{"id":148027,"date":"2025-07-03T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/148027\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:56:10","slug":"yankees-lose-al-east-lead-to-blue-jays-lose-after-will-warrens-poor-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/148027\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees lose AL East lead to Blue Jays, lose after Will Warren’s poor start"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees<\/a> are no longer sole owners of first place in American League East standings.<\/p>\n

They now move into second place behind the Toronto Blue Jays after their neighbors up north scored seven first-inning runs in an 11-9 loss at Rogers Centre on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The two teams ending the night with identical records, but Toronto owns the tiebreaker over New York.<\/p>\n

The Yankees were able to come all the way back in the top of the eighth after Aaron Judge tied the game at nine with his 31st homer of the season, but the home team later scored two more in the bottom half to secure the win for good.<\/p>\n

George Springer scored the go-ahead run \u2014 on Devin Williams\u2019 wild pitch \u2014 and Addison Barger added an insurance run.<\/p>\n

It was a see-saw battle between the AL East foes. Eventually, the early deficit proved too much of a blow for the Yankees to withstand.<\/p>\n

And the Bombers relinquished a division lead after holding it since April 14.<\/p>\n

The offensive barrage began as Yankees starter Will Warren ran into trouble early, loading the bases with no outs. Alejandro Kirk\u2019s two-run single put the first runs on the board, then Barger\u2019s three-run homer made the score 5-0.<\/p>\n

The Yankees\u2019 deficit later stretched to seven after No. 8 hitter Davis Schneider blasted a homer that bounced off the center-field batter\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n

Warren allowed another run in the third inning \u2014 an Andres Gimenez RBI single \u2014 and was charged for eight total, tying a career-worst mark he notched against the Los Angeles Angels last season.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday\u2019s loss, the right-hander allowed 10 hits, four walks and struck out four in four innings of work.<\/p>\n

The righty\u2019s poor performance put his team too far behind despite a fifth-inning surge headlined by Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s first home run of the season.<\/p>\n

Stanton\u2019s three-run homer \u2014 against Toronto\u2019s Jose Berrios \u2014 knocked the Blue Jays starter out the game and contributed to six runs scored in the frame.<\/p>\n

DJ LeMahieu<\/a>, Ben Rice and Judge all recorded RBI hits in the frame and helped the Yankees record five consecutive hits in the comeback attempt.<\/p>\n

But with the deficit at two with a runner on second, Jasson Dominguez grounded out to end the inning.<\/p>\n

All of the six fifth-inning runs were charged to Berrios, who allowed nine hits and no walks in the outing. He also struck out three over 4.1 innings.<\/p>\n

The Yankees inched closer in the following inning after LeMahieu scored on a fielder\u2019s choice, but couldn\u2019t tie the game as Stanton hit an inning-ending flyout with two runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

Schneider struck again in the seventh with a solo homer to extend the Blue Jays\u2019 lead, 9-7. Judge then followed with his moonshot \u2014 on an 0-2 count \u2014 in the eighth to tie the game, 9-9.<\/p>\n

The Yankees battled back in a game that could\u2019ve been conceded early after Warren\u2019s ugly start. But the Blue Jays were determined not to waste Wednesday\u2019s early runs.<\/p>\n

Judge\u2019s game-tying homer didn\u2019t last long with Springer and Barger coming through in the end.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s loss puts the Yankees at risk of being swept in Thursday\u2019s season finale.<\/p>\n

In that matchup, Clarke Schmidt is schedule to face off against Chris Bassitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are no longer sole owners of first place in American League East standings. They now move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,8125,5,377,4,1690,62,2548,2547,772,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-148027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-al-east","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-blue-jays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-will-warren","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114787056684957043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148027","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=148027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}