Saturday's 3:07 PM ET matinee pits Cam Schlittler against Kevin Gausman, and on paper that's a problem for New York. Gausman has been the version Toronto needed all year — a 3.23 ERA, quality starts in 7 of 11, and a four-seam fastball that has hitters chasing again. Schlittler is the rookie story of the Yankees season at 3-1 with a 1.77 ERA, but he was tagged for 5 runs in 4.1 innings the last time he saw Cleveland before bouncing back with 8 innings of 1-earned-run ball at Fenway. What makes this preview weird is how little it should matter that the Yankees are missing Aaron Judge. Since the rib fracture sent him to the IL with a 4-to-6 week timeline, New York has gone 4-0-1, including a sweep in Cleveland to close their road swing. Ben Rice, Cody Bellinger, and a red-hot Paul Goldschmidt (.313 over 30 days) have done the heavy lifting, with Jazz Chisholm picking up the slack. Giancarlo Stanton won't be back on this trip and Austin Wells is still nursing a head issue, so the lineup looks light on paper and just keeps producing anyway. Toronto's problem is bigger than one pitching matchup. The Jays are 33-36, just got punched around by Philadelphia at home (a series they lost 2-1 with a 7-4 finale), and the injury list reads like a roster wipe — Berrios (Tommy John), Bowden Francis, Bieber still rehabbing, Alejandro Kirk possibly back this weekend, Daulton Varsho day-to-day with the wrist, Anthony Santander and Addison Barger long gone. They keep hanging around .500 because Gausman and the back of the bullpen have been steady, but the margin for error is zero. The Yankees missed Gausman the first time these teams met this year, and they did not miss him in last October's ALDS, where he held them to a run over 5.2 in a series they lost. There's a real revenge-tour element here even with Judge in the dugout. If the Yankee bats — specifically Rice and Goldy — can get to him a third time through the order, this Toronto bullpen is short enough handed that the game can flip in a hurry. Bottom line for Saturday: the Yankees are the better team, the better roster (yes, even now), and the hotter team. The Jays' only real lane is Gausman pitching 7 innings of vintage Cy Young-runner-up baseball and the home crowd doing the rest. It's a live lane — just not a wide one.