Daily Report – 7/3/25
Here is today’s report:
Yankees
This one hurt. A lot. Last night, the Yankees fell to the Blue Jays 11-9, and with the loss, Toronto has tied them for the American League East lead. The Yankees now have losses in 13 of their last 19 games.
What started as a miserable night turned incredible and then heartbreaking. It was the Yankees’ most emotionally exhausting game since Game 5 of the World Series. It started with Will Warren, who gave up seven runs in the first inning and another in the third. Things felt quite bleak in Yankee Land as Alejandro Kirk two-run doubled and Addison Barger three-run homered before Warren could secure a single out. With one out, Davis Schneider delivered a two-run blast for Toronto to make it 7-0.
“You blink and there’s seven runs on the board,” said Warren. In the bottom of the third inning, Will Wagner doubled, and two outs later, Andrés Giménez drove him in with an infield single that deflected off Warren’s glove. Warren watched the ball trickle toward second base, not even attempting to recover it. In that moment, it looked like he and his team had given up.
But then came the fifth inning. Jasson Domínguez led off with a single to left field, and a couple of singles later, the Yankees were on the board. Ben Rice then made it 8-2 with a single of his own, and Aaron Judge drove in a run with a double to right-center that nearly eclipsed the wall. Giancarlo Stanton then drove Rice and Judge home with his first home run of the season, and the score was 8-6. In the sixth inning, the Yankees plated their seventh run, but Davis Schneider’s second home run of the game put Toronto up 9-7 in the seventh inning.
In the top of the eighth inning, Aaron Judge finally had a clutch moment, sending a game-tying two-run 440-foot moonshot to left field. Now that they had come all the way back, it seemed like the Yankees, one of baseball’s worst comeback teams this season, could achieve the unimaginable.
And then came Devin Williams. Good old unreliable Devin Williams. In the bottom of the eighth inning, with one out, George Springer worked a walk, and after stealing second base, Williams intentionally walked Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the middle of his at-bat. Both runners tagged up when Alejandro Kirk flied out to center field, but the inexperienced catcher Ben Rice couldn’t collect a changeup that caught the dirt, allowing Springer to score for the go-ahead run. “I’ve got to make a better pitch there,” said Williams. “It wasn’t the easiest one to block for Ben, so I’ve got to make a better pitch.” Addison Barger, who hit a three-run bomb in the first inning, followed with a single that scored Guerrero, and Toronto was back in the lead 11-9.
And that was all she wrote. There was nothing left for the Yankees in the ninth inning. “We’ve got to play better,” said Aaron Judge. “That’s what it comes down to. If we play better, we’ll put ourselves in a better position, but it’s not concerning. Not concerned about what’s going on around us. We’ve got to control what we do in this room, and not what we do out there on the field. We’re not getting the job done right now, so that’s what it comes down to.”
Tonight, the Yankees will try to regain the lead in the AL East as RHP Clarke Schmidt (4-4, 3.09 ERA) faces off against RHP Chris Bassitt (7-4, 4.29 ERA) (YES).
Here is tonight’s starting lineup for the New York Yankees:
CF Trent Grisham (L)
1B Ben Rice (L)
DH Aaron Judge (C) (R)
RF Cody Bellinger (L)
3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L)
LF Jasson Domínguez (S)
SS Anthony Volpe (R)
C Austin Wells (L)
2B Oswald Peraza (R)
SP: RHP Clarke Schmidt (4-4, 3.09 ERA)
Schedule
7:07 PM: NYY at TOR; YES; SP: RHP Clarke Schmidt (4-4, 3.09 ERA)
