Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a grand slam, Daulton Varsho hit two of Toronto’s five homers and Trey Yesavage was masterful in his fourth career big-league start as the Blue Jays defeated the visiting New York Yankees 13-7 on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series.<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement and George Springer also homered for the Blue Jays, who can sweep the best-of-five series with a win Tuesday, a 8:08 p.m. ET\u00a0start at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
Toronto pasted New York 10-1 in Game 1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Yesavage (1-0) had 11 strikeouts and one walk over 5 1\/3 no-hit and scoreless\u00a0innings. With the rookie’s pitch count at 78, he was pulled by manager John Schneider and left to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 44,764 at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
“I was just doing what I feel comfortable doing, throwing split [fastballs]\u00a0late in the count,” Yesavage said. “It just so happens they were swinging and missing at a bunch of them and chasing them down.”<\/p>\n
“We just didn’t have an answer for the split,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He was on his game.”<\/p>\n
Yesavage was selected by Toronto with the No. 20 pick last year in the amateur draft. The 22-year-old right-hander rose through four minor league levels this season before joining the Blue Jays and going 1-0 in three September starts.<\/p>\n
“I just couldn’t be happier for him,” Schneider told reporters. “The journey he’s been on this year is uneblievable.”<\/p>\n
Yesavage set a franchise post-season rookie record with his sixth strikeout of the game. He set a team playoff record in the fourth inning when he fanned his 10th batter.<\/p>\n
Fried touched for 7 earned runs<\/p>\n
The combined no-hit bid ended in the sixth inning when Aaron Judge hit an infield single off reliever Justin Bruihl. Cody Bellinger followed with a two-run homer.<\/p>\n
Yankees star left-hander Max Fried (0-1) was tagged for seven earned runs over three-plus innings. New York chipped into Toronto’s lead with a five-run seventh.<\/p>\n
After launching his 415-foot homer, Guerrero Jr. stood in the batter’s box for a couple of seconds to admire the no-doubt blast before trotting around the bases. It was the first post-season grand slam in franchise history.<\/p>\n
With unseasonably warm conditions in Toronto for a second straight day, Rogers Centre’s roof was open for the mid-afternoon start.<\/p>\n
If necessary, Game 4 would be played in New York on Wednesday. If the series goes the distance, Toronto would host Game 5 on Friday.<\/p>\n
The series winner will advance to the AL Championship Series against the winner of the other ALDS between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays’ last playoff series win came in 2016 when they reached the ALCS for a second straight year. Toronto’s last World Series win came in 1993.<\/p>\n
Toronto right-hander Shane Bieber is\u00a0scheduled to start Game 3 against left-hander Carlos Rodon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a grand slam, Daulton Varsho hit two of Toronto’s five homers and Trey Yesavage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-192248","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\/192248","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=192248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}