No Springer In Tonight’s Lineup

I hoped Springer would play. Apparently, he did batting practice, ran on the field, and seemed pretty good, but they decided to have him sit and hope to play on Friday.

Davis Schneider leads off and plays left field. Bo Bichette is DH.

And the Dodgers have shuffled their lineup, trying to find some offense.

Today’s Lineups

BLUE JAYS	DODGERS
Davis Schneider – LF	Shohei Ohtani – DH
Vladimir Guerrero – 1B	Will Smith – C
Bo Bichette – DH	Mookie Betts – SS
Alejandro Kirk – C	Freddie Freeman – 1B
Daulton Varsho – CF	Teoscar Hernandez – RF
Ernie Clement – 3B	Tommy Edman – 2B
Addison Barger – RF	Max Muncy – 3B
Isiah Kiner-Falefa – 2B	Enrique Hernandez – CF
Andres Gimenez – SS	Alex Call – LF
Trey Yesavage – RHP	Blake Snell – LHP

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The team says that, even though Chris Bassitt pitched the last two days, he is available today. As is Louis Varland (let’s face it, if we play two games a day, and Varland had pitched twice in the last two days, he’d

be available tonight.

And it is the playoff, everybody is available.

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The World Series is doing great business in Canada and Japan. I don’t know about the US: