Before February 25, 1925, singers were largely shouters. Because there was no such thing as electronic amplification, they had to be really loud if they wanted to be heard over the music in both live performance and for recording sessions. But on that Wednesday one hundred years ago, everything changed.
A singer named Art Gillham tested out a new electronic recording system that included a new thing called a “microphone.” Instead of having to sing loud, Gillham discovered he could use all the dynamics of the human voice—from a loud belt to a quiet whisper and everything in between—in his singing. This was unbelievably revolutionary.
It gave birth to the development of “microphone technique,” which changed how all singing was performed. The microphone also captured musical instruments with better accuracy. The balance between instruments and instruments and voice could be adjusted.
The introduction of the microphone was the beginning of the journey to high-fidelity sound.
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TORONTO – After learning newcomer Max Scherzer had been placed on the 15-day disabled list, Toronto Blue Jays veteran righty Chris Bassitt knew the importance of his first start of the young season.
The Blue Jays bullpen had been stretched thin in the first three games against the Baltimore Orioles, surrendering 23 runs and 30 hits, including 10 homers.
The 36-year-old Bassitt (1-0) responded with a gritty 106-pitch performance in Toronto’s 3-1 win to split the season-opening four-game series on Sunday.
“We’ve had this plan of (Scherzer) not him missing time, making sure that he gets off on the right foot,” said Bassitt, knowing Scherzer began the year battling thumb inflammation.
But the ailment got the best of Scherzer. He left his Blue Jays debut after three innings on Saturday with a strained right lat that Scherzer said was a compensatory injury.
“Whenever he can come back and help us out,” Bassitt said. “That’s when we need them.”
The onus is on Jose Berrios, Kevin Gausman, Bassitt and Bowden Francis to provide quality starts until Scherzer is ready to rejoin Toronto’s rotation.
Bassitt did his part in the Blue Jays’ (2-2) series finale, giving up eight hits with seven strikeouts and two walks.
After surrendering a run in the first inning on a wild pitch, Bassitt exhibited his savvy by pitching out of jams to leave two runners on base in the third, fourth and fifth innings.
In the third, he coaxed Cedric Mullins into a fly out with runners on second and third base. In the fourth, shortstop Bo Bichette started an inning-ending double play.
In the fifth inning, Bassitt survived a nine-pitch at-bat against Mullins, striking him out. Mullins killed the home side with five hits in the series.
“The biggest part of it is just get it over with,” Bassitt said of the lengthy Mullins at-bat. “I’m trying to go deep into the game, trying to take the workload off of our bullpen.
“I was hoping to go seven or eight today, and I was trying to be really efficient.”
Toronto manager John Schneider felt Bassitt’s solid mix of his splitter, cutter and sinker was the difference.
“He executed at a really high level,” Schneider said. “His mix was really good.”
Although Bassitt tossed the wild pitch, Toronto catcher Tyler Heineman blamed himself for the lone run.
“Chris was fantastic,” Heineman said. “That is a really good Orioles lineup. He navigated through a lot of traffic in the beginning.
“And if it wasn’t for the missed block by me, he would have been completely clean. I thought he did a tremendous job mixing pitches and mixing locations. He gave us what we needed when we were thin on a bullpen day.”
Heineman homers
Heineman went 5 1/2 years and 256 at-bats between homers.
The backup catcher slammed a leadoff solo shot into the left-field seats in the seventh inning. His only other homer was a two-run blast in his fourth career Major League game, leading the Miami Marlins to a 4-2 win against the New York Mets on Sept. 26, 2019.
He celebrated his latest long ball with a bat flip.
“He’s been working on that all spring,” Schneider joked.
“I’m gonna go with the fact that I had a lot of pine tar on my hand and it got stuck,” Heineman said, facetiously. “To be honest, I don’t remember doing it until I just saw it (on video).
“It was a little too big. So I apologize if that offended anybody because that was not intended.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2025.
London, Ont. - Kasper Halttunen of the London Knights scores a third period goal against Carter George in a 6-3 London win in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarter-finals on March 30, 2025 at Canada Life Place.
