TORONTO — A nasty splitter helped Nathan Eovaldi navigate and at times dominate one of baseball’s best lineups through four innings Thursday night.
But the pitch flattened out on him at a couple of inopportune times in the innings that followed, leading to the Yankees’ 4-2 loss to the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.
A three-run homer by reigning AL MVP Josh Donaldson with two outs in the fifth turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 Toronto lead and Troy Tulowitzki’s solo blast in the sixth made it 4-2.
That was enough for Toronto ace and former Patchogue-Medford High School star Marcus Stroman, who turned in his best outing of the young season.