Matt Olson said one focus in on winning series. "That's the name of the game," Olson said. "That's the mindset we want to be in. Had a chance to (Sunday) and just got away there at the end. Really, that's the baseline of it. We've got to continue to try to win series. Get to Toronto, have a good series, bring it back home, get it rolling." --Field Level Media

The Baltimore Orioles were welcoming a day off this week, yet also anxious to get back to work and fix glitches from the first couple of weeks of the season. Now they'll have to wait until Saturday's game against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. The series opener scheduled for Friday night was rained out and rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader July 29. That means this weekend's matchup is reduced to a two-game series. The Orioles have several areas to address following a 2-4 road trip. "Fortunately, it's a long season," Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. "We've just got to get going." The Blue Jays might welcome the extra time between games. They're coming off four straight games in Boston, where they went 3-1. But the last two of those went extra innings -- 11 and 10 innings, respectively. The Orioles have been disturbed by a lack of consistency at the plate and on the mound. They've yet to win back-to-back games, something that's further unfamiliar to some of the team's younger players after Baltimore's strong starts the past couple of seasons. "We got a lot of games left," said Orioles first baseman Ryan Mountcastle. "You always want to go out there and win and that's what we're trying to do. The last week has been a little tough." Through 14 games, only three Toronto players have hit home runs -- and slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is not one of them. That's not a concern at this point, said manager John Schneider. "The quality of the at-bats have been so encouraging up and down the lineup," Schneider said. "We absolutely know the power is going to come from the guys that we expect it to come from." Toronto's offense is lagging behind its pitching, but playing seven games in New York and Boston already has been a factor. "A lot of it is weather, a lot of it is getting into the flow of the season," Schneider said. Schneider was critical of umpiring, particularly with the ball-strike calls, after the final game in Boston. The X account UmpScorecards suggested home-plate umpire Manny Gonzalez called 92 percent of the pitches in Thursday's 4-3 loss correctly -- a slightly below-average showing -- but the account also calculated Gonzalez' misses favored Boston by 2.04 runs. In other words, it could have been a 1-run Toronto win and a four-game sweep. Schneider didn't back off from his critique Thursday, though he did offer a deeper assessment. "I have a lot of respect for every single one of them," Schneider said of umpires. The Orioles and Blue Jays split four games to begin the season in Toronto. Saturday's pitching assignments weren't altogether clear following the postponement. Baltimore right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano (1-1, 2.89 ERA) and Toronto right-hander Bowden Francis (1-1, 3.18) were the slated starters for Friday night, so they could be shifted to Saturday's game. If either of them are bumped, it would likely mean left-hander Cade Povich (0-1, 3.48) for the Orioles and/or right-hander Jose Berrios (1-1, 4.58) for the Blue Jays. Povich didn't throw in the first series against Toronto, while Berrios is 10-2 with a 3.21 ERS over 17 career starts vs. the Orioles. However, Berrios suffered the loss in the March 27 season opener -- surrendering three home runs and six runs overall in a 12-2 loss. Povich went 0-2 against the Blue Jays as a rookie last year. --Field Level Media

Trevor Story's groundout to second in the 10th inning drove in David Hamilton with the game-winning run as the Boston Red Sox earned a 4-3 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday. George Springer's sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th scored Andres Gimenez to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 lead, but Jarren Duran led off the bottom of the inning with an RBI single that scored Blake Sabol to tie the game at 3. Toronto reliever Nick Sandlin (0-2) gave up two hits and hit two batters in the 10th before Story came to the plate with one out and the bases loaded. The victory gave Boston its only win in the four-game series. Toronto prevailed 6-2 Monday, 6-1 Tuesday and 2-1 Wednesday. Boston's Brennan Bernardino (1-0) got the win despite allowing a run in the 10th - his only inning on the mound. Boston starting pitcher Walker Buehler tossed 6 1/3 innings. He allowed a run on four hits, struck out seven and walked one. Story, Duran and Rafael Devers each had two hits for the Red Sox. Tyler Heineman collected three of Toronto's eight hits. Toronto starter Chris Bassitt exited the mound with two on and two outs in the sixth. He gave up one run on five hits, struck out five and walked one. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, when Duran walked, stole second, moved to third on a Devers fly ball to right and scored on Alex Bregman's two-out single. The Blue Jays took the lead by scoring twice in the seventh. After Heineman's single drove in Will Wagner to make it 1-1, Myles Straw scored on Story's throwing error when the Red Sox were trying to complete what would have been an inning-ending double play. Rob Refsnyder made it a 2-2 contest when he scored from third on a Yimi Garcia wild pitch with two outs in the eighth. --Field Level Media

After being swept by the New York Mets last weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays will aim to finish a sweep of their own when they conclude a four-game road series against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday afternoon. Toronto set up the opportunity for its second sweep in three series with a 2-1 Wednesday win in 11 innings. In a game that featured just 10 combined hits, the Jays again were led from the mound as Kevin Gausman struck out 10 over eight innings of four-hit ball. Blue Jays opponents have scored two or fewer runs eight times this season, and the team's top four hitters did all the damage Wednesday, with leadoff hitter Bo Bichette's sacrifice fly for an RBI making the ultimate difference. "I know it's April, but that's a really good win," Toronto manager John Schneider said. On the day that his 14-year, $500 million contract extension -- the third-largest deal in baseball history -- was made official, Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. recorded three hits and scored a run. It was his fourth multi-hit game in the last six, and the 26-year-old is batting .288 this season. "If I tell you that it's not a big relief, I'd be lying to you. It is," Guerrero said through an interpreter about the extension. "It's always been my goal to be here, and I feel like I accomplished that. I am very, very happy to stay here and be a Blue Jay." Like Gausman, Chris Bassitt (1-0, 0.71 ERA) has exemplified Toronto's outstanding starting pitching in the early going. In his first two starts, the 36-year-old has allowed only one earned run and struck out 16 across 12 2/3 innings, and he is scheduled to pitch Thursday against Boston right-hander Walker Buehler (1-1, 8.68). Bassitt, who spun 6 2/3 innings of shutout, four-hit ball with nine strikeouts in a Saturday no-decision against the Mets (the Jays lost 3-2), is 2-2 with a 2.40 ERA in seven career starts against Boston. In four starts against the Red Sox last season, he lost two and took two no-decisions. Following a five-game winning streak, the Red Sox offense has just four runs over the first three games of this series. On Wednesday, Rafael Devers continued his hot streak -- 13-for-30 since an 0-for-19 start -- with two doubles. But the rest of manager Alex Cora's lineup has to turn things around, especially after a 14-strikeout night. "We just have to make adjustments," Cora said. "I trust our players, I trust this group. It's one bad night. We've got to show up (Thursday) and try to win a game." A reigning World Series champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Buehler has struggled in his first two regular-season starts in a Red Sox uniform. Buehler earned the win in a 13-9 victory over St. Louis last Friday in Boston's home opener, but it was a five-run first inning from the offense that helped him overcome allowing five runs on seven hits across five frames. He lasted just 4 1/3 innings of a 4-3 loss on March 29 at the Texas Rangers. "It's been so long since I've been so dominant as I want to be or been the guy that I want to be," Buehler said. "I've had it for two or three starts at a time throughout the past year and a half, especially in the playoffs. ... I'm not going to keep hanging my hat on the fact I showed up in October. I want to show up in April, May, June, July and August and go about it that way." Buehler dealt seven shutout innings in his lone career start against Toronto in 2019. He took a no-decision in a 2-0 win for the Dodgers. --Field Level Media