AL East-leading Jays place Bichette on 10-day IL

TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays enactment shortstop Bo Bichette connected the 10-day injured database Tuesday due to the fact that of a sprained near knee, retroactive to Sept. 7.

Toronto recalled outfielder Joey Loperfido from Triple-A Buffalo.

Bichette leads the majors with 181 hits and 44 doubles, and ranks 3rd with a .311 average. The two-time All-Star and two-time AL deed person has 18 homers and leads Toronto with 93 RBI successful 139 games.

Bichette was injured successful the sixth inning of Saturday's 3-1 loss astatine Yankee Stadium erstwhile helium collided with catcher Austin Wells and was tagged retired astatine location plate. Bichette hobbled disconnected the tract with the assistance of a trainer aft colliding with Wells' shin guard.

Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger made a 95.3 mph, one-hop propulsion from close tract to discontinue Bichette, who was trying to people connected a azygous by Nathan Lukes. It was the last play earlier rainfall delayed the crippled for astir 2 hours.

Bichette had X-rays during the hold and returned to onslaught retired successful his last at-bat. He did not play successful Sunday's bid finale. Toronto was disconnected Monday.

The Blue Jays pb the AL East by 2 games implicit the New York Yankees with 19 games remaining, starting with Tuesday's location crippled against Houston.