Yankees brutal day where everything went wrong ends with quiet bats in loss to Blue Jays

The way the afternoon was going, it would have been apt for Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s liner to right field to hit a rock, ricochet back toward first base and go down as one more out.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

No, that did not happen, and Chisholm’s drive touched grass and went as the first knock of the game for the Yankees, who did not get no-hit.But virtually everything else went wrong on a Saturday that might not have been historically terrible for the Yankees but was plain terrible nonetheless.The Yankees’ losses from a bright, sunny weekend day that featured a comfortable breeze: Giancarlo Stanton, Ryan Weathers and a game, falling 4-3 to the Blue Jays in The Bronx in front of 46,231 who at least could take heart that they witnessed their team’s offense avoid ignominy.The Yankees (73-56) snapped a five-game win streak and fell to 3 ½ games behind the Rays before Tampa Bay’s late game, though the division race — given an added spotlight Friday, when Aaron Boone’s group closed to within three games for the first time in weeks — felt immaterial by the end of this comedy and tragedy of errors.The day started with Boone revealing Stanton, a Hall of Fame-type bat when healthy and a clubhouse deity, had strained a calf for a third time this year.The bleakness turned to darkness in the fourth inning, when Weathers — amid his first season in pinstripes and the best season of his career, having allowed one or zero runs in five straight outings entering play — threw a sweeper to Myles Straw and immediately betrayed something had gone wrong.He circled the mound, looked uncomfortable and soon enough exited with a trainer with what the Yankees called left forearm discomfort, which required immediate imaging.As his career-most innings mounted, Weathers has seemed a candidate to be transitioned to relief, where his stuff might play up in a bullpen ...