Pitching was the theme Monday night in Pittsburgh, a compelling matchup, at least on paper, pitting Kevin Gausman and Paul Skenes.

Even at the age of 37, Pirates player Tommy Pham is a late entry on the all-time Toronto Blue Jays villain list.

Pirates outfielder Tommy Pham may have wanted a piece of Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman on Monday night in Pittsburgh, but his beef with the opposition didn’t stop there.

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

Even as they're enjoying one of their best seasons in recent memory, the Blue Jays still don't know what they'll look like moving forward.

They had a 3.5 game lead and seven games to play and on the final weekend of the season in Detroit, they couldn’t find a win. The Tigers won the pennant. The Blue Jays won 96 games, led baseball in all the important statistics, didn’t make the playoffs. The Minnesota Twins won the World Series. They won 85 games that year.

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.

The Toronto Blue Jays manager was ejected during the top of the seventh inning after Davis Schneider was called out on strikes while facing Pirates reliever Evan Sisk on Monday night.

In the decade since the Blue Jays previously generated so much enthusiasm from their own fan base and around Major League Baseball, Pete Walker has seen some things. The team’s long-time pitching coach was a part of those 2015 and 2016 Jays teams that ended a long drought of playoff absences.