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Yankees’ German Struggles In Return, Blue Jays Take Rubber Game

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Randal Grichuk homered off Domingo Germán in the Yankee right-hander’s return from a domestic violence ban, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat New York 3-1 Sunday to win a season-opening series against their AL East rival.

A slimmed-down Guerrero — the 22-year-old claimed to lose 42 pounds in the offseason — had a hit in all three games in the series, including an opposite-field shot leading off the second inning against Germán. It was Guerrero’s first homer of the season after he underwhelmed in 2020, hitting .