DUNEDIN – New York first baseman Paul Goldschmidt homered and drove in four runs, and the Toronto Blue Jays came up short in their comeback bid in an 8-7 loss to the Yankees in spring training action Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt’s two-run homer off Tyler Rogers in the third put the Yankees up 4-1. He then increased the Yankees’ lead to 6-1 with a two-run double in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Down 7-1 in the bottom of the sixth, the Blue Jays mounted a comeback.<\/p>\n
Carlos Mendoza started a four-run inning with an RBI single. Charles McAdoo then drove in two with a double before coming around to score on a throwing error to cut the lead to 7-5.<\/p>\n
Jace Avina put New York up by three with a homer in the eighth, then Jays centre-fielder Jake Casey hit a two-run homer with none out in the ninth to narrow the lead to 8-7.<\/p>\n
Yankees reliever Carson Coleman settled down to retire the next three batters and pick up the save.<\/p>\n
Yankees starter Will Warren allowed a run on four hits and struck out four over 2 2\/3 innings to get the win.<\/p>\n
Toronto starter Grant Rogers allowed two runs on four hits over two innings and took the loss.<\/p>\n
New York improved to 3-2. Toronto fell to 1-3 and will face the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday in Lakeland, Fla.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN – New York first baseman Paul Goldschmidt homered and drove in four runs, and the Toronto Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,53,3437,36168,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,62,2307,118,2326,2327,2321,185,2324,2418,2311,70,5926,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-591199","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-events","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-games","14":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","15":"tag-baseball-teams","16":"tag-detroit-tigers","17":"tag-double-baseball","18":"tag-events-at-yankee-stadium","19":"tag-home-run","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-mlb-playoffs","29":"tag-mlb-postseason","30":"tag-new-york-yankees","31":"tag-outdoor-sports","32":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","33":"tag-run-baseball","34":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","35":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-sports-events","38":"tag-sports-management-companies","39":"tag-team-sports","40":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","41":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-minor-league-players","42":"tag-turf-sports","43":"tag-world-series"},"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\/591199","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=591199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}