NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ernie Clement had three early RBIs off faltering Marcus Stroman, and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame to beat the Yankees 8-5 Friday night and stop New York鈥檚 five-game winning streak.
鈥淗e鈥檚 an aggressive hitter and he鈥檚 swinging early,鈥� Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 doing a good job of recognizing that and kind of getting pitches a little bit more in the zone.鈥�
Judge鈥檚 two-run, first-inning homer off Kevin Gausman, a 477-footer drive halfway up the left-field bleachers, gave him a big league-best 101 RBIs.
鈥淚f it came with a win tonight that have been pretty sweet,鈥� Judge said.
He became just the fourth Yankees player with three or more 40-homer seasons, joining Babe Ruth (11), Lou Gehrig (five) and Mickey Mantle (four). The drive was the third-longest of Judge鈥檚 career and the second-longest in the major leagues this season behind Jorge Soler鈥檚 478-footer for San Francisco at Colorado on July 21. Judge has six homers against Gausman.
鈥淗e鈥檚 ridiculous,鈥� Schneider said. "His numbers, you look up, it鈥檚 a joke."
Yankees second baseman after three innings for not hustling.
Torres did not run hard out of the batter鈥檚 box on his , thinking it was a home run, and reached only first. That cost the Yankees a run when he was trying to score on Anthony Volpe鈥檚 two-out double into the left-field corner in the second.
鈥淚 just felt like I need to in that spot,鈥� Boone said.
Torres agreed with Boone's decision
鈥淚 feel really sorry," Torres said.
Stroman (7-6) gave up a season-high seven runs and eight hits in a season-low 2 2/3 innings. He was 5-2 with a 2.60 ERA in 12 starts through May and is 2-4 with a 6.32 ERA in 10 starts since.
鈥淟oss is definitely solely on me. Just didn't execute. Just out of rhythm mechanically. Had no feel for my pitches," Stroman said. 鈥淛ust to put us in that position is very disappointing and unacceptable.鈥�
Gausman allowed five runs 鈥� four earned 鈥� and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings.
鈥淗is command wasn鈥檛 great tonight, but he made big pitches,鈥� Schneider said.
In a game that started after an 86-minute rain delay, Vladimir Guerrero hit an RBI single and Clement a two-run double in the first. Spencer Horwitz and Clement had run-scoring singles in the four-run third for a 5-2 lead and Brian Serven, a backup catcher who had been 1 for 21 this season, greeted Michael Tonkin with a two-run single for a 7-2 advantage.
Anthony Volpe hit a two-run homer in the fifth and New York closed to 7-5 when centre-fielder Daulton Varsho bobbled Austin Wells鈥� single for an error that allowed Juan Soto to score. G茅nesis Cabrera stranded a pair of runners when he struck out Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Horwitz singled in a run against Tim Hill in the sixth, and Brendon Little (1-1) stranded two more runners when Soto hit an inning-ending groundout in the bottom half.
Chad Green got three outs for his eighth save in eight chances.
Torres was thrown out on Volpe鈥檚 double when left fielder Joey Loperfido threw to shortstop Leo Jim茅nez, whose relay to Serven sailed to the third-base side of the plate but left the catcher time to make a swipe tag.
on a foul ball in the sixth inning and was replaced in right field in the bottom of the seventh. He was going to have a scan.
"I think it鈥檒l be all right,鈥� Schneider said.
Reliever Enyel De Los Santos, acquired from San Diego on Tuesday, worked around a double and hit batter in the seventh inning of his Yankees debut.
SOCCER STARS
Retired soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovi膰 threw the ceremonial first pitch from the rubber, then exchanged a hug with Yankees captain Aaron Judge. 鈥� Judge had a Manchester City jersey draped on his clubhouse chair signed: 鈥淎aron, Best wishes, Erling Haaland.鈥� Manchester City played a pre-season friendly at Yankee Stadium last weekend, when the Yankees were in Boston.
TRAINER鈥橲 ROOM
Blue Jays: C Alejandro Kirk was out of the starting lineup for the second game in a row since getting hit on the left elbow by a 98 m.p.h. pitch from Baltimore鈥檚 Corbin Burnes. 鈥� LHP Ricky Tiedemann had Tommy John surgery Tuesday.
Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (body fatigue) threw a bullpen session Friday and intends to rejoin the rotation for Sunday鈥檚 series finale after missing one turn.
UP NEXT
Yankees LHP Carlos Rod贸n (11-7, 4.34) starts Saturday against Toronto RHP Jos茅 Berr铆os (9-8, 3.93). Rod贸n has won consecutive starts after going 0-5 in his previous six. Berr铆os beat the Yankees on June 27, allowing two runs and two hits over seven innings 鈥� including Trent Grisham鈥檚 two-run homer. Toronto took a 5-0, first-inning lead off Rod贸n, who gave up a pair of three-run homers to Springer.
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