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London Knights captain Denver Barkey scored twice and added three assists as the Knights defeated the Owen Sound Attack 6-3 in Game 2 of their Western Conference quarter-final series.
London leads the series 2-0, but the second win of the series was anything but easy.
After the Knights zoomed ahead with four goals in the opening period on Sunday at Canada Life Place, the Attack nearly caught up in the second, scoring three times to make it 4-3. The game sat that way until a power play goal by Kasper Halttunen with 3:13 remaining gave London some breathing room.
Barkey led it all off with his second goal of the post-season on what was meant to be a pass. Barkey was looking for Easton Cowan at the side of the net but the puck hit the skate of an Attack defender and deflected through the legs of Owen Sound goalie Carter George for a 1-0 London lead.
One second short of four minutes later, Barkey did find Cowan at the side of the net and despite the Toronto Maple Leafs prospect breaking his stick on the shot, the puck found its way across the goal line for Cowan’s first of the playoffs at the 9:37 mark of the first period.
Barkey found Landon Sim for his second of the post-season on a power play at 11:40 and the L.A. Kings prospect Jared Woolley joined a rush and finished a three-way passing play to score the fourth goal of the first 20 minutes and the Knights took a 4-0 advantage to the intermission.
Owen Sound climbed back into the game in the second period with three goals of their own.
The Attack scored on a power play, short-handed and at even strength as Pierce Mbuyi, Bruce McDonald and Tristan Delisle all found the back of the London net and got to within one heading into the third period.
Knights goalie Austin Elliott was called on to make some key saves in the third period. George kept the puck out at the other end of the ice until an Oliver Bonk shot was stopped by George and Halttunen pounced on the rebound to score his second goal of the post season to put London ahead by a pair.
Barkey sealed things into an empty net with 1:07 remaining.
Owen Sound went 1-for-8 on the power play.
London was 2-for-4.
The Knights outshot the Attack 41-25.
The playoff bump
OHL teams combined to score 7.32 goals per game in the 2024-25 regular season.
Through the first 10 games of the playoffs that number was up. Way up.
Teams combined for 8.9 goals per game.
The Erie Otters and the Saginaw Spirit have been key contributors. The Otters have come out on top in the first two games by scores of 8-5 and 9-5.
The Windsor Spitfires have scored seven goals in each of their first two games and the Knights hit six goals in each of their first two playoff games.
Up next
The series between London and the Attack now shifts to Owen Sound for Games 3 and 4.
The teams will play the third game on Tuesday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
Game 4 will happen on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m.
Coverage of both games will begin at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at 980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
WATCH: The Montreal Canadiens lost a critical match Thursday night, falling 6-4 to the Philadelphia Flyers. This follows a loss in St-Louis earlier in the week.
It’s the final ten games of the season and the Canadiens have a good chance at a playoff spot. Granted, their road trip has gone poorly, but they recovered Sunday with a 4-2 shocker in Florida.
The Canadiens have managed three straight wins over the Panthers this season.
Wilde Horses
Lane Hutson’s record March continued with another sensational day. Earning another three assists, his play is near the top in NHL history for a rookie defenceman and he now has the most power-play points in the league for a defender.
Hutson’s first assist was a smooth pass to Patrik Laine as the Finn let it fly on the left side like he always does. The angle was horrific, but Laine still managed to rip it short-side high.
The second assist was secondary as Hutson fed Nick Suzuki, who found Juraj Slafkovsky, who benefitted – on his birthday– from a nice bounce off a defender when he was trying to go cross-crease to Cole Caufield.
The third assist was the best of the trio – a pass that one lacks words to explain. Through a mass of bodies in the corner, Hutson got the puck to a wide-open Suzuki on the other side, where he one-timed it for his third point of the day.
The three assists for Hutson moved him to 54 assists on the year. The greatest rookie defender in history for assists is Larry Murphy with 60. Second is Chris Chelios with 55. No one else is ahead of Hutson with 54 assists. Remarkable.
