The rookie righthander posted the 11 strikeouts in 5⅓ no-hit innings, while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Daulton Varsho kept Toronto's bats burning to take a 2-0 series lead to New York.

Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage, who began the 2025 season in the low minors, will start Game 2 of their AL Division Series against the New York Yankees. Manager John Schneider made the announcement before Saturday’s series opener.

Now the series heads to Yankee Stadium, where Carlos Rodón will face Shane Bieber on Tuesday night. The 32-year-old lefty allowed three runs in six innings against the Red Sox in Game 2 of the wild-card series, so he’s already pitched in an elimination game this postseason.

“We’ve been doing it all year long,” Judge said after the Yankees’ 13-7 loss to the Blue Jays in ALDS Game 2. “We’ve had our backs up against the wall and been in some tough spots. In the Wild Card Series, we lost the first one and played two elimination games. It’s kind of what we did even at the end of the year.

Teams taking a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five postseason series have won 80 of 90 times, including 54 sweeps. New York has accomplished the comeback twice, in 2001 led by Derek Jeter and his backhand flip to the plate in Game 3 against Oakland, and in 2016 vs. Cleveland. Among teams ahead 2-0 in the current 2-2-1 format, 31 of 34 have advanced.

T he scene shifts to the Bronx and Yankee Stadium for Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees Tuesday night with the Jays having won each of the first two games of the series in Toronto.

The dejected face of Max Fried \-\- perched on the top railing of the first-base dugout at Rogers Centre by early in the fourth inning on Sunday evening -- said it all. The Yankees’ left-handed ace glumly looked on as the Blue Jays’ offense kept pouring it on.

Djordje Mihailovic scored in the 10th minute of second-half stoppage time to rally Toronto FC to a 2-2 draw with the Chicago Fire on Saturday.