The New York Yankees had a 3-1 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning on Monday, and Mark Leiter Jr. might as well have been Murphy’s Law.
Granted, starter Carlos Rodon started the inning and was yanked immediately after Davis Schneider’s double, and then Leiter got the ball. From then on, the wheels went off the rails. A combination of poor control, getting burned by soft contact, and rare bad defense from Anthony Volpe proved New York’s undoing. Toronto scored four runs and held on for a 5-4 win.
Meanwhile, the rival Rays remain 1.