The New York Yankees defeated the
Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon.
The game took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada and the final
score was 13-3. James Paxton started for
the Yankees and he didn’t have his best stuff but grinded out for a good
outing. DJ LeMahieu had four hits and
Brett Gardner had three hits and five RBI to lead the offense.
Paxton won his 14th game
of the season pitching five innings and giving up three hits and a run with two
walks and three strikeouts. Cory Gearrin
pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out one, Jonathan Loaisiga
pitched two innings giving up a hit and he struck out two and Ryan Dull pitched
an inning giving up three hits and two runs with a walk and three
strikeouts.
Jacob Waguespack pitched 3 2/3
innings giving up seven hits and three runs with two walks and four strikeouts
and he lost his fifth game of the season.
Brock Stewart pitched two innings giving up five hits and six runs with
a walk and two strikeouts, Jason Adam pitched 1/3 of an inning and gave up a
walk and Elvis Luciano pitched an inning giving up two hits. Jordan Romano pitched 2/3 of an inning giving
up a hit and Justin Shafer pitched 1 1/3
innings giving up four hits and four runs.
LeMahieu had four hits, Aaron Judge
had a hit and drew a walk and Clint Frazier had a hit. Gleyber Torres had a hit and two RBI, Tyler
Wade had an RBI and Luke Voit had two hits, two RBI and drew two walks. Mike Ford had a hit and two RBI, Gio Urshela
had two hits and Gardner had three hits and five RBI. Cameron Maybin had a hit and drew a walk,
Kyle Higashioka had a hit and Thairo Estrada had two hits and an RBI. Gardner, Voit, Higashioka and Frazier each
hit a double. Gardner hit two homeruns
and Torres, Voit and Ford each hit a homerun.
The Yankees were 5-16 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men
on base. Judge was caught stealing and
Torres committed an error.
Bo Bichette had an RBI and drew a
walk, Richard Urena had a hit and two RBI and Randal Grichuk had a hit. Anthony Alford had a hit, Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
had two hits and Vlad Guerrero Jr. had a hit.
Teoscar Hernandez had a hit, Brandon Drury had two hits and Danny Jansen
drew a walk. Jonathan Davis drew a walk,
Gurriel Jr. and Urena each hit a double.
The Blue Jays were 2-12 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men
on base. Guerrero Jr. committed an error
and Alford had an outfield assist.
In the second Gardner hit an RBI
double to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
In the third Voit hit an RBI double to push their lead to 2-0. In the fourth Gardner hit a solo homerun making
it 3-0 Yankees. In the fifth Gardner hit
a three-run homerun and the lead was extended to 6-0. In the bottom of the fifth Bichette hit a sac
fly cutting the lead to 6-1. In the
sixth Torres hit a two-run homerun followed immediately by a Voit solo homerun
pushing the lead to 9-1. In the ninth
Estrada hit an RBI single, Wade hit an RBI ground out and Ford hit a two-run
homerun to make it 13-1. In the bottom
of the ninth Urena hit a two-run double to make it 13-3.
The two teams will play the third and
final game on Sunday afternoon. It will
also be the rubber game as each team has won a game so far.
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