For points, Hutson is also moving up the charts with 59, putting him among the top ten in history. He’ll likely finish around sixth spot, currently held by Chelios with 64 points. Chelios retired in 2010.
All of the defenders who are top-15 in points for a rookie played in an era when the total goals scored in a game averaged 11. Hutson is among this upper-echelon group when the goals-per-game average is six. This is one of the greatest rookie defenceman seasons in the history of hockey. He was drafted 62nd.
The other trend worth noting, which could end up being extremely important, is the head coach choosing to go with Emil Heineman on the second line instead of Joshua Roy. It changed the defensive makeup of the line in a huge way. That threesome has needed a player with a good defensive footprint all season long. Heineman is that player. He is a dog around the puck. He fights for every inch. He throws his body around when he battles. For a winger, he has outstanding hockey sense.
Martin St. Louis noted that Alex Newhook is among his most improved players this season. He is bringing a skating stride that he has not exhibited before in his career. Not the actual speed, but the desire to keep using that stride in traffic. Adding Heineman to the line allows Newhook to explore that speed even more knowing someone behind him is playing an intelligent brand of hockey in support.
Brendan Gallagher added the empty-netter. His line with Christian Dvorak and Josh Anderson was solid all day.
Wilde Goats
This was a strong effort from the Canadiens. Florida is playing superb hockey and Montreal has been playing the defending Stanley Cup champions well all season. There’s hardly anything negative to point out, except this: Samuel Montembeault cannot let in that second goal on a 35-foot slap shot through his legs. The five-hole available on a long shot is not how goaltending is done in 2025. The entire system of tending is created to not let anything through you.
Montembeault has to bear down and remember the goaltending structure on long shots for a goalie. In 2025, high corners are made available to protect the middle. All of the middle.
It’s a shame for Montembeault because he is stellar on shots from in close. He just has to get that basic technique back on the long shots.
Wilde Cards
When fatigue hits, a player starts to lose attention to detail: they don’t concentrate as well, they begin to cheat, they cut corners. That’s how the Canadiens were playing leading up to the Florida contest. However, they showed Sunday that they have it in them to regroup in the final nine games of the season.
The Canadiens played a lot of hockey this week. Having games Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday in four different cities is taxing, but they showed their better game is close.
The Canadiens can now rest until Tuesday, then take advantage of the best April schedule of the teams fighting for that final playoff spot.
Montreal has six home games and only three on the road. Only one the trips – to Nashville – is at all taxing; the other two are close destinations – Toronto and Ottawa. It cannot be stressed enough how difficult it is for the other clubs who are essentially tied with Montreal right now.
Detroit has the hardest schedule in the entire league with their nine left with Dallas, Carolina, Florida, Toronto, Tampa Bay and St. Louis on the docket. Their easy games are listed as Montreal and New Jersey.
Next up are the New York Rangers whose remaining games include Tampa twice, Carolina, Florida, Minnesota and New Jersey among their hardest, and the Islanders and Philadelphia listed as their easiest. The Rangers have the fourth-most-difficult schedule.
And it gets better for Montreal. The Islanders are listed as the sixth-most-difficult schedule with Washington twice, Carolina, Tampa, Minnesota, Columbus, the Rangers, the Devils and only two expected easier match-ups against Nashville and Philadelphia.
The Blue Jackets are listed as the eighth-most-difficult schedule with two against the Capitals, two against the Senators, Colorado, Toronto and the Islanders. On the easier side is Nashville, Buffalo and Philadelphia.
That’s four teams the Canadiens are fighting with for that final spot and all have a top-ten most difficult schedule. The target for that final playoff spot, realistically, is six wins and three losses, but five wins and four losses might just do it. None of those four teams have a likely path to six wins, or even five wins.
Now to the Canadiens with the 28th-most-difficult schedule, or fifth-easiest. They have nine games left with the hardest opposition being Florida, Carolina, Toronto and Ottawa. The easier games are against Chicago, Nashville, Philadelphia again, Boston and Detroit.
