By IAN HARRISON
TORONTO (AP) — Rookie Trey Yesavage set a Blue Jays postseason report by putting out 11 in 5 1/3 no-hit innings, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit the primary postseason grand slam in workforce historical past and Toronto beat the New York Yankees 13-7 on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead within the ALDS.
Daulton Varsho had two dwelling runs amongst his 4 additional base hits, and Ernie Clement and George Springer additionally each homered as Toronto reached double figures in hits (15) and runs for the second straight sport.
The Blue Jays had three dwelling runs amongst their 14 hits Saturday in a 10-1 victory. They’ve as many dwelling runs (eight) as strikeouts (seven) by two video games.
Varsho went 4 for five with two doubles, scored 4 runs and drove in 4. Guerrero went 3 for five and scored twice.
Cody Bellinger homered and drove in three runs and Ben Rice had two hits and two RBIs in a five-run seventh however Toronto received for the eighth time in 9 dwelling conferences with New York. The Blue Jays went 2-4 in six video games at Yankee Stadium, the place the sequence shifts for Recreation 3 on Tuesday evening.
Yesavage (1-0) was chosen by Toronto with the No. 20 choose final yr within the novice draft. The 22-year-old right-hander rose by 4 minor league ranges this season earlier than becoming a member of the Blue Jays and going 1-0 in three September begins.
Yesavage wanted fewer than 4 innings to beat Toronto’s earlier report for postseason strikeouts, eight, held by Dave Steib, David Value (twice) and Juan Guzmán.
Identified for his elite split-finger fastball, Yesavage set a Blue Jays report by putting out 9 Rays batters in his Sept. 15 debut. Eight of his 11 strikeouts Sunday got here on the splitter. The opposite three got here on fastballs that reached 96 mph.
Yesavage opened the sport by putting out Trent Grisham on a splitter. He walked Aaron Choose on 4 pitches, then fanned Bellinger and Rice to start out a streak of 12 straight outs that ended when Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached on Guerrero’s fielding error within the fifth.
Yesavage responded by getting Ryan McMahon to pop up and fanning Anthony Volpe for his eleventh strikeout.
Yesavage struck out six straight over the third and fourth innings as Volpe, Austin Wells, Grisham, Choose, Bellinger and Rice had been retired.
Left-hander Justin Bruihl got here on to face Grisham after Yesavage threw 78 pitches, 48 for strikes. Supervisor John Schneider was booed as he got here out to take away Yesavage with Toronto main 12-0. The group of 44,7564 then roared till Yesavage got here out for a curtain name, lifting his arms over his head on the prime of the dugout steps.
Bruihl retired Grisham on a grounder earlier than Choose reached on an infield single for New York’s first hit. Bellinger adopted with a homer.
Yankees left-hander Max Fried (0-1) allowed seven runs and eight hits in 3-plus innings. He gave up seven runs in 33 1/3 innings in 5 September begins.
Fried went 11-1 with a 1.82 ERA in 16 begins after a Yankees loss within the common season, however suffered one other troublesome begin in Toronto. He was 0-1 with a 6.35 ERA in two common season highway begins in opposition to the Blue Jays, giving up 10 runs, eight earned, 5 walks and 9 hits, together with two dwelling runs.
Up subsequent
Toronto RHP Shane Bieber, the 2020 AL Cy Younger winner with Cleveland, is scheduled to start out in opposition to Yankees LHP Carlos Rodón in Tuesday’s Recreation 3. Bieber went 4-2 with a 3.57 ERA in seven begins after coming back from elbow surgical procedure in August. Rodón allowed three runs and 4 hits in Recreation 2 of the Wild Card spherical in opposition to Boston, putting out six in six innings.
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