{"id":779708,"date":"2026-08-15T22:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/779708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:15:16","slug":"mcadoos-clutch-7th-inning-double-helps-lift-blue-jays-past-yankees-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/779708\/","title":{"rendered":"McAdoo\u2019s clutch 7th-inning double helps lift Blue Jays past Yankees 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Charles McAdoo had two hits, including a tiebreaking RBI double in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 4-1 on Saturday for their 13th win in 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>McAdoo also had an RBI single and Brett Bateman reached base three times as the Blue Jays inched closer to the final AL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Miles (5-2), the fifth of seven Blue Jays pitchers, went one inning for the win and Louis Varland struck out the side in the ninth for his 28th save in 29 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees had four hits, all singles, and lost their third straight game. New York has scored two total runs in those games.<\/p>\n<p>Pinch hitter Ernie Clement singled on the first pitch he saw from Brent Headrick (6-2) to begin the seventh. McAdoo followed with an RBI double off the wall.<\/p>\n<p>McAdoo and Nathan Lukes had RBIs off Tim Hill in Toronto&#8217;s two-run eighth.<\/p>\n<p>McAdoo started in place of six-time All-Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who went on the seven-day IL earlier Saturday because of concussion symptoms. Guerrero left Friday\u2019s 3-1 victory following a collision with Yankees rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. at third base.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler allowed one run and four hits in 5 1\/3 innings, his fourth straight winless start. Schlittler is winless in five career starts against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>After Blue Jays right-hander Braydon Fisher opened with a scoreless first, left-hander Ricky Tiedemann came on for his major league debut.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Jones hit a leadoff single, stole second and scored on a one-out hit by George Lombard Jr., but Tiedemann retired the next four batters.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto tied it on Alejandro Kirk\u2019s two-out single in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Dylan Cease (7-5, 2.40 ERA) is scheduled to face Yankees LHP Ryan Weathers (5-7, 3.69) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Charles McAdoo had two hits, including a tiebreaking RBI double in the seventh inning, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[3426,5,14554,61374,20455,40487,6130,2107,6438,4,8678,1690,62,2548,2547,9500,9501,9496,9497,22857,22858,22859,1073,5055,63679,4791,282,142,95907],"class_list":["post-779708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-baseball","tag-brent-headrick","tag-brett-bateman","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-charles-mcadoo","tag-ernie-clement","tag-george-lombard-jr","tag-louis-varland","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-lukes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-spencer-jones","tag-spencer-miles","tag-tim-hill","tag-toronto","tag-yankees","tag-yankees-blue-jays-score"],"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\/779708","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=779708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}