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Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman struck out three batters in Toronto’s 10-1 Game 1 win over the Yankees. (Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays have their first post-season victory in nine years.<\/p>\n
Alejandro Kirk had his second straight two-homer game to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 10-1 rout of the New York Yankees in Game 1 of their American League Division Series on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kirk, who drove in six runs in Toronto’s regular-season finale last Sunday, hit a solo shot in the second inning and added another in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. opened the scoring with a solo homer off Luis Gil (0-1) in the first inning and starter Kevin Gausman (1-0) was effective over 5 2\/3 frames as Toronto won its first playoff game since 2016.<\/p>\n
Gausman ran into trouble in the sixth by loading the bases with nobody out. He struck out slugger Aaron Judge before walking Cody Bellinger to make it a one-run game.<\/p>\n
After getting Ben Rice on an infield fly, reliever Louis Varland came on and struck out Giancarlo Stanton.<\/p>\n
Nathan Lukes hit a two-run double in Toronto’s four-run seventh inning. The Blue Jays tacked on another four runs in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman struck out three batters in Toronto’s 10-1 Game 1 win over the Yankees. (Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman allowed one earned run and four hits over 5 2\/3 innings. Yankees starter Luis Gil was pulled in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Game 2 in the best-of-five series is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre. Game 3 will be played at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
This is Toronto’s first appearance in the division series since 2016. The Blue Jays were swept in the wild-card round in their last three trips to the post-season.<\/p>\n
The Yankees advanced to the ALDS on Thursday with a 4-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in the deciding game of their three-game wild-card series.<\/p>\n
New York won the AL pennant last year before falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have their first post-season victory in nine years. Alejandro Kirk had his second straight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-190381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}