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Instant Reaction: Blue Jays get back in the win column with a 6-2 victory over the Braves
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Ryley Delaney
Mar 16, 2025, 16:00 EDTUpdated: Mar 17, 2025, 06:53 EDT
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The Toronto Blue Jays are back in the win column.
On Sunday afternoon, the Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves in Dunedin by a score of 6-2 to bring their Spring Training record to 13-8. They have a half-game lead over the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros in the Grapefruit League.
In the bottom of the second, Alan Roden hit an RBI single to score George Springer, making it a 1-0 game. The score remained this way until the bottom of the sixth, as Andrés Giménez hit his first home run in a Blue Jays uniform. That was followed up by an RBI single from Alejandro Kirk and a sacrifice fly from Roden, giving the Jays a 4-0 lead.
The Braves made it 4-1 after Christian Cairo hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh but the Blue Jays answered back in their bottom half of the inning, as Anthony Santander hit an RBI single to make it 5-1.
Once again, the Braves scored a run in their half of the eighth, Kade Kern hit an RBI single, but Blue Jays catcher Christian Bethancourt hit an RBI double to score 2024 draftee Carter Cunningham. This gave us the final score of 6-2.

Takeaways…

José Berríos looks ready for the season to start. The Puerto Rican righty started and threw six innings while giving up just four hits, striking out seven, and generating a game-high 15 whiffs. Chad Green gave up his first earned run of Spring Training in his inning of work while Nick Sandlin also gave up an earned run in an inning pitched. Jacob Barnes struck out two in a clean inning.
Alejandro Kirk’s impressive Spring Training continued, as he finished the day with two singles in three at-bats to bring his Spring Training average to .355 and his OPS to .901. Anthony Santander also had two of the Blue Jays’ 10 hits.
Andrés Giménez’s home run in the bottom of the sixth was his first home run as a Blue Jay. It went 386 feet and had an exit velocity of 103 mph, the fifth-hardest hit ball of the game. Bo Bichette hit a double, as did Christian Bethancourt.
The hardest hit ball of the day came from Alan Roden on his single, which clocked in at an impressive 109.1 mph. Daulton Varsho and Orelvis Martínez had the other two singles in the game.
On Monday, the Blue Jays head to BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida, to take on the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:05 PM ET. The Blue Jays are expected to start Chris Bassitt while Aaron Nola starts for the Phillies.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. They can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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