Blue Jays pull away late to top Yankees 11-9
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A wild pitch from New York Yankees reliever Devin Williams scored George Springer and Addison Barger followed with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a wild 11-9 win on Wednesday.
TORONTO – A wild pitch from New York Yankees reliever Devin Williams scored George Springer and Addison Barger followed with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a wild 11-9 win on Wednesday.
With their third straight win to open the four-game set, the Blue Jays (48-38) moved into a first-place tie with the Yankees (48-38) in the American League East Division.
The Blue Jays squandered an 8-0 advantage. Aaron Judge pushed the Yankees into a 9-9 tie with his 31st homer, a decisive 440-foot blast off Yimi Garcia (1-2) into the second deck in left field in the eighth inning.
Williams (2-3) took the loss, while Jeff Hoffman registered his 20th save before 30,985 at Rogers Centre.
Barger’s three-run blast and Davis Schneider’s two-run homer played a big part in the Blue Jays’ seven-run first inning.
The home team was ahead 8-0 before the Yankees struck for six in the fifth inning. Giancarlo Stanton’s three-run shot made it 8-6.
The Yankees scored again in the sixth, but Schneider’s second homer in the seventh inning put Toronto in front 9-7.
Toronto’s Jose Berrios went 4 1/3 innings, giving up six runs on nine hits with three strikeouts.
