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Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees pitches against the Toronto Blue Jays during the second inning in their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on August 15, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Getty Images<\/p>\nTORONTO \u2014 Perhaps because there is not much else he can do at the moment, Aaron Boone sat in his office Saturday after another familiar loss and pointed to his lineup card.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at these names, [they\u2019re] all capable of doing really big things for us,\u201d the Yankees manager said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And yet, in the same breath, he acknowledged the other reality they are facing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is who we got,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThese are our guys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And more often than not lately, regardless of who they are facing or which names are in the lineup, they have not been good enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once again, the Yankees were shut down Saturday, this time being four-hit by a parade of seven Blue Jays relievers in a 4-1 loss on an otherwise beautiful afternoon at Rogers Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Including the playoffs, the Yankees (68-55) are just 3-11 north of the border dating back to last year, but they can\u2019t hit in any country these days. Since June 20 \u2014 a few weeks after Aaron Judge last played a game \u2014 the Yankees have averaged just 3.3 runs per game. It has been worse of late, scoring just three runs over their past 27 innings \u2014 resulting in three losses that dropped them to seven games back of the Rays entering their Saturday night game \u2014 and scoring two runs or fewer in 10 of their past 15 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees pitches against the Toronto Blue Jays during the second inning in their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on August 15, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, you\u2019re going to go through ups and downs in a season \u2014 I\u2019d say we definitely wouldn\u2019t ever expect it to go so long,\u201d Ben Rice said. \u201cBut with that being said \u2026 we\u2019re going to come out of it. Once we get rolling, hope to start stringing more wins together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before this series \u2014 which will end Sunday with the resurgent Blue Jays (61-64) throwing their ace, Dylan Cease \u2014 the Yankees had gone 5-1-1 in their past seven series, four against playoff teams. And yet, even most of their wins have been excruciating, nail-biting games in which their offense has mustered just enough to narrowly avoid wasting quality starting pitching.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was not the case Saturday, with Cam Schlittler becoming the latest victim, as the Blue Jays broke a 1-1 tie in the seventh inning off Brent Headrick then added two insurance runs in the eighth off Tim Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving some of the right at-bats, but then at the back end of the game, just shut down and kind of went silent again,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBroken record. Obviously, we know we got to be better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked about what he could do to get his offense going, Boone responded that he could \u201cmaybe shake up the order a little bit here and there,\u201d which sounded more like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. And there is no magic bullet sitting on the bench \u2014 instead it resides on the injured list, in the form of Judge (who just started playing catch Friday), Cody Bellinger (who could be back by next weekend) and Giancarlo Stanton (who has been out since late April and remains a mystery for when and in what form he will return).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk (30) celebrates hitting an RBI single against the New York Yankees during the third inning at Rogers Centre. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
But the Yankees do, in fact, have to continue playing games until they return, and cannot afford to just wait for them to save the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday, they got off to a solid start when their two youngest hitters in the lineup, Spencer Jones and George Lombard Jr. strung a single, stolen base and single together to create a 1-0 lead in the second inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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But they did not have another hit until the seventh inning, when Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. led off with a single, just to be promptly erased as he was caught stealing second base. Garc\u00eda stole just four bases with the Nationals this season but Boone cited Blue Jays righty Spencer Miles being slow to the plate and trying to \u201cexploit\u201d that to make something happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along the way, the Yankees\u2019 best run-suppressing starter (Schlittler in 5\u2009\u00b9\/\u2083 innings) and reliever (Headrick) each dared to give up a run, which was effectively too much for their offense to overcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had one offensive explosion [scoring 10 runs Wednesday against the Mariners], and if not for what we\u2019ve been going through the last couple months, these last few days are a little bit of tough luck involved, where guys are hitting some balls on the screws, we\u2019re putting the ball in play mostly,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut it\u2019s the big leagues and we\u2019re fighting down the stretch now to be a playoff team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Perhaps because there is not much else he can do at the moment, Aaron Boone sat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[42654,148,3949,49,48,1017],"class_list":["post-169623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}