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Blue Jays slam Yankees, 12-7, with 10-run inning

Danny Jansen hits first career grand slam
September 7, 2020

With just three weeks left in what is already a shortened season, the Blue Jays began their biggest series of the summer with a gigantic victory Monday night from Sahlen Field. Danny Jansen’s first career grand slam capped a 10-run sixth inning as Toronto downed the Yankees, 12-7, in the

With just three weeks left in what is already a shortened season, the Blue Jays began their biggest series of the summer with a gigantic victory Monday night from Sahlen Field.

Danny Jansen’s first career grand slam capped a 10-run sixth inning as Toronto downed the Yankees, 12-7, in the first game of a three-game set at Buffalo. Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Travis Shaw added two-run singles in the rally that allowed the Blue Jays to overcome an early four-run deficit.

Toronto entered Monday with 20 games left in the regular season. Ten of those contests are against the Yankees, who were just one game back of the Blue Jays for second place in the AL East Division.

That lead is now two games thanks to a sixth inning that included 13 Blue Jays batters, five hits, four walks and one big Yankees fielding error.

Trailing 6-2, Santiago Espinal and Cavan Biggio drew walks and Randal Grichuk loaded the bases with one out thanks to a sharp single to left field. Rowdy Tellez then battled back from an 0-2 pitch to hit a full-count chopper to first that was booted by Luke Voit to score a run.

The Yankees turned to their bullpen and called on Adam Ottavino, but the righty faced six batters without recording a single out. Guerrero Jr. greeted Ottavino by chopping the first pitch he threw past Voit and into right field for a two-run single. Three pitches later, Lourdes Gurriel Jr.’s single into left field tied the score at six.

Following a Jonathan Villar walk, Shaw smoked a base hit to right-center that plated two more runs and pinch hitter Joe Panik drew another free-pass to reload the bases. That set the stage for Jansen to put his stamp on the Blue Jays’ first 10-run inning since August 31, 2010 in Tampa Bay. The backstop turned on an Ottavino fastball and crushed it to deep centerfield.

The grand slam was also the first by a Blue Jays backstop since J.P. Arencibia hit one on September 24, 2012 in Baltimore.

The Yankees came out swinging in their first ever game at Sahlen Field and lived up to their ‘Bronx Bomber’ moniker when Voit and Aaron Hicks hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning. Miguel Andujar hit a no-doubt homer for his first of the year in the fourth inning and Clint Frazier doubled home two more with two outs in the fifth to give the Yankees a 5-2 lead. That lead went to 6-2 when Sean Reid-Foley walked in a run in the top of the sixth inning.

But there was no Yankee response to the Blue Jays 10-run inning as Julian Merryweather retired six of the seven batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings. New York did get one more on the board in the ninth inning thanks to an RBI-ground out from Andujar off Anthony Bass.

Hyun-Jin Ryu started for Toronto and allowed five runs on six hits over five innings of work.