The Toronto Blue Jays entered Monday night’s matchup against the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 73-52 record, sitting firmly atop the AL East. Shortly after, the Blue Jays replaced him with Ty France and announced that Guerrero was dealing with hamstring tightness.

Springer was hit by a pitch in the top of the first inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, perhaps as restitution for the two teams' bench-clearing incident on Monday. Instead of escalating the situation, Springer simply waited a couple of innings, then launched a home run off pitcher Mitch Keller his next time up.