TORONTO — With their ace on the mound and an opportunity to depart Canada with a much-needed sequence win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday, the Yankees embarrassed themselves. Once more.
After one other evening of atrocious baseball, the Bombers fell, 8-4. The loss, which adopted an unpleasant defeat on Monday, featured 4 errors from the Yankees. It additionally put Aaron Boone’s 56-46 ballclub 4 video games behind the Blue Jays, who haven’t relinquished their lead on the American League East since sweeping the Yanks over 4 video games at Rogers Centre earlier this month.
Max Fried unraveled within the fifth on Wednesday, strolling two batters and throwing a wild pitch earlier than making a pricey throwing error on a tapper towards third from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Fried, who sometimes fields his place effectively, tried throwing off-balance and round Davis Schneider, who was racing residence. The throw skipped away from J.C. Escarra and trickled to the backstop. That allowed not solely Schneider to attain, but in addition George Springer, as neither Fried nor Oswald Peraza coated residence.
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. additionally made a throwing error later within the inning. That didn’t result in any extra runs, however the slop-fest was removed from over.
Cody Bellinger, a terrific defender, couldn’t discover an Ernie Clement flyball within the lights within the sixth inning, leading to a one-out triple. Myles Straw adopted with an RBI double.
Fried, making his first begin since a blister ripped on his index finger earlier than the All-Star break, then exited with blood on his pinky.
The lefty totaled six runs (4 earned) over 5.1 innings, as Ben Rice was charged with an error at first earlier than the sixth body ended. That scored one other run for the Blue Jays.
The seventh inning, in the meantime, noticed Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake get ejected. Aaron Boone joined him moments later after arguing with residence plate umpire Manny Gonzalez.
Neither have been on the bench when Jasson Domínguez added to the gathering of calamities within the backside of the seventh, because the left fielder bobbled a bouncing ball, giving Guerrero further bases and the Yankees their last error of the evening.
Bo Bichette proceeded with a two-run homer off Scott Effross, the ultimate nail within the Yankees’ self-made coffin.
Domínguez really began the scoring on Wednesday, smoking a solo shot off Chris Bassitt within the second inning. A Guerrero double and a Clement single gave Toronto its first lead within the fourth, however Anthony Volpe tied the sport with a homer of his personal within the fifth.
Aaron Choose re-tied the sport within the sixth after Fried’s poor throw, hitting a two-run jack for his thirty seventh homer of the season. Alas, the Yankees’ energy surge got here with a defensive meltdown.
Poor protection and fundamentals have been an issue for the Yankees for a while now — simply ask the Dodgers’ World Collection-winning crew from a yr in the past — however the membership has been particularly careless towards the Blue Jays, who’re speedy and expert at placing the ball in play.
The Yankees have now made 12 errors in 10 video games towards Toronto this season. The blunders are an enormous cause why Boone and firm are 3-7 towards the Blue Jays.
The Yankees are additionally now 11-18 towards AL East rivals this yr. Boone and his gamers, well-aware of that file, stated his crew’s development of poor divisional play wanted to vary previous to the sequence.
As a substitute, the Yankees ended the three-game set at all-time low.
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