The pressure is on the Yankees on Sunday.
After dropping Game 1, they’ll look to pull even with the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALDS, which starts at 4:08 p.m. ET on at Rogers Centre.
The Yankees got pummeled, 10-1, on Saturday in Toronto as Luis Gil lasted just 2 ⅔ innings, Luke Weaver struggled again and the offense couldn’t come up with a big hit.
Can Max Fried help the Yankees tie the series, or will they be stymied by Blue Jays rookie starter Trey Yesavage?
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Papi on the Yankees being down 2-0: TORONTO — It’s uncertain when the “step on necks” portion of the postseason is supposed to begin for the Yankees, but it sure as heck better be soon. Baseball’s hottest team entering the playoffs has turned cold up north. It’s not hitting enough and barely pitching at all, and its certainly isn’t stepping on any necks, as Jazz Chisholm Jr. memorably promised would be the Yankees’ October destiny. In reality, the Yankees, MLB’s marquee franchise and its regular-season leaders in runs and home runs, are in peril of being ushered out of the playoffs Tuesday following two straight brutal overall performances vs. the Blue Jays — Sunday’s 13-7 loss in Game 2 the latest. The Bombers return to The Bronx to play Game 3 with no room for error at a time they are back playing bad baseball. Things are looking bleak, to put it mildly, and the Yankees have only themselves to blame. They are being thoroughly outplayed by the team they tied for the top spot in the American League East. They now need three straight wins over a team they’ve beaten in only five of 15 matchups in 2025. Chisholm’s mid-September prediction — “we’re coming to step on necks” — couldn’t feel more wrong now. The Jays, playing without franchise man Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s co-star Bo Bichette, still outplayed the Yankees in every facet of the game all weekend and are one game away from reaching the AL Championship Series.David Ortiz on Yankees-Blue Jays ALDS: 'It's a wrap'
By Andrew Crane
"They can bring Jesus back, and they're still going to Cancun. It's over. It's a wrap." 😂 pic.twitter.com/vRcPuq8gxkYankees set out to ‘step on necks’ — they’re the ones getting stomped
By Jon Heyman 
"It's the postseason, anything can happen"
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 6, 2025
Aaron Judge was asked if he's surprised the Yankees are down 0-2 to the Blue Jays: pic.twitter.com/yYe2cyInAt
"This has got to be cloud nine. I couldn't imagine a better feeling right now."
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 6, 2025
Trey Yesavage talks about how he's feeling after shutting down the Yankees in Game 2 of the ALDS: pic.twitter.com/UTNcPpo0kI
"We did well with our backs against the wall against Boston and now we're going to have to show we can do it again."
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 5, 2025
Ben Rice talks about the keys for the Yankees to turn around their series against the Blue Jays: pic.twitter.com/EvczYQZUhS
"They obviously had a really good approach, they were on a lot of my pitches. Credit to them, I didn't get it done"
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 5, 2025
Max Fried on his outing tonight: pic.twitter.com/lEvVQRnXO2
"Didn't seem to have the same command, probably not getting pitches to where he wanted to get them"
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 5, 2025
Aaron Boone talks about Max Fried's struggles tonight: pic.twitter.com/RLh2p8ZRwb
"There's been a lot of weird things that have happened in baseball this year. This would not be the weirdest, us rallying."
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) October 5, 2025
Aaron Boone talks about his confidence in the Yankees heading into Tuesday night's win-or-go-home Game 3 at Yankee Stadium: pic.twitter.com/6oa1ZjDKeu
TORONTO — The Yankees are in deep split.
The only thing resembling a real competition on the field Sunday at Rogers Centre was which side of the Yankees could be humiliated more: their hitters, who were no-hit for 5 ¹/₃ innings by rookie Trey Yesavage, or their own pitching staff, which, led by Max Fried, got tagged for 11 runs before recording an 11th out.
Yesavage, armed with a devastating splitter, dominated and made life miserable for the Yankees while Fried wilted on the other side of the pitching matchup, resulting in an embarrassing 13-7 beatdown by the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALDS.
The Yankees will need to win all three of the remaining ALDS games — starting with Tuesday in The Bronx — in order to keep their season alive.
Seranthony Domínguez recorded the final three outs in the ninth inning to seal the Blue Jays' dominant 13-7 win Sunday in Toronto. Trey Yesavage started with 5 ⅓ hitless innings in his postseason debut. The Blue Jays torched Max Fried and Will Warren, too. And while the Yankees' offense finally started producing in the sixth and seventh innings, it was too late to mount a serious comeback.
So it'll come down to a must-win Game 3. It'll come down to Carlos Rodón starting for the Yankees. Otherwise, the Yankees' season will end with a disappointing ALDS exit.
It's only one out, and it only took one pitch. But perhaps it could help Luke Weaver change the trajectory of his postseason after struggling through his first appearances.
Daulton Varsho flied out to left on a four-seam fastball, and now Seranthony Domínguez will pitch the ninth for the Blue Jays.
With Game 2 all but over, the Yankees are giving a struggling Luke Weaver a low-leverage spot to rediscover his rhythm.
Weaver, a shut-down reliever in the postseason, has navigated an up-and-down season, with its latest twist unfolding in the playoffs — when he hasn't recorded an out through two appearances.
