The way the afternoon was going, it would have been apt for Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u2019s liner to right field to hit a rock, ricochet back toward first base and go down as one more out.<\/p>\n
No, that did not happen, and Chisholm\u2019s drive touched grass and went as the first knock of the game for the Yankees, who did not get no-hit. <\/p>\n
But virtually everything else went wrong on a Saturday that might not have been historically terrible for the Yankees but was plain terrible nonetheless.<\/p>\n
The losses on a sunny weekend day that featured a comfortable breeze: Giancarlo Stanton, Ryan Weathers and a game, 4-3 to the Blue Jays in The Bronx in front of 46,231 who at least could take heart that they witnessed their team\u2019s lineup avoid ignominy.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees shortstop Jos\u00e9 Caballero (72) reacts after lining into a double play to end the fifth inning during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for the NY Post<\/p>\n
The Yankees (73-56) saw their five-game win streak snapped and fell to 3 \u00b9\/\u2082 games behind the Rays before Tampa Bay\u2019s late game, though the division race \u2014 given an added spotlight Friday, when manager Aaron Boone\u2019s group closed to within three games for the first time in weeks \u2014 felt immaterial by the end of this comedy and tragedy of errors.<\/p>\n
The day started with Boone revealing Stanton, a Hall of Fame-type bat when healthy and a clubhouse deity, had strained a calf for a third time this year.<\/p>\n
The bleakness turned to darkness in the fourth inning, when Weathers \u2014 amid his first season in pinstripes and the best season of his career, having allowed one or zero runs in five straight outings entering play \u2014 threw a sweeper to Myles Straw and immediately betrayed that something had gone wrong. <\/p>\n
He circled the mound, looked uncomfortable and soon enough exited with a trainer with what the Yankees called left forearm discomfort, which required immediate imaging.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees pitcher Ryan Weathers (40) pulls himself from the game in the fourth inning as the New York Yankees play the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
As his career-high innings mounted, Weathers has seemed a candidate to be transitioned to relief, where his stuff might play up in a bullpen that did not upgrade at the deadline. <\/p>\n
That October future is now in doubt.<\/p>\n
The hits keep on coming for the Yankees, who already are notably without Aaron Judge, Max Fried, Ryan McMahon and (briefly) Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n
But the actual hits were harder to come by.<\/p>\n
The Yankees did not record a hit against Dylan Cease until there were two outs in the seventh inning, when Chisholm\u2019s single did not find a trampoline and bounce back toward the infield.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham reacts after striking out swinging with a runner on third base to end the ninth inning on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 4-3. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Cease then served up an RBI single to Austin Wells before he was lifted after 111 pitches and just those two hits. Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. added a two-run home run against Tyler Rogers in the eighth, but that was as close as the Yankees would get.<\/p>\n
Toronto used a flurry of hits \u2014 15 in total, including three of the first four batters Weathers faced \u2014 to score single runs in the first, fourth, fifth and eighth in a game that should not have been as close as it was.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees\u2019 Giancarlo Stanton reacts in the dugout during the eighth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
There were defensive miscues from the Yankees, including George Lombard Jr.\u2019s second error in as many days, Garc\u00eda allowing a pop foul to drop, Yerry De los Santos throwing a would-be pickoff into center field and Chisholm nearly allowing an unearned run to score before recovering from a booted ground ball.<\/p>\n
And there were typical offensive issues, innings in which they were bulldozed by Cease mixed in with a few backbreakers.<\/p>\n
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Like the first two innings, when the Yankees put a runner on third with one out and came away with zero runs. In the first, it was Heliot Ramos and Garc\u00eda who failed in the clutch. <\/p>\n
In the second, it was Chisholm and Wells.<\/p>\n
They threatened again in the fifth, when Lombard and Wells walked. <\/p>\n
But with one out, Jos\u00e9 Caballero laced a Cease fastball directly at shortstop Ernie Clement, who caught the line drive and threw behind Lombard for the inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n
In the ninth against Louis Varland, Chisholm led off with a double to put the tying run on second and later stole third. <\/p>\n
But Wells, Caballero and Trent Grisham then were retired in order, ensuring a day that started poorly ended poorly, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The way the afternoon was going, it would have been apt for Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u2019s liner to right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20,9,24,321,63,319,129,131,130,10747],"class_list":["post-327546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}