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.

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 Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander is progressing in rehab, eyeing return as team leads tight AL East race.

The Toronto Blue Jays fell to Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night, but still sit five games ahead of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox

There are legendary baseball players — and then there's José Bautista. A figure who, at least to Toronto Blue Jays fans, is in a league of his own. During his 10 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, the six-time MLB All-Star blossomed into " one of the best power hitters" in the league — and a superstar player on Canadian soil.

On Monday, the Toronto Blue Jays took on the Pittsburgh Pirates in a series that was marked by a heated confrontation between Tommy Pham and Tyler Heineman.

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.

Usually when benches clear during a Major League Baseball game, it's in response to an obvious provocation: a hit batsman or a display of unsportsmanlike conduct. That wasn't the case during the seventh inning of the Pirates' victory against the Blue Jays (box score) on Monday night.