Blue Jays’ Berrios roughed up for eight earned runs in season debut

The redemption season for Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jose Berrios received off to a rocky begin on Monday evening.

Making his season debut towards the Kansas City Royals, Berrios gave up 9 hits and eight earned runs over 5 and two-thirds innings of labor.

Not precisely best.

Especially when two out of the three Blue Jays’ starters earlier to Berrios additionally had less-than-ideal outings.

Berrios had just a few strong innings, however actually received smacked round in each the primary and fourth innings en path to the eight earned runs.

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Toronto’s solely starter to actually impress via 4 video games was Kevin Gausman, who pitched towards the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday. Gausman gave up three runs – all of which had been unearned – and eight hits whereas putting out seven, however was credited with the loss.

Berrios, 28, is trying to regular himself in 2023 after having an up-and-down 2022 season with Toronto. Last yr, the right-hander completed with a 12-7 report and a 5.23 ERA over 32 begins.

The Blue Jays’ offence additionally didn’t assist Berrios out because the crew picked up simply three hits and a single run with him on the mound.

Thankfully for each Berrios and Blue Jays followers, Monday was simply recreation 4 of 162, and there’s loads of baseball left to play.

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