The Canadiens are the only club with an excellent home-away balance, with six home and three away. The Blue Jackets are the only other club with more home than away. All others are on the road more.
Out of the five teams, Montreal has by far the easiest path to five or six wins in the final nine. Columbus has the second easiest path, and it is difficult to imagine a path for the other three to get five or six wins.
While it has been a difficult week, the Habs will get a chance to get all their energy back at home where they will stay, for the most part. The goal was to be even for that playoff spot heading into this final nine game stretch, and they have accomplished it.
The hard travel is behind them. The hard opposition is mostly behind them. They’ve toiled a lot while their competition is not yet done toiling.
It’s their advantage to be claimed – let’s enjoy the ride.
Brian Wilde, a Montreal-based sports writer, brings you Call of the Wilde on globalnews.ca after each Canadiens game.
TORONTO – George Springer’s two-run single and starter Chris Bassitt’s one-run performance in six innings of work was enough for a Toronto Blue Jays’ 3-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday to split the season-opening four-game series.
Backup catcher Tyler Heineman drove his second career homer into the left field seats to lead off the seventh inning for Toronto (2-2). The homer came off reliever Cionel Perez to provide an insurance run.
Bassitt (1-0) scattered eight hits, struck out seven and walked two in his 106-pitch performance before 21,069 fans at Rogers Centre.
Relievers Brendon Little and Yariel Rodriguez carried on for Bassitt each with a shutout inning. Jeff Hoffman pitched a flawless 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts for his first save of the season.
Ryan O’Hearn scored on a wild pitch in the first inning for an early Baltimore (2-2) lead.
Tomoyuki Sugano’s (0-1) Major League debut ended after four innings because of cramping. The 35-year-old Orioles righty surrendered two runs on four hits, two walks and a strikeout.
Springer also smashed a one-out double in the eighth inning off the left-field wall.
Takeaways
Orioles: Designated O’Hearn continued his hot start with a double, single and a walk in his three plate appearances to extend his hit streak to four games. He’s opened the season with six hits in 13 at-bats with two walks.
Blue Jays: Right-handed starter Max Scherzer was placed on the 15-day disabled list before the game. Lefty Easton Lucas was recalled from triple-A Buffalo to take Scherzer’s spot on the roster.
Key moment
With runners on second and third, Bassitt struck out outfielder Cedric Mullins to end the fifth inning. Mullins also left teammates on second and third in the third inning.
Key stat
After two singles, two doubles and a walk in his five plate appearances on Saturday, Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette led off the first inning with a walk. His streak of safely reaching base six straight times ended with a groundout in the third inning.
Up next
Bowden Francis will make his season debut as Toronto opens a three-game series against the Washington Nationals on Monday. The Nationals will counter with Calgary’s Mike Soroka.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2025.
(L-R:) Jens-Frederik Nielsen the leader of the Demokraatit party and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory.
Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island in the Atlantic, is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes.
“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post.
“We must not act out of fear. We must respond with peace, dignity and unity. And it is through these values that we must clearly, clearly and calmly show the American president that Greenland is ours,” Nielsen added.
“It was like that yesterday. That’s how it is today. And that’s how it will be in the future,” he concluded his post.
Nielsen’s post comes a day after the U.S. president told NBC News that military force wasn’t off the table with regard to acquiring Greenland.
In Saturday’s interview, Trump allowed that “I think there’s a good possibility that we could do it without military force.”
“This is world peace, this is international security,” he said, but added: “I don’t take anything off the table.”
Greenland’s residents and politicians have reacted with anger to Trump’s repeated suggestions, with Danish leaders also pushing back.
Trump also said “I don’t care,” when asked in the NBC interview what message this would send to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has invaded Ukraine and annexed several of its provinces in defiance of international law.
WATCH ABOVE: Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre was campaigning in Toronto as polls show the Greater Toronto Area could be decisive in this election. Poilievre announced another tax break and brushed off concerns about turmoil within the Conservative Party, pitching himself as the best choice to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump. Kyle Benning has more.
