2017 GAME NOTES American League East Champions 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2015 American League Champions 1992, 1993 World Series Champions 1992, 1993 Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Media Department Follow us on Twitter @BlueJaysPR Game #161 Road #80 (33-46), TORONTO BLUE JAYS (75-85) at NEW YORK YANKEES (90-69), Saturday, September 30, 2017 PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS: (All Times Eastern) Saturday, September 30 at New York Yankees, 1:05 pm…RHP Marcus Stroman (13-8, 3.06) vs. LHP Jaime Garcia (5-10, 4.41) Sunday, October 1 at New York Yankees, 3:05 pm…LHP Brett Anderson (4-4, 6.97) vs. LHP Jordan Montgomery (9-7, 3.96) ON THE ROAD AGAIN: 2017 AT A GLANCE This afternoon, Toronto continues its final series of 2017 (2-2) with Record ............................................................... 75-84, T-4th, 17.0 GB the second game of three in New York…The Jays are 33-46 in away Home Attendance (Total & Average) ...................... 3,203,886/39,554 affairs this season…The .418 win% is their lowest since 2012 (32- Sellouts (2017) ................................................................................ 17 49, .395). 2016 Season Record after 161 Games ...................................... 88-73 The Blue Jays have won 4 of their last 7 road games…Captured a 2016 Season Record after 160 Games ...................................... 87-73 series win in Boston for the first road series win since 7/31-8/2 at Come From Behind Wins ................................................................ 39 CWS and are now 1-4-2 in their last 7 road series…Have doubled in Last Shutout by Blue Jays ........................ 4-0, Aug. 10, 2017 vs. NYY 15 consecutive road contests (36-2B)…Are averaging 4.53 R/G on Last Shutout by Opponent ....................... 4-0, Sept. 29, 2017 at NYY the road this season (14th in MLB, 7th in AL). Under JOHN GIBBONS ......................................................... 719-699 vs. RHS/LHS .................................................................... 58-62/17-23 BLUE JAYS vs. YANKEES: Blue Jays/Opponents scoring first .................................... 42-34/33-50 All-Time: 276-335...All-Time, on the Road: 129-177...2017: 9-8 Games decided in final AB/Walk-Off .................................. 16-18/7-15 The Blue Jays have won 8 of their last 13 meetings with the 1-Run Games ............................................................................. 25-26 Yankees and are 3-4 at Yankee Stadium this season…Won each of Franchise record ................................................................ 3242-3273 the previous two season series are now 34-21 vs. NYY since the Home/Road ...................................................................... 42-39/33-46 start of 2015…Toronto’s .618 win% over the last 3 seasons is the Series Record/Home/Road .......................... 18-24-9/ 12-11-3/ 6-13-6 highest against NYY of all AL teams. Series Openers/Finales .................................................... 23-29/23-27 Jose Bautista leads the franchise with 35 home runs against the After 7.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing ...................................... 54-9/15-8/6-68 Yankees, 7 more than any other player…His 36 career HR vs. NYY After 8.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing ...................................... 64-7/6-10/5-68 ranks 1st among all active players…Is also tied for 2nd with 83 RBI. Extra-Inning Games/Home/Road ................................... 5-14/1-2/4-12 Kevin Pillar has hits in 13 of 16 games against the Yankees this Vs. East/Central/West/NL ............................. 32-42/13-18/21-14/9-11 season with 4-2B, 1-HR, and 3-RBI…Kendrys Morales has reached Pre/Post All-Star Break .................................................... 41-47/34-38 base in 12 of 15 contests vs. New York this year with 3-2B, 2-HR, 7- 2017 at ROGERS CENTRE RBI and 3-BB. Blue Jays HR Dome Open/Cld………………….