Aaron Judge, Yankees bats stay cold in 2-0 loss to Blue Jays
The Yankees offense went cold for a second straight day as they mustered just three hits in their 2-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Thursday night in the Bronx. It's not like the Yankees didn't have their chances. They were 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and left five on base.
With the loss, the Yankees (30-21) split the four-game series with Toronto (23-27). Here are the takeaways... -The Yankees bats didn't have many runners get into scoring position against the Blue Jays, who deployed the bullpen game strategy.
In the second, Ryan McMahon 's two-out double was wasted in the second inning by an Anthony Volpe flyout and a Spencer Jones leadoff single -- followed by the prospect's first career stolen base -- was gone by the wayside in the fifth after back-to-back strikeouts from Volpe and J. C. Escarra .
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (strikeout) and Paul Goldschmidt (groundout) left Ben Rice at second when the Yankees had two runners on in the sixth. The Blue Jays were worse in the clutch department, picking up seven hits (three from Ernie Clement ) but making it count by going 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and leaving eight on base.
- Carlos Rodon made his third start of the season Thursday and got into some bad luck in the first. After walking Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with one out, the slugger stole second and Daulton Varsho poked an opposite-field double (65.