Blue Jays hit 5 HRs, rout Yankees for 2-0 ALDS lead

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho homered twice, rookie Trey Yesavage struck out 11 and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 13-7 Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added three hits, including the first postseason grand slam in team history in Game 2 of the best-of-five series. Varsho also had two doubles and four RBIs. Yesavage (1-0), making his fourth career major league start, did not allow a hit and walked one in 5 1/3 innings. The other runner he allowed came on an error. He had 10 strikeouts in the first four innings. Ernie Clement contributed a two-run homer and three RBIs and George Springer added a solo shot for Toronto. Cody Bellinger hit a two-run homer for the Yankees and had three RBIs. The next two games as needed will be played in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday. Toronto scored twice in the second against Max Fried (0-1). Varsho doubled and continued to third on right fielder Aaron Judge's error. Clement hit the next pitch to left for his first career postseason home run. The Blue Jays added three in the third. Davis Schneider walked with one out, took third on Guerrero's single and scored on Alejandro Kirk's groundout to first. Varsho stroked an RBI double into the right-field corner. Clement followed with an RBI single to left. In the fourth, Fried allowed an infield hit to Andres Gimenez and walked Myles Straw before Will Warren replaced him and walked Springer to load the bases. Guerrero hit a blast to left on a 2-1 fastball with one out for his second home run in two games. Alejandro Kirk singled and Varsho hit his first postseason homer on a blast to right center. Fried allowed seven runs, eight hits and two walks with one strikeout in three-plus innings. Springer hit his 20th career postseason homer in the fifth. Justin Bruihl replaced Yesavage with one out in the sixth and allowed Judge's infield single and Bellinger's homer. Varsho hit another homer in the sixth. Toronto's Eric Lauer allowed three singles in the seventh to load the bases. Tommy Nance replaced him and yielded Judge's RBI single, Bellinger's sacrifice fly, Ben Rice's RBI double and Giancarlo Stanton's two-run single. –Larry Millson, Field Level Media

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