{"id":145340,"date":"2025-07-02T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/145340\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:08:27","slug":"more-miscues-haunt-yankees-as-george-springer-blue-jays-slam-their-way-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/145340\/","title":{"rendered":"More miscues haunt Yankees as George Springer, Blue Jays slam their way to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off a sloppy loss and a sub-.500 month, the Yankees continued to play below their standards on Tuesday, falling, 12-5, as the Blue Jays celebrated Canada Day at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n

With the defeat, the Yankees are 10-14 against American League East rivals this season. Both the Blue Jays and Rays are now one game back in the division.<\/p>\n

George Springer made sure that a loss would be added to the Bombers\u2019 record, as he broke Tuesday\u2019s game open in the seventh when he crushed a grand slam off of Luke Weaver with Toronto already up a run. The Yankees began the inning with Mark Leiter Jr. on the mound, but he gave up a one-out single to Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez and walked Tyler Heineman before Weaver took over.<\/p>\n

Weaver appeared to pick up a strikeout upon entering, but J.C. Escarra was instead called for catcher interference for the second straight day<\/a>. Ernie Clement capitalized with an RBI single off the glove of a diving Anthony Volpe before Springer gave the Blue Jays a cushion that the Yankees couldn\u2019t overcome.<\/p>\n

Springer then gave himself seven RBI on the day, adding a two-run single in the eighth after Clement worked a bases-loaded walk.<\/p>\n

It was the slam that deflated the Yankees, though, as it came after the Blue Jays shot themselves in the foot twice in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n

With Toronto up 4-2, Cody Bellinger led off with a single before Aaron Judge was granted an intentional walk. Jazz Chisholm Jr. then reached on a fielder\u2019s choice before a bouncing Giancarlo Stanton grounder skipped under Clement\u2019s glove, an error for the third baseman. With runners on the corners and one away, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made an error of his own, failing to corral a Jasson Dom\u00ednguez grounder.<\/p>\n

That tied the game, but the Yankees couldn\u2019t take the lead after Volpe flew out to center and Escarra struck out.<\/p>\n

While Dom\u00ednguez started the scoring with a two-run single off Kevin Gausman in the first and added a meaningless run in the ninth, the Yankees had a difficult time putting runs on the board outside of the Blue Jays\u2019 gaffes. They went 2-for-17 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 runners.<\/p>\n

The untimely hitting, combined with some poor defense, continued some of the trends that contributed to the Yankees\u2019 latest June swoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Max Fried was not his usual stopper self.<\/p>\n

The lefty cruised through the first three innings, but the Blue Jays picked up their first hit in the fourth when Springer hit a solo shot. The outfielder homered off Fried\u2019s signature curveball, which had been hit over the fence just one other time this season.<\/p>\n

Fried rebounded by getting Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk out, but Chisholm made a bad throw on a Davis Schneider dribbler, which was generously ruled a hit. Fried then walked Myles Straw on five pitches before Gim\u00e9nez drove a three-run homer to center.<\/p>\n

Fried ended up throwing six innings. He totaled three hits, four earned runs, two walks and two strikeouts over 99 pitches. Tuesday marked just the second time this season he\u2019s permitted more than three earned runs in a game. It was also the second time he\u2019s surrendered two homers in a game.<\/p>\n

The southpaw now has a 2.13 ERA this year.<\/p>\n

With the Yankees now two sloppy losses into a four-game series, they still have a chance to leave Canada with a split. They\u2019ll ask Will Warren to assist that effort on Wednesday, but they\u2019ll also need to play cleaner baseball while getting to Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a sloppy loss and a sub-.500 month, the Yankees continued to play below their standards on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,377,311,108,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-145340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-george-springer","11":"tag-max-fried","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114780734044897416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145340","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=145340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}