Trent Grisham has quietly been raking, and Friday night in Toronto he backed that up with a solo shot that briefly had the Yankees ahead of the Blue Jays. It was his 16th homer of the season, and for a while it looked like the story of the night.
Grisham's solo home run left the bat at 100.3 MPH and traveled 359 feet, putting the Yankees up 1-0 in the 6th.
Then the 6th inning turned into an absolute mess. A collision at third base sent a runner crashing into the Yankees infielder as the ball rolled loose, the kind of sloppy, chaotic sequence that makes broadcasters just shake their heads.
A baserunner barrels into the Yankees infielder near third as the ball squirts free in the middle of a chaotic 6th inning.
That play helped set up Toronto's response — the Jays scored in the bottom of the 6th, aided by a throwing error that let Vladimir Guerrero Jr. score, with Alejandro Kirk adding an RBI double. Same half-inning, Yankees manager Aaron Boone got tossed by home-plate umpire Vic Carapazza after arguing a strike call against Shane Bieber, his 4th ejection of the season and 50th of his career.
Barstool accounts were riffing on the whole circus while it unfolded, including a jab at a Blue Jays player's exaggerated celebration during the mess — a moment Marty Mush joked he'd rather pretend never happened, given Toronto was still trailing at the time.
A Blue Jays baserunner pumps his fists rounding the bases mid-inning while the scoreboard still shows New York up 1-0.
Kirk wasn't done — he added a solo homer, his 5th of the year, in the 8th to put it away, and Louis Varland closed it out for the save. Gerrit Cole started for New York but got no help from the offense once Grisham's homer wore off, and the Yankees fell 3-1 in a game that had more going on than the final score suggests.