Yankees allow 10+ runs in back-to-back Postseason games for the first time in the history of the franchise

Toronto—The Yankees got dominated by the Blue Jays for the second straight game, 13-7, the first time in franchise history that the Yankees have allowed 10+ runs in back-to-back postseason games. Max Fried got the starting nod for the Yankees and faced off against Trey Yesavage, making his fourth career Major League start. 

Aaron Judge worked a one-out walk in the top of the first inning, his first walk of the Postseason. However, Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice struck out to strand Judge. 

With one out in the bottom of the first inning, Fried gave up a line drive single followed by a high chopper infield single to put two on with one out. But Fried induced a huge double play to help work out of trouble. 

Daulton Varsho led off the bottom of the second inning with a double and ended up moving up to third on an error from Judge. The next batter, Ernie Clement, crushed a two-run homer to give the Jays a 2-0 lead. 

In the top of the third inning, Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, and Trent Grisham struck out in order as Yesavage already has seven strikeouts. 

Fried walked a batter and gave up a single to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to put runners at the corners with one out in the bottom of the third. Alejandro Kirk made it a 3-0 game via an RBI groundout. Daulton Varsho followed that up with an RBI double to make it a 4-0 game. Clement then came through with an RBI single to make it a 5-0 game. 

Judge, Belli, and Rice struck out in order against Yesavage in the top of the fourth inning to put his strikeout total up to 10 already. This is the first time in franchise history the Yankees have struck out 10+ times in the first four innings of a postseason game.

Fried gave up a leadoff single, then walked a batter to the number eight and nine hitters to end his day in the bottom of the fourth inning. Will Warren took over for Fried and walked a batter to load the bases with nobody out. A couple of batters later, Vladdy crushed a grand slam to make it a 9-0 ballgame. A couple of batters later, Varsho launched a two-run bomb to make it an 11-0 game. 

Max Fried's final line: Three innings pitched, eight hits allowed, seven earned runs, two walks, five swings and misses, and one strikeout on 51 pitches. Fried threw the sinker 39% of the time, the cutter 22%, the changeup 12%, the fastball 12%, the curveball 12%, and the sweeper 4% of the time. Fried was flat-out awful today when we needed him most, and the offense didn't give him any run support, but that is no excuse for giving up seven runs. 

"They obviously had a really good approach; they were on a lot of my pitches. Credit to them, I didn't get it done," Fried said. 

"Didn't seem to have the same command, probably not getting pitches to where he wanted to get them," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on Fried. 

George Springer made it 12-0 thanks to a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning. 

In the top of the sixth inning, Judge legged out an infield single for the Yankees' first hit of the ballgame. Belli followed that up with a two-run bomb to make it a 12-2 ballgame. 

Warren served up a solo home run to Varsho in the bottom of the sixth inning, his second of the ballgame, to make it a 13-2 game. 

Ryan McMahon, Paul Goldschmidt, and Trent Grisham all singled to load the bases with one out in the top of the seventh inning. Judge dunked in a RBI bloop single to center field, making it a 13-3 ballgame. Belli followed that up with a sacrifice fly to make it a 13-4 game. Rice just missed a homer, but did come through with an RBI double to make it 13-5. Stanton then came through with a bullet two-run single, making it a 13-7 ballgame. 

Warren remained in the game for the bottom of the seventh inning and worked around a two-out double to put together a scoreless frame. 

McMahon, Volpe, and Goldy went down in order for the Yankees in the top half of the eighth inning. 

Warren picked up the first two outs of the bottom of the eighth inning, then Luke Weaver replaced him and picked up the final out, his first out of October. 

Judge worked a one-out walk in the top of the ninth inning, a couple of batters later Rice worked a walk of his own. However, Stanton went down on strikes to put the Yankees down 0-2 in the series, needing to win three straight to keep their season alive. 

In Game 3, Carlos Rodon will take the ball for the Yankees and face off against former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber, who has made just eight starts in the last two years due to injuries. 

My thoughts on the game: The Yankees have their backs against the wall now, but in 2017, the Yanks came back down 0-2 against a much better Indians team, so it's not impossible, as the 10-time World Series champion Yogi Berra used to say, "It ain't over 'til it's over". Fried, who was so great against the Red Sox on Tuesday, was unfortunately terrible today, giving up seven runs. And to make matters worse, Warren came in and put the nail in the coffin, giving up six runs of his own, but at least Warren saved most of the bullpen. Yesavage just dominated the Yankees for offense for 5.1 innings with 11 strikeouts. The offense ended up showing up after they too, Yesavage outscoring seven runs in 3.2 innings, but it was too little too late. On to Tuesday, let's try to enjoy it, no matter what happens, because obviously, it could be their last game of the season. 

"There's been a lot of weird things that have happened in baseball this year. This would not be the weirdest, us rallying," Boone said.