Cease made the injury math irrelevant early. He carried a no-hit bid into the 7th inning before Jazz Chisholm Jr. finally got New York on the board, and by then Toronto had already banked single runs in the 1st, 4th and 5th off George Springer, Charles McAdoo and Nathan Lukes.
New York made it interesting late. Austin Wells drove in a run right behind Chisholm's hit in the 7th, and Luis Garcia Jr.'s two-run homer in the 8th pulled the Yankees within one. But Lukes answered with a solo shot of his own in the top of the 8th, and Toronto's bullpen made the one-run edge stand up despite New York committing 2 errors that could've opened the door further.
The loss snaps New York's longest run of the season and puts a small dent in a stretch that had the club cutting into Tampa Bay's lead in the AL East. For Toronto, which had lost its last two meetings with the Yankees, it was a much-needed answer — one delivered by a starter who's been the rare bright spot on a pitching staff gutted by injury all year.