Blue Jays get swept by Yankees as frustrations mount. Three take-aways from matinee loss
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Three things you should know about the Blue Jays’ 5-3 loss to the Yankees in New York on Wednesday:
Gleyber day
Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres did it to the Jays last week in Toronto, driving in all three New York runs in a series-opening win, and he did it again Wednesday, driving in all five as the Yankees handed the Jays their first series sweep of the season.
Torres hit a Yankee Stadium special in the bottom of the fourth inning, a 361-feet three-run homer to right field that was just out of the reach of a leaping Teoscar Hernández. It would have been a home run in only one other big-league park. Torres added a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth.
Wasted opportunities
The Jays had a chance to blow things open against Jameson Taillon in the first, starting the game with a George Springer walk and a Bo Bichette single before Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was hit by a 3-2 pitch. Bases loaded, nobody out and the middle of the order coming up.
They managed one run, on a groundout by Hernández. The Jays wound up 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position, scoring their other runs on sacrifice flies. They’re hitting a league-worst .180 in such situations.
Frustrations
Think the Jays aren’t upset about losing seven out of nine and falling to within two games of the .500 mark? Guerrero expressed that frustration rather emphatically after striking out with a runner on second to end the fifth inning. After swinging through a cut fastball from Taillon, the Guerrero slammed his bat on the ground and then broke it over his knee as he stomped back to the dugout.
Mike Wilner is a Toronto-based baseball columnist for the Star and host of the baseball podcast “Deep Left Field.” Follow him on Twitter: @wilnerness
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