Pregame analysis and predictions of the Toronto Blue Jays vs. Pittsburgh Pirates MLB game to be played on August 19, 2025 on ESPN.

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Fans of the Toronto Blue Jays have heard it before. The team had a bad and underwhelming offseason. Two years ago, it was losing out on Shohei Ohtani. This past offseason they pursued Pete Alonso, Corbin Burnes,

The Toronto Blue Jays and Pittsburgh Pirates got into a strange scuffle on Monday night, with outfielder Tommy Pham at its center.

Toronto entered the game with a five-game lead over the Boston Red Sox in the AL East standings, while the Yankees sat 5.5 games back. The Blue Jays are pushing for their first division title in a decade, and losing Guerrero for any length of time would make that climb much harder.

Usually when benches clear during a Major League Baseball game, it's in response to an obvious provocation: a hit batsman or a display of unsportsmanlike conduct. That wasn't the case during the seventh inning of the Pirates' victory against the Blue Jays (box score) on Monday night.

Paul Skenes kept the American League-leading Blue Jays in check for six innings, helping the Pirates secure a 5-2 victory.

T he Toronto Blue Jays were on the lookout for starting pitching help ahead of the MLB trade deadline and landed on former American League Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber, acquiring him from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for pitching prospect Khal Stephen.