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“#Yankees hold off Blue Jays for first win<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Yankees remade their starting rotation, but they still figure to rely heavily on their bullpen.<\/p>\n

Even without Aroldis Chapman for a second straight game<\/a>, the relief corps helped the Yankees get their first victory of the season, a 5-3 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

They got a second homer in as many games from Gary Sanchez and a two-run single from Jay Bruce, but they were clinging to a two-run lead in the eighth inning when Darren O\u2019Day allowed a pair of bloop singles to open the inning.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Day recovered to get a pair of outs before manager Aaron Boone went to Chad Green for a four-out save. With two on and two out in that eighth inning, the right-hander got Rowdy Tellez swinging on a 1-and-2, 95-mph four-seamer to preserve the two-run lead.<\/p>\n

Green finished the game in the ninth in front of an announced crowd of 10,107 at Yankee Stadium. Chapman will be back Sunday after serving his two-game suspension for throwing near the head of the Rays\u2019 Mike Brosseau last season.<\/p>\n

The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the second. Gio Urshela hit a two-out single and went to third on a hard Clint Frazier double to left. DJ LeMahieu followed with a slow grounder to third and Cavan Biggio\u2019s throw pulled Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\u2019s foot off the first-base bag, resulting in an RBI single as Urshela scored.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Loaisiga got the win out of the bullpen for the Yankees on Saturday.<\/figcaption>
Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toronto tied the game in the third with the help of a pair of walks by Yankees starter Corey Kluber. A wild pitch allowed Danny Jansen to get to third and Jansen scored when Marcus Semien swiped second and Sanchez\u2019s throw went into center field for an error.<\/p>\n

Kluber escaped trouble in the top of the fourth. Guerrero and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit back-to-back singles with one out and Randal Grichuk drew a two-out walk before Jansen grounded out to keep the game tied.<\/p>\n

Sanchez put the Yankees ahead again in the bottom of the inning, when he led off with his second homer in as many games. After falling behind 0-and-2, Sanchez got the count back to 2-and-2 and then sent a shot into the left field seats for a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

A one-out walk to Frazier and a single from LeMahieu knocked Jays starter Ross Strip<\/a>ling out of the game in the fourth. Aaron Judge\u2019s single off Tyler Chatwood loaded the bases for Aaron Hicks, whose infield hit drove in a run to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n