None of that stopped the board from pricing New York as the clear favorite, and the market got this one right. The Yankees turned a tight early game into a laugher by the middle innings, and by the time the dust settled, Toronto's stay-close approach to this series had run out of games.
Spencer Jones and Austin Wells opened the scoring with RBI doubles off Soriano in the second inning, and Toronto answered with sacrifice flies from Brett Bateman and Daz Cameron to stay within range through four innings. It was a competitive ballgame for a while — until it wasn't.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. broke it open with a two-run homer in the seventh, and Trent Grisham tacked on a solo shot in the eighth to turn the afternoon into an 8-3 rout. Alejandro Kirk's RBI single in the eighth was as close as Toronto would get to a real answer, and New York closed out the series having taken two of three.
For a Blue Jays club sitting a game and a half back of the final AL Wild Card spot at 64-67, series like this one are exactly where the margin for error gets thin. For New York, it's another data point that even with Judge, Stanton and now Weathers all sidelined, this roster still has enough pitching and power to steamroll the middle of the schedule.