Aaron Boone says the Yankees “feel comfortable with their backs against the wall.”
He’s about to find out if that’s really the case, as on Monday afternoon the Rejected Yankees lost the third in a row and the seventh again with an 8-0 loss to the Blue Jays.
With the AL East title increasingly in a pipe dream, the Yankees plan to be in a fight for the highest wildcard spot so they can host the AL wildcard game next month.
But the Red Sox will have a lot to say about that, and the Blue Jays can play a role in whether the Yankees reach the postseason, as Toronto has won five in a row and eight again overall to become a postseason threat. very real.
After dropping two of three in the unfortunate Orioles over the weekend, the leftists were shut out for most of Monday by leftists Hyun Jin Ryu, who allowed just three hits in six innings without scores.
Jameson Taillon, who came off two consecutive outings, gave up the victory of Marcus Semien and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
The 36th of the Semien season sank into the seats on the left, while Guerrero went to the other side on the short porch on the right during his 40th year to give Toronto a 2-0 lead.
Taillon needed 26 pitches to get past the entrance, not what the Yankees needed with an exhausted bullpen that was already recorded.
After allowing just one homer in five outings, Taillon has given up seven in his last five, but Monday was excellent.
The Yankees defense was terrible at first, as Gleyber Torres, a day after making a lazy, headless play that caused a hit inside, made a throwing error in a routine Lourdes Gurriel helicopter. Jr. with one out in the second. He was rescued by Gurriel, who was kicked out trying to steal second, as Taillon caught him first.
But Gio Urshela followed up with an error on a Danny Jansen ground down the line before Kevin Smith flew to the right to finish off the entrance.
Urshela’s ugly return to the field continued in the third, when he looked for easy Guerrero ground for his second mistake of the day.
Instead of a possible double end-of-entry play, Taillon was left with runners in the first and second with an out by Bo Bichette.
This time, the Yankees were saved by Brett Gardner, who caught Bichette’s fly ball into the center. Gardner also threw in second to double Springer to finish the inning and maintain a two-run game.
Ryu, who didn’t play until the sixth inning of his previous start against Baltimore, withdrew the first seven Yankees he faced until Gardner signaled the center with an off to the third.
Urshela and DJ LeMahieu connected to the Gardner chain.
Taillon, meanwhile, was solid after the first. He had a quarter to ten, a fifth of six and a sixth of seven, without allowing a base runner.
Toronto retired Ryu after six goalless key innings for Trevor Richards.
Richards destroyed Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. Rizzo got a single single, but Gary Sanchez came out.
In Brooks Kriske’s first appearance since throwing four wild throws in an inning on July 22, the right-hander allowed an early goal to Hernandez and then a big slam to Semien to turn things into an explosion.