As the federal election campaign enters its second week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled a new economic policy proposal aimed at reducing taxes on investments, pitching his party as the best choice to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Speaking at a plastics manufacturing facility in North York, Ont., on Sunday, Poilievre said the Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut is designed to incentivize Canadian investors to reinvest capital gains domestically by delaying their tax hit if the proceeds stay in Canada.
Meanwhile, at a campaign stop in Port Moody, B.C., NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said the Conservatives appeared to be in “internal disarray” over how to respond to the United States.
“Instead of fighting for Canadians, they are fighting among themselves,” Singh said.
Poilievre brushed aside suggestions he focus his campaign more squarely on the threat posed by the U.S., arguing the reinvestment tax cut would bring billions of dollars into the economy to help Canada fight Trump’s tariffs from a position of strength.
The Conservative leader cited how in 2023 alone, $460 billion more in investment was sent to the U.S. than returned to Canada.
He pledged that the tax break would allow for more investments in Canada and promote economic growth. “These investments will rebuild our industry, restart our economy and allow us to become self-reliant and sovereign from the Americans,” Poilievre said.
He further pledged that this tax break would allow for more pipelines, mines, factories and export terminals to get Canadian goods overseas.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney had no public events scheduled on March 30.
A new Ipsos poll for Global News released Sunday suggests 44 per cent of Canadians view Carney as their top choice for next prime minister, compared to 33 per cent for Poilievre, and eight per cent for Singh.
On Sunday, Sophie Chandauka, the Sentebale chair, told Sky News that the Duke of Sussex unleashed “the Sussex (PR) machine” on her when he publicly resigned from the charity as a patron of Sentebale, an African charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana.
“The only reason I’m here… is because at some point on Tuesday, Prince Harry authorized the release of a damaging piece of news to the outside world without informing me or my country directors, or my executive director,” Chandauka told the outlet.
“And can you imagine what that attack has done for me, on me and the 540 individuals in the Sentebale organizations and their family?” she said, adding, “That is an example of harassment and bullying at scale.”
Chandauka described how the prince’s Netflix deal interfered with a scheduled fundraiser and how an incident with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, became a source of friction.
She told the outlet that a polo fundraiser scheduled in Miami last year almost fell apart when Harry asked to bring a camera crew along that was filming him for a Netflix series.
The cost of the venue skyrocketed when it became a commercial venture and they scrambled to find another host, which Harry arranged through his connections, she said.
Meghan’s surprise appearance at the event led to an awkward moment during the trophy presentation after the match, Chandauka said.
In a video that circulated on social media, Chandauka tried to pose next to Harry as he held the trophy in one hand and had his other wrapped around Meghan. But the duchess appeared to gesture that Chandauka move farther from Harry, forcing her to duck under the silver cup to get into the photo.
The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center in Wellington, Fla.. Picture date: Friday April 12, 2024.
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“The international press captured this, and there was a lot of talk about the duchess and the choreography on stage and whether she should have been there and her treatment of me,” Chandauka said.
She said she rejected Harry’s request that she issue a statement in support of Meghan, because “we cannot be an extension of the Sussexes.” (Harry and Meghan declined to offer a formal response to Sky News in regards to Chandauka’s claims.)
Prince Seeiso, who co-founded the charity with Harry, and the board of trustees also joined Harry in leaving Sentebale following the breakdown of the relationship between board members and Chandauka.
Chandauka said she had reported Sentebale’s trustees to the Charity Commission, a government department in the U.K. that regulates philanthropic organizations, and had filed papers in a British court to prevent her removal.
In a statement, she made allegations of misconduct at the charity without naming anyone.
“There are people in this world who behave as though they are above the law and mistreat people, and then play the victim card and use the very press they disdain to harm people who have the courage to challenge their conduct,” Chandauka said.
This, she said, was the “story of a woman who dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny and misogynoir — and the cover-up that ensued.”
When speaking with Sky News, Chandauka said Harry had interfered with her whistleblower complaint. “So it’s a cover-up, and the prince is involved,” she said.
