Jays squander 8-run lead, recover to tie Yanks for first in East

Davis Schneider homered twice and Addison Barger also went deep as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting New York Yankees 11-9 on Wednesday night.
Toronto has won the first three games of the four-game series to tie the Yankees for first in the American League East.
The Blue Jays squandered an 8-0 lead, with New York’s Aaron Judge’s two-run homer in the eighth tying the game at 9.
Toronto came back to take an 11-9 lead against Devin Williams (2-3) in the home eighth on two walks, a run-scoring wild pitch and Barger’s RBI single.
Barger finished with four RBIs while Schneider drove in three runs. Andres Gimenez contributed three hits for the Blue Jays.
New York’s Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run homer, while Judge finished with three hits and three RBIs.
Toronto’s Yimi Garcia (1-2) returned from the injured list to pitch the eighth, walking Rice with one out and serving up Judge’s game-tying homer.
In the bottom of the eighth, Williams issued a one-out walk to George Springer, who stole second. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was intentionally walked. The runners advanced on a flyout, and Springer scored on a wild pitch. Barger followed with an RBI single to left.
Jeff Hoffman pitched around a single in the ninth to earn his 20th save.
Toronto scored seven in the first inning against Will Warren.
Gimenez led off with his first of two singles in the inning. George Springer singled and Guerrero walked before Alejandro Kirk hacked a high sweeper to right for a two-run single. Barger homered to center on a first-pitch changeup.
With one out, Will Wagner walked and Schneider homered to center for a 7-0 lead.
Toronto added to the margin in the third when Wagner hit a broken-bat double to left and scored on Gimenez’s two-out infield single that Warren deflected.
Warren completed four innings, allowing eight runs, 10 hits and four walks while striking out four.
The Yankees scored six in the fifth. Jasson Dominguez, Anthony Volpe, DJ LeMahieu and Ben Rice hit consecutive singles to produce two runs. Judge added an RBI double high off the wall in center.
Stanton hit a slurve to center for his first homer of the season to cut the deficit to 8-6. Brendon Little then replaced Toronto starter Jose Berrios, who allowed six runs, nine hits and no walks while fanning three in 4 1/3 innings.
New York scored one in the sixth on Cody Bellinger’s fielder’s-choice grounder.
Schneider homered to right-center on Tim Hill’s first-pitch sinker with two outs in the seventh.