Cam Schlittler outdueled by Trey Yesavage as Yankees fall to Blue Jays

The Cam Schlittler-Trey Yesavage Show lived up to the billing, with both young right-handers dominant through six innings.But once the Yankees got Yesavage out of the game after six shutout innings, their lineup still couldn’t get going in a 2-1 loss to Toronto in The Bronx.

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.While Schlittler and Yesavage went toe to toe, Schlittler faltered in the seventh and the Yankees — who were unable to even get a hit against Yesavage the last time they saw him in October — were again overmatched by the 22-year-old.A pair of runs allowed by Schlittler in the seventh was enough.Schlittler gave up a soft leadoff infield single to Ernie Clement to open the inning and walked Jesús Sánchez before Brandon Valenzuela reached on a bunt to load the bases with no one out.Ex-Met Andrés Giménez then walked after an 11-pitch plate appearance to force in the game’s first run and end Schlittler’s night.Jake Bird got George Springer to hit a chopper to third, where Ryan McMahon made a great stop and strong throw home for the second out, but a sacrifice fly from Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

scored Valenzuela to make it 2-0.The Yankees forced Yesavage to throw 95 pitches in his six scoreless innings but were unable to get much against Toronto’s bullpen.In the bottom of the ninth, Cody Bellinger doubled off Louis Varland before Jazz Chisholm Jr.reached when Varland dropped a comebacker.With runners on the corners, Paul Goldschmidt hit another one back to Varland to score Bellinger and make it a one-run game and move Chisholm to second.Amed Rosario whiffed to end it.The start of the game was delayed more than two hours by rain before both pitchers came out firing.Schlittler entered the game with an MLB-best 1.35 ERA, while Yesavage had allowed just three earned runs in 19 ¹/₃ innings over his first four starts this season after dealing with a s...