New York Improves to 29-19
THE BRONX, NY — Exhale. The Yankees came back to win 7-6 over the Blue Jays in the series opener. It was not pretty and it was a game that kept everyone on the edge of their seats, but a win is a win.
Pitching Spotlight
Ryan Weathers was ok today. It was two bad pitches that did his outing in, and one might not even constitute a bad pitch. Weathers allowed five runs, four of them were on home runs, a three run shot by Clement and a solo shot by Springer. The third was on an RBI groundout.
Weathers also did not pitch as deep into this game as the Yankees would like. The Yankees bullpen has been short, and struggling, Weathers needed to get deeper than just 5.1 innings of work.
Despite all this, Weathers had the Yankees in a position to win the game late. The line might look ugly with five runs surrendered, but his outing felt much better than the line said. His stuff was really good today, not issuing a walk, it’s keeping the ball in the park that did him in a bit today.
Overall, Weathers has been solid for the Yankees so far in 2026.
Hitting Spotlight
Two outs, nobody on in the bottom of the seventh inning. Toronto’s skipper John Schnider signaled for the righty Yariel Rodríguez to face Aaron Judge with a two-run lead. Judge singled, leading to Bellinger who tied the game with a two-run homer to right-center field. A walk to Trent Grisham led to Jazz Chisholm Jr., who hit a two-run home run off the left-field foul pole.
The Yankees needed this win like water. After the 2-7 road trip, a win at home against an AL East rival is that this team needed, and they got. The series, and by extension homestead against AL East rivals is far from over, but having big, late inning, clutch at-bats to take a lead is really big.
Notable
David Bednar continues to struggle. On Sunday, Bandar blew a three-run lead against the Mets with a home run off the bat of Tyrone Taylor. One out away from a series win, the Yankees were walking home with a loss.
Tonight, Bednar pulled the high-wire act once again. A leadoff walk and an RBI double with no outs gave Toronto a run and the tying run in scoring position. A strikeout and a walk later, the Blue Jays two most clutch hitters, George Springer and Vladimir Gurerro Jr. were coming to bat. Bednar fell behind Springer 3-0 and came back to strike him out. After falling behind 2-0 to Guerrero, he got a groundout to second and the ballgame was over.
It took 36 pitches (of that 19 strikes), but Bednar did earn his 11th save in 13 chances.
What’s Next
The Yankees and the Blue Jays will square off for game two of the series. The Yankees will send out RHP Will Warren (5-1, 3.42), who struggled against the Blue Jays in 2026. For Toronto, it will be RHP Dylan Cease (3-1, 2.41 ERA) who has been lights out this season. First pitch will be at 7:05pm on YES.