Toronto-Vladimir Herrero-Jr. said goodbye to a decline on his first Saturday. Alejandro Kirk used his first turn to show that his bat remained as hot as always.
Both lethards left on Saturday to bring Toronto’s 14 strokes into the force when Blue Jace blew up New York Yankeys 10-1 in the game of the 1st series of the American League Division.
“I think it just strengthened that we are here for reason,” said the outbuilder of Blue Jays, Nathan Lux, who had twice in the seventh Inningo Toronto.
Guerrero set the tone using the starting starter of the Yankee Luis Gila (0-1). Kirk, who had two Homers in the final of the regular season last Sunday, followed Inining later with the first shot alone.
Kirk added another solo explosion in the eighth inning of Toronto. The catcher in Toronto has three games in a row.
Teams that win the game 1 in the series of the best of five advanced 72.4 % of cases.
“I feel that we really need this victory tonight,” Kirk said through the interpreter of Hector Lebron.
Toronto Starter Kevin Gausman was solid for 5 2/3 of the taxes, and the deliverer Louis Varland helped him to leave the jam loaded with bases in the sixth, which kept her into a single game.
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“It was a truly many-frequency game,” said Blue Jays manager John Schneider. “Putry, blows, protection.”
Herrero, who fought for a plate over the past two weeks of the season, made an excellent defensive game in the second half, drinking a liner and doubleting a runner, all the time dodging a broken bat.
He also went on the run with a sacrifice in the seventh and had a couple of singles.
“When Vlad is locked, it can be contagious,” Schneider said.
Having loaded the bases in the sixth, Gausman deleted Aaron Jaja before walking Cody Bellinger to put New York on the board. Gausman received Ben Rice on a field flies, and Varland deleted Dzhancarlo Stonton with a fastball of 100.7 miles per hour to avoid a jam.
“In this situation, you needed 100 against a guy who had a legendary career after the season in Staton,” Schneider said.
Gausman, meanwhile, delivered the first blow to 17 out of 22 batteries that he faced. He allowed four blows, one earned mileage, two walks and three outs.
“Everyone knows that he is going to strike, but he is giving high -quality blows,” said the reserve clever Tyler Hineman.
The Yankees, who had six hits, this year, were the nine of 14 meetings against Blue Jace.
“(We) simply could not break through how we needed in Inning, where we had the opportunity to have a big one,” said the New York manager Aaron Boon.
With an open roof on a magnificent 26th day, the 44,655 fans present in full throat for the first game in the play -off “Blue Jace” in three years.
They rose to their feet when the starter -Yanka Luis Gil was pulled out only after 2 2/3 of the taxes. New York used five publishers for the next 5 1/3 frames.
Yankees won a series of wild cards over Boston Red Sox, which passed the distance of three games.
The teams released their lists of series with 26 people before the game. The short stop of Toronto Bokett (knee) was not on the list, and the jugs -veteran Max Sherzer and Chris Bassitt were not chosen.
The newcomer to the right tray of Jesavaga (1-0, 3.21 earned average indicator) will make its fourth career the eldest in Toronto in the game 2. Yankees confront Max Frida (19-5, 2.86).
A series of the best of five will go to New York for Game 3 on Tuesday evening. If necessary, the Yankees will take the game 4 on Wednesday.
If this goes to a distance, the series will return to Toronto for the game 5 on Friday. The winner of the series will play the winner of other ALDS between Detroit Tigra and Seattle -Marines.
This report of the Canadian press was first published on October 4, 2025.
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