Ben Rice and Jose Caballero homered in a five-run ninth inning on Sunday afternoon and the visiting New York Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3.
New York took two of three in the series after winning on Paul Goldschmidt’s ninth-inning homer on Saturday.
Goldschmidt reached second with one out in the ninth when Toronto reliever Braydon Fisher (2-2) threw wildly to first on his infield hit. Rice followed with a mammoth homer to right on a 3-2 slider. Fisher walked Jasson Dominguez. Tommy Nance took over with two out and Jazz Chisholm Jr. walked for the third time. Caballero homered to center on a first-pitch sinker.
Camilo Doval (3-0) pitched a perfect eighth to earn the win. Goldschmidt had three hits.
Davis Schneider hit a solo homer for Toronto.
The Yankees scored twice in the second against Patrick Corbin. Max Schuemann doubled off the left-field wall with one out and scored on Anthony Volpe’s single to center. Ali Sanchez stroked an RBI double to center.
Toronto scored once in the third against Will Warren. Nathan Lukes led off with an infield hit to second and Alejandro Kirk grounded a single to right. Yohendrick Pinango grounded into a double play. Lukes scored on Kazuma Okamoto’s infield hit to third.
Corbin allowed two runs, seven hits and no walks with three strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.
Toronto tied the game in the fourth. Ernie Clement singled, took second on George Springer’s two-out single and scored on Nathan Lukes’ single.
Warren allowed two runs, eight hits and three walks with one strikeout four innings.
New York took a 3-2 lead against Spencer Miles in the sixth. Pinch hitter Chisholm walked, stole second and took third on a groundout. Chisholm was out after a rundown on Schuemann’s grounder to the pitcher. Schuemann took second on the play and scored on Volpe’s single to left.
Schneider tied the game at 3 when he homered to center against Jake Bird in the bottom of the sixth.
Toronto manager John Schneider was ejected for arguing a balk call in the top of the eighth.
Toronto was without Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (tight back) and Andres Gimenez (sore hand).
–Field Level Media
