TORONTO – Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s back started tightening up before Friday’s 8-5 win over the New York Yankees, so he told John Schneider. The manager instructed him to be careful and the all-star first baseman managed to get through the night, with an RBI double to his credit.

Afterwards, though, Schneider checked in and asked, “with how you're feeling right now, what do you think, do you want to wait to (Saturday) or do you want a day? You've totally earned a day off,” he recalled. “He's like, ‘Yeah, that's good.’”

Good thing, too, as Saturday morning, Guerrero’s back hadn’t gotten better and he wasn’t sure about the severity of what he was dealing with. Asked if he was worried about the tightness, he said yes and no, as only one thing was certain: “It hurts."

No Guerrero, then, for the Toronto Blue Jays in their latest clash with Cam Schlittler, who noted the way they managed, and we’ll paraphrase here, to BABIP the poop out of him last........

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