If you’re a fan of good defense, Thursday night’s Yankees–Blue Jays game was the game for you.
New York prevailed 8–4 to stretch its winning streak to three games thanks to home runs by Giancarlo Stanton and Gio Urshela and a clutch pinch-hit single by rookie Chris Gittens. The Yankees’ gloves kept the Blue Jays in check, too.
In the first inning, starter Michael King got out of a jam thanks to some awful Toronto baserunning that resulted in a triple play.
Urshela flashed the glove, too. In the fourth, he ranged deep to his right to snare a grounder off the bat of Lourdes Gurriel Jr.