None of that stopped Toronto from doing what it's done all week. The Blue Jays' offense has carried the load with Guerrero out, and Saturday's win pushed Toronto to 4-1 over its last five games — a stretch that's turned a team written off in June into a real threat in a crowded Wild Card field.
New York managed just one run all afternoon, plating it in the second inning and going quiet the rest of the way against Toronto's staff. The Blue Jays scratched across a run of their own in the third before turning it into a laugher late, tacking on in the seventh and eighth to pull away.
Judge's ribs situation is trending the right way — he was back playing catch as of Friday — but that's a September problem at the earliest for a Yankees team that just watched a division rival close the gap. Toronto now has to find out how it holds up without Guerrero for a week, right as the schedule offers no cushion.
Whatever answer Toronto finds, the standings say it's working. One game back of the final Wild Card spot, with a division rival that just got the better of them twice in a row — that's about as loud a signal as a late-summer weekend series can send.