TORONTO – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in three runs and Max Scherzer allowed two runs over five innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 5-4 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
With the victory, the Blue Jays improve to 46-38 and move within two games of the Yankees for the American League East Division lead.<\/p>\n
Scherzer finished with seven strikeouts and no walks while allowing three hits in five innings of work on 71 total pitches.<\/p>\n
Carlos Rodon started for the Yankees and allowed five hits and two earned runs while walking three and striking out four in five innings.<\/p>\n
Guerrero Jr. continued his hot streak at the plate, finishing with a double and a single while driving in three runs to finish 2-for-4. The 25-year-old slugger leads the Blue Jays in home runs, RBIs, OPS, and walks.<\/p>\n
The Jays were trailing 3-1 heading into the sixth inning, but scored four runs to go ahead 5-3.<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisolm Jr. clubbed his 14th home run of the season in the fourth inning off Scherzer to drive in two runs and give the Yankees an early 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger followed suit in the eighth with a solo shot, his 12th homer of the year, to make it a 5-4 game and bring the Yankees to within one.<\/p>\n
The comeback would fall short, though, as Jeff Hoffman closed things out with a scoreless ninth to secure the victory and pick up his 19th save of the season.<\/p>\n
Announced attendance was 40,619, a sellout, and the game took 2 hours and 42 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
STAYING HOT<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays remain one of the hottest teams in Major League Baseball. Since May 8, the Blue Jays have gone 30-18, the third-best winning percentage in MLB during that span, while also ranking top-10 in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and OPS.<\/p>\n
INJURED SPRINGER<\/p>\n
George Springer was forced to leave the game in the sixth inning after sliding awkwardly into third base during Guerrero Jr.\u2019s two-RBI single. Before his exit, Springer had gone 0-for-2 with a walk.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Right-hander Kevin Gausman (6-6) starts for the Jays on Canada Day, while the visiting Yankees will hand the ball to left-hander Max Fried (10-2).<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in three runs and Max Scherzer allowed two runs over five innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2317,2313,2325,2413,1365,311,2335,389,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,108,381,4,2305,2303,62,2307,2326,2327,2321,185,2311,2312,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-143611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-games","12":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","13":"tag-baseball-teams","14":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","15":"tag-cody-bellinger","16":"tag-george-springer","17":"tag-home-run","18":"tag-kevin-gausman","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","26":"tag-max-fried","27":"tag-max-scherzer","28":"tag-mlb","29":"tag-mlb-playoffs","30":"tag-mlb-postseason","31":"tag-new-york-yankees","32":"tag-outdoor-sports","33":"tag-run-baseball","34":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","35":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-team-sports","38":"tag-turf-sports","39":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}