TORONTO – Paul Goldschmidt belted a two-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Louis Varland to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 win and settle a pitchers’ duel between Toronto Blue Jays veteran Kevin Gausman and Cam Schlittler on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was the first homer Varland (3-2) allowed this season and spoiled a solid one-hit effort from Gausman as the Yankees (42-27) won for the fifth time in six outings.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays (34-37) have gone 4-4 with the finale of their nine-game homestand on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Both Gausman and Schlittler yielded early homers to Jasson Dominguez and Kazuma Okamoto in the fourth and third innings, respectively. Okamoto\u2019s homer down the left-field line came a day after he soared a two-run blast into the fifth deck in left field.<\/p>\n
Gausman tossed a season-high 105 pitches in his seven innings. He struck out seven and walked a pair of New Yorkers. He fanned his final batter, Spencer Jones, to end his day and gave a little extra effort in the customary fling of his gum in front of the Blue Jays dugout.<\/p>\n
Schlittler, the American League leader in ERA at 1.82, also went seven innings. He struck out seven but walked four in his 101-pitch effort before 42,364 at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
Fernando Cruz (4-1) walked the bases loaded in the eighth, but survived to get the win. David Bednar picked up his 14th save.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had the day off with a tight back. Charles McAdoo started in place of Guerrero at first base and fouled out with the bases loaded at the Yankees’ dugout in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Yankees: Outfielder and leadoff hitter Trent Grisham was placed on the 10-day injured list after suffering a right hamstring strain sliding into second base in the series opener on Friday.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
With Yankees on first and third with two out in the eighth, McAdoo made a diving stop on a Dominguez hard-hit grounder to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement\u2019s second-inning single to right field increased his AL-leading hit total to 83. He also leads in doubles with 20.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Toronto lefty Patrick Corbin (2-3) will face Yankees righty Will Warren (7-1) in the series rubber match on Sunday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – Paul Goldschmidt belted a two-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Louis Varland to give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[89967,5,2314,2317,2313,2331,2330,2335,389,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,62,185,2350,70],"class_list":["post-725315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-2017-toronto-blue-jays-season","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-batting-order-baseball","tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","tag-home-run","tag-kevin-gausman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-strikeout","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"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\/725315","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=725315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}