Yesterday, Whit Merrifield joined a short list of Blue Jays players to have pitched wearing a single digit on their back.
. Espinal pitched twice against New York in the span of a week in September 2020, against the Mets on the 11th and the Yankees on the 15th. Espinal was named an All-Star in 2022.. Kusick was brought into pitch in the sixth inning of a game in which the Blue Jays were losing 22-2 to the Angels. The game ended 24-2 and Kusick even recorded two 1-2-3 innings in the seventh and ninth..
Dave Berg once told reporters that he didn’t care about what number he wore, as long as pitchers—like his teammate Towers—don’t wear a single digit on their back.. Ureña was brought into a blowout at Dodger Stadium in August 2019 to pitch the eighth inning of a game in which the Blue Jays used seven pitchers, none of whom got more than five outs.. After pitching for the Blue Jays against the Athletics in 2018, Morales pitched for the Athletics against the Blue Jays last season.