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TORONTO – Giancarlo Stanton homered in the ninth inning and Aaron Judge added a two-run double to lead the New York Yankees to a 6-4 comeback win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday at the Rogers Centre.
Stanton hit a solo shot off Erik Swanson (0-1) to start a four-run outburst that snapped a three-game sweep.
Pinch hitter Jose Trevino hit an RBI single off Tim Mayza to tie the game. After Juan Soto walked to load the bases, Judge hit a pitch down the left field line that scored Trevino and Alex Verdugo.
Victor Gonzalez (1-0) got the last out of the eighth inning for the win. Clay Holmes earned his seventh save.
Daulton Varsho hit two homers for the Blue Jays (10-9), and their four-game winning streak ended. New York defeats Toronto 11-9.
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Varsho’s two-run shot in the second inning came off leadoff man Marcus Stroman. He added a solo shot off Caleb Ferguson in the seventh.
Starter Kevin Gausman threw five effective innings for Toronto. Soto hit a solo homer in the eighth inning for the Yankees (13-6), which ended a three-game losing skid.
The Blue Jays went 6-3 on the homestand after starting the regular season with a 4-6 road trip.
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Gausman loaded the bases in the first inning on two walks and a single but escaped by fanning Gleyber Torres.
In the second, Davis Schneider singled before Varsho turned on a 1-2 pitch for his third homer of the season.
Gausman settled in nicely and his fastball velocity – which had dipped at times earlier this month – was at his normal mid-90s level. He gave up his lone earned run in the fifth when Oswaldo Cabrera singled off Soto with two outs.
Gausman struck out Judge to complete his 101 pitch outing. The veteran right-hander gave up four hits, three walks and had six strikeouts.
Stroman, who was drafted by Toronto in 2012 and spent parts of six seasons with the team, almost gave up a homer to Bo Bichette to lead off the sixth but the ball hit the top of the wall.
Justin Turner’s slow chopper moved Bichette to third base and ended Stroman’s afternoon. Ferguson hit pinch hitter Ernie Clement and got Schneider on a fly out to center field.
Varsho sent Ferguson’s first pitch of the seventh inning over the wall for his second career multi-homer game. He has four home runs on the season.
Kiermaier scored on Bichette’s sacrifice fly later in the inning. The announced attendance was 30,233 and the game took three hours 10 minutes to play.
COMING UP
Both teams have days off on Thursday.
The Blue Jays will begin a three-game weekend series in San Diego on Friday night. Yariel Rodriguez (0-0, 2.45) was tabbed to start for Toronto against his fellow southpaw, Matt Waldron (0-1, 3.14).
The Yankees will return home to begin a three-game weekend set against the Tampa Bay Rays.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on April 17, 2024.
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