And no, it wasn’t the Yankees doing the beating. It was them catching a beating. Twice, though somehow it seemed like more. You can’t say the Yanks don’t have it coming to them after owning the Jays for so many years but that doesn’t mean we have to like it.
Hey, you remember the series against the Jays in ’85? I sure as hell do. This feels just as bad (although now, of course, the Yanks have wildcard to fall back on).
I guess the only way to make sense of it is that a) The Jays are the better team and b) everything that could did go wrong for the home team.
They had a 4-1 lead in the first game. Mike Pineda gave it up. They had a 1 run lead in the 8th–Dellin Betances gave it up. A lucky play by Chad Pennington prevented the Yanks from taking the lead in the bottom of the 8th. Never mind the Twilight Zone misery of the 11th inning when the Jays scored 4 runs on 1 hit (plus 5 walks, a wild pitch and hit batter).
In the second game, Ivan Nova couldn’t make it out the second. He lost control of his curve and Jays took bp off his fastball. It was 6-0 when he left. Course, the Yanks pulled to within 6-4, wasted a second and third, 1 out chance for more. The Jays scored 4 more runs after Chris Capuano couldn’t truckulate his wide ass to first in time. Yanks scored 3 more runs (Brett Gardner’s second 3-run shot of the game, his third homer on the day) but it wasn’t enough.
The second game was delayed by rain and a lot of Yankee fans cleared out. Which left a hearty–and happy–band of Blue Jays fans, who made plenty of noise. Hell, the Jays fans have been loud since Friday night. So, in the end, The Stadium was empty and the Jays thoroughly embarrassed our boys. So much for the biggest series in 3 years.
The Yanks showed some fight–I can’t blame their effort–but they just couldn’t get anyone out.
Chad Jennings has the gruesome details.
Final Score Game One: Jays 9, Yanks 5
Game Two: Jays 10, Yanks 7
Here’s hoping they find a way to avoid getting sweep today.
