TORONTO — The Yankees confirmed up Monday evening. After months of hypothesis and concern about whether or not the Yankees would be capable to carry their total roster via the the strict Canadian COVID vaccine journey necessities for gamers, the first-place Bombers confirmed up Monday evening with their total roster. Gleyber Torres homered and singled within the Yankees’ total offense as they edged out the Blue Jays 3-2 on the Rogers Centre within the first of the three-game sequence.
Torres’ ninth-inning, RBI single gave the Yankees (17-6) their tenth straight win and their twelfth of their final 13 video games.
“It’s exciting, those situations. When we face really good teams, I have the opportunity to do something for my team and just try to be myself. Try to be in control. …. I don’t want to be super aggressive. I just want to put the ball in play and help my team,” Torres mentioned. “I do know the blokes behind me. So mentally smart it’s actually enjoyable. If they don’t throw me something fto hit, I do know the man behind me can do the job. So that may be a plan for me. Every time I rise up in that state of affairs, I simply merely attempt to do my factor.
“At the end of the day, I am just trying to help my team to win.”
Torres has pushed in 9 runs in his final six video games and the three he drove in Monday evening had been big, as a result of they had been in opposition to the Blue Jays (15-9), who the Bombers know they may battle all season lengthy for the American League East alternative.
Giancarlo Stanton led off the ninth with a ground-ball single up the center. Running for the suitable fielder, Tim Locastro stole second to get in scoring place. Matt Chapman made a superb seize of Josh Donaldson’s broken-bat, comfortable floor ball and checked Locastro again to second earlier than getting the out at first. Aaron Hicks struck out for the third time for the second out earlier than Torres introduced LoCastro in on a line-drive single to right-center subject to get again the lead.
“We’ve seen it all year — even when he struggled, he’s come up in those tight situations late, it’s almost like I feel like he’s been that way kind of his whole career too. He really fought and he has such an ability to use the entire field and to go the other way. And when he’s at his best, he does that,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “And I just think he turns up the focus a little bit in those situations. So when he walked up there I was thinking no one was better right now. And he put a great swing on it.”
Jordan Montgomery allowed two earned runs on six hits. He didn’t stroll a batter and struck out 5. He acquired 13 swings and misses, six every on his changeup and curveball and one on his sinker.
Torres gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead within the fourth. The second baseman lined an opposite-field dwelling run into the guests bullpen in proper subject. The 376-foot shot was Torres’ third dwelling run of the season. It drove in Donaldson, who had reached on a single.
That’s all of the run help he acquired, however Montgomery is used to it. He has gotten a median of three.74 runs of help per begin because the starting of the 2021 season, fourth-lowest within the majors.
“I think that’d be pretty selfish for me to think like that,” Montgomery mentioned of the dearth of run help. “I’m out there trying my best. They’re all trying their best. They’re playing great defense. Stanton made a great play. A lot of ground balls that (Isiah Kiner-Falefa) made in the hole that were not easy. So I’m just trying to go out there and throw strikes and keep us in it.”
And regardless of giving these two runs proper again within the backside of the inning, Montgomery and the bullpen battled a harmful lineup. George Springer led off with a single and scored from first on Bo Bichette’s double. Matt Chapman drove within the Blue Jays’ shortstop with a single.
Montgomery gave up a leadoff single to Bichette within the sixth and Boone went to get the lefty. Jonathan Loaisiga walked Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., the primary batter he confronted, earlier than coaxing a double play floor ball from Lourdes Gurriel, Jr. He struck out Chapman to strand Bichette at third.
Miguel Castro got here in to get two outs after which Clay Holmes threw 1.1 scoreless innings. Chad Green got here in to shut it out, incomes his first save of the season.
There had been concern this spring about Canada’s strict vaccine necessities for overseas guests for the Yankees, who had a couple of gamers nonetheless unvaccinated as of March. Monday, nevertheless, each participant on the 26-man roster was in Toronto — that means they had been vaccinated — and out there to play.
“This is obviously what I had hoped for. And fortunately that we’re in a position that we’re all able to be here,” Boone mentioned earlier than Monday evening’s recreation.
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