Chanduaka also alleged that there was a significant drop in donors after Harry and Meghan left official royal duties in January 2020, and eventually settled in California.
The biggest risk to the charity was the “toxicity of its lead patron’s brand,” Chandauka told the Financial Times.
Dr Sophie Chandauka MBE, Chair of Sentebale, Nacho Figueras, Sentebale Ambassador and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Co-Founding Patron of Sentebale, pose for a photo during the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup on August 12, 2023 in Singapore.
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Prince Harry co-founded Sentebale in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 after he spent time working at an orphanage in Lesotho during a gap year.
In a joint statement on March 26, the princes said, “What’s transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock that we have to do this, but we have a continued responsibility to Sentebale’s beneficiaries, so we will be sharing all of our concerns with the Charity Commission as to how this came about.”
“Nearly 20 years ago, we founded Sentebale in honor of our mothers. Sentebale means ‘forget-me-not’ in Sesotho, the local language of Lesotho, and it’s what we’ve always promised for the young people we’ve served through this charity. Today is no different.”
“With heavy hearts, we have resigned from our roles as patrons of the organization until further notice, in support of and solidarity with the board of trustees who have had to do the same,” they continued. “It is devastating that the relationship between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation.”
“These trustees acted in the best interest of the charity in asking the chair to step down while keeping the well-being of staff in mind. In turn, she sued the charity to remain in this voluntary position, further underscoring the broken relationship,” the princes’ statement continued.
Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso thanked the trustees for their “service over the years” and said they are “truly heartbroken they’ve had to follow through with this act.”
“Although we may no longer be patrons, we will always be its founders, and we will never forget what this charity is capable of achieving when it is in the right care,” they concluded.
“We are assessing the issues to determine the appropriate regulatory steps,” the commission added.
After Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso announced their resignation, Sentebale shared a statement on social media to let their followers know that “the work continues because they deserve nothing less.”
“It’s the incredible teams on the ground — our staff and local partners — who bring our mission to life every day, walking alongside the children and young people we serve,” the statement began.
“While Trustees are key for governance and regulation, and Patrons — especially Founders — are an honour to have, it’s the people in the field who are advancing the work, no matter what,” the statement continued. “Our commitment to supporting youth in Southern Africa with better health, stronger livelihoods, and climate resilience remains as strong as ever.”
TORONTO – Right-handed pitcher Max Scherzer was placed on the 15-day injured list with right thumb inflammation by the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.
Scherzer will see a hand specialist on Monday and will miss at least one start. He was scheduled to pitch again on Friday.
The move was made less than 24 hours after the future Hall of Famer made his Blue Jays debut in a 9-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday, leaving with right lat soreness that he said was a compensatory injury caused by the thumb inflammation.
Scherzer lasted only three innings, tossing 45 pitches, yielding two runs on three hits with a strikeout and no walks.
“He felt better than he thought he would today, which leads us to believe we probably did the right thing for him long-term (on Saturday,)” Toronto manager John Schneider said.
“He’s frustrated. He wants to pitch. Hopefully, this kind of resets him. We need him to be an elite pitcher, and we want him to find the best process for him to get out on the mound.”
The 40-year-old veteran signed a one-year, US$15.5 million contract with Toronto on Feb. 4.
Scherzer is an eight-time all-star and has won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in his league three times. He has a 216-112 record over his 17-year career with a 3.16 earned-run average and 3,408 strikeouts.
Left-handed pitcher Easton Lucas was recalled from the Blue Jays’ triple-A affiliate in Buffalo, N.Y., in a corresponding move. He was available for Sunday’s series finale against the Orioles.
Schneider said Lucas and Yariel Rodriguez are options to fill Scherzer’s spot on Friday.
“(Lucas) will be active today, and it could be it could be him,” Schneider said. “It could be Yariel sliding back into the rotation at this point.
“We’re looking to see where we land after (Sunday) and in the next couple of games and go from there.”
Lucas had an 11.57 ERA in two games for Toronto last season and has a career 1-0 record with a 9.82 ERA in appearances with the Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers and Blue Jays.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2025.
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