Yankees 9 Blue Jays 10
My two favorite people in the world right now are Lourdes Gurriel and Teoscar Hernández. Sure it’s Father’s Day, but these kids are third (three-way tie).
Lourdes hit a grand slam in the sixth, again playing a wild ball game (8-3).
And Teoscar hit a three-run shot in the eighth, putting us ahead.
The match started well. Vladimir Guerrero hit a two-run homer in the first inning to give us our first lead from the top of the fourth quarter of the first game of this series.
After that, things went wrong.
Yusei Kikuchi walked Aaron Judge and hit Josh Donaldson (Josh wasn’t happy) at first, but left the entrance unscored, aided by Kirk who eliminated Donaldson at first.
In the second, Gleyber Torres started with a home run. And Yusei hit Aaron Hicks, but one point and one point / elimination (Kirk had a day behind the plate).
The third had another walk and a Donaldson home run (just when Yusei seemed to be confident in his fast ball. He came out of the fourth without scoring a run).
And Adam Cimber started fifth. Adam did not have his usual big outing. One walk, one touch, one double and one double marked 3 for the Yankees.
Max Castillo played in his first MLB game in the sixth and gave home runs to the first two batters he faced. We were losing 8-3, and things looked bleak.
But the home runs of Lourdes and Teoscar put us back on top.
I skipped a George Springer solo homer on the sixth, his first hit since Monday.
But just because we grew by two, it wasn’t over.
Yimi Garcia overtook the seventh with a popup and two strikeouts. He got a point to start the eighth, and when the Yankees hit Anthony Rizzo, Charlie went to Tim Mayza.
As it turned out, it was a mistake. Rizzo homered, becoming a one-run match. And a simple one (being fair, Vlad threw himself and deflected it away from Espinal, who could have had a pretty easy play. the weekend, but stayed in the match). ) and a walk put the tie in second place.
Jordan Romano comes in and blocks the runners. The ninth came out on top (Donaldson), walk (Stanton), off (Torres) and Hicks (singler). Second tie and Rizzo again.
Jordan went 3-2 to Rizzo (a couple of very tight calls didn’t come out, which was part of the weekend’s story), and I was thinking maybe walking Rizzo. He didn’t, and Rizzo threw Bo Bichette.
I really like Romano.
Jays of the Day: Romano (.376 WPA, 5 non-stop), Hernández (.348) and Gurriel (.205). Let’s give one to Kirk for .077 and two runners thrown to the bases.
Suckage: Mayza (-.246), Cimber (-.241), Yikuchi (-.121).
I’m currently sacrificing a rum to the gods of baseball, who didn’t deserve all the nasty things I said about them the last three days.