Bichette exits after injuring knee rounding first base

TORONTO — The Blue Jays are holding their breath after star shortstop Bo Bichette left Monday night time’s sport in opposition to the Orioles with proper knee discomfort.

After capturing a ball down the first-base line and into the right-field nook within the third inning, a trademark hit for Bichette, he was rounding first base at full pace when he determined to placed on the brakes. As Bichette stopped working, he reached all the way down to seize his proper knee and was in apparent ache.

Bichette, noticeably limping, left the sphere with a Blue Jays coach and supervisor John Schneider.

Bichette is the participant Toronto can least afford to lose in the course of a postseason race, and this occurring in the course of its greatest sequence of the season thus far solely provides to the fear. Not solely is the 25-year-old an offensive pressure, batting .321 and simply main the American League with 144 hits, he’s additionally a close to lock to play day-after-day. With Bichette taking part in 159 video games every of the previous two seasons and almost each sport to this point in 2023, the Blue Jays have hardly ever wanted one other shortstop.

Santiago Espinal entered the sport at shortstop.