………………….54/51 Opponents HR Dome Open/Cld…………………………………....57/42 JOSE, JOSE, JOSE, JOSE: W/L, 2017 open/closed/other…………………………..22-18/20-14/0-7 Jose Bautista hit his 23rd home run on Wednesday, after going 16G All-time/open/closed/other. ........ ..1250-1039/685-574/495-413/70-52 without any…Was the 6th of his career vs. Rick Porcello, tied with th David Price for his most off any pitcher…The run was his 790 as a THE LATEST: Blue Jay, passing Vernon Wells (789) for 2nd most in club history The Blue Jays opened up a three game series in New York with a 4-0 (Carlos Delgado - 889). loss…It was the ninth the bats have been shutout this season, Bautista, Blue Jays Ranks - All-Time second time by the Yankees (June 3 @ TOR) and just the third time 336 Home Runs 2nd 1232 Games 4th on the road…Five of the shuouts have come in the last 34 games... 790 Runs 2nd .373 OBP 4th The loss drops Toronto to 33-46 on the road this season after 765 RBI 3rd .507 SLG 3rd collecting 43 road wins last season. 803 Walks 2nd .880 OPS 2nd Matched a franchise record for a nine inning game by striking out 18 times (Tanaka-15, Robertson-1, Chapman-2)…Also done August 28, AFTER-THE-BREAK AFTERBURNER: 2011 vs Tampa Bay in a 12-0 loss (D. Price-14, B. Gomes-2, C. Josh Donaldson went 1-for-4, 2B yesterday to snap a streak of six Ramos-2) and July 25, 1989 at Texas in 4-0 win(N. Ryan-14, K consecutive multi-hit road games, which tied for the 2nd longest such Rogers-3, P.Wilmet-1)…Have recorded 1,291 strikeouts this season streak in club history (1st, Dave Collins - 7G in 1984)…Over the last after setting the franchise record of 1,362 last season…Of the 18 seven road games is now batting .581 (18-for-31) with 13-R, 4-2B, strikeouts, 17 were swinging and Ryan Goins was caught looking in 8-HR and 11-RBI…In the last 30 days has posted an OPS on the the third. road of 1.000 to rank 2nd in MLB, Jose Ramirez 1st at 1.044 (Inside The Blue Jays haved dropped two straight games and have now won Edge)…Since the All-Star Break, he leads the AL with 24 HR while 4 of their last 7 games and are 11-8 over their last 19 contests… ranking 2nd in SLG (.614) and OPS (1.005), T-4th in RBI (52) and 4th Remain tied for 4th in the AL East standings with the Orioles (75- in BB (45). 85)…Have been tied for 4th for 24 days this season (5th place for 155 AL, HR Post All-Star Break - 2017 days)…The Jays can take sole possession of 4th place with a win Rank Player HR RBI today and a Baltimore loss…Toronto has not been higher in the 1 Josh Donaldson 24 52 AL East standings than tied for 4th since the season began. 2 Nelson Cruz 21 47 2 Aaron Judge 21 46 ALSO YESTERDAY: 4 5 players 20 -- The Blue Jays relievers recorded six strikeouts in 3.0 innings of work…This season the bullpen has recorded a franchise record 625 QUITE A COMBO: strikeouts in 588.2 innings which is also a franchise high…The Kendrys Morales homered in Boston on Tuesday and now ranks 4th previous mark was 510 strikeouts in the 2013 season (552.2IP). among MLB switch-hitters with 28 HR while Justin Smoak leads the RHP Joe Biagini started for Toronto and took the loss to fall to 3-13 way (38 HR)…Their total of 66 HR is the most ever by a Toronto on the season (5.0. 6H, 3R/ER, 1BB, 3K)…The last Blue Jays pitcher switch-hitting duo…The Smoak/Morales combo is now just 2 homers to finish a season ten games below .500 was Juan Guzman in 1995 shy of the best such season all-time (courtesy STATS). when he posted a 4-14 record. MLB, Most HR by Switch-Hitting Duo - All-Time Year Team Total Players TEOSCAR TIME: 2009 New York Yankees 68 Mark Teixeira 39, Nick Swisher 29 Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run home run in the 9th inning on 2017 Toronto Blue Jays 66 Justin Smoak 38, Kendrys Morales 28 Wednesday, extending his club record for rookie HR in 2011 New York Yankees 62 Mark Teixeira 39, Nick Swisher 23 September to 8…Also set the team rookie record for RBI in 2010 New York Yankees 62 Mark Teixeira 33, Nick Swisher 29 September at 20 (Josh Phelps-19 in 2002)…Posted RBI in six 1993 New York Mets 61 Bobby Bonilla 34, Eddie Murray 27 straight games(11-total), the longest by a Blue Jay since Edwin Encarnacion’s club-record-tying 8-game stretch from Aug. 22-30, TