Gausman, Bichette shine in Jays loss to Guardians

TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays would person loved to observe a trifecta of affirmative results connected Kentucky Derby day.

But aft Daniel Schneemann’s archetypal vocation expansive slam location tally successful the ninth inning pushed the Cleveland Guardians to a 5-3 come-from-behind win, they settled for a return-to-form outing from starter Kevin Gausman and shortstop Bo Bichette.

Bichette led disconnected with a solo blast into the left-field seats to drawback a 63-game homer-less streak.

Last Sunday, Gausman matched a nine grounds with an abysmal 53-pitch 3rd inning against the New York Yankees. He issued 5 walks and departed earlier the inning was over.

On his mode to the dugout, helium shouted astatine umpire Chris Conroy and was ejected from the game.

Gausman rebounded with a one-hit, nine-strikeout effort implicit six shutout innings.

“You ne'er truly cognize until the crippled starts,” the 34-year-old Gausman said. “But I felt good. We did a bully occupation with the unit talking and changing immoderate things with my betterment this week. More importantly, I was capable to spell retired determination and springiness america a coagulated start, getting backmost to being my mean self.”

After giving up a two-out azygous to pesky Cleveland leadoff hitter Steven Kwan successful the 3rd inning, Gausman retired the last 10 batters helium faced.

Bichette gave Gausman an aboriginal pb with his first-pitch homer. Bichette’s past agelong shot was connected May 27, 2024.

“We were giving it to him a small bit,” Toronto manager John Schneider said. “I deliberation he’s relieved.”

As Bichette rounded 2nd basal helium glanced skyward and determination was plentifulness of exuberance waiting for him successful the dugout.

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“People were excited for me, for sure,” Bichette said. “I was excited for myself.”

Bichette besides was excited for his seasoned teammate, Gausman.

“He was great,” Bichette said. “He was what you expect of him astir of the time.”

Gausman departed aft 94 pitches, throwing a 97.8 miles per hr fastball to instrumentality Nolan Jones with his last pitch.

“I thought Kev was great,” Schneider said. “We’ve been talking astir it for 5 days. No 1 truly knows the reply to wherefore helium had an inning similar helium had successful New York.

“He had a batch of plaything and miss (on Saturday). He benignant of emptied the vessel determination successful the sixth inning. But we weren’t expecting a diminished mentation of Kevin today.”

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published May 3, 2025.