Blue Jays, in great shape; they beat Yankees

He Japanese pitcher Yusei Kikuchi had another quality outingwhile Vladimir Guerrero Junior he batted timely for the ones Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 5-4to stop them in their attempt to win their sixth series in a row at this start of the Major League season.

The new york ninth They started the season by winning series against the Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto, Miami Marlins and Cleveland Guardians for only the third time in their history. On Monday they had fallen 3-1 in their first game in Canada, so with this defeat they ensured that they would not reach six series wins in a row.

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Kikuchiwho had not won in the campaign, even though he had a good 2.30 ERA after his first three startsbegan by striking out the first three batters he faced, but Giancarlo Stanton, the fourth, hit him and ended up scoring the first run with a single by José Treviño.

After that hit, Kikuchi retired 13 of the next 15 batters he faced., to leave his team in a comfortable position to seek victory. In total he allowed only four hits, with one walk and nine strikeouts, to leave his record at 1-1 with a 2.08 ERA.

Guerrero Junior came in to bat with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth inning and responded with a single that brought two runs, to mark the advantage that was ultimately definitive. He reached base four of the five times he came up to bat with two hits and two walks.

He catcher Danny Jensen had his first game of the season with Torontoso Tijuana native Alejandro Kirk, who had given four hits in his last two games, remained on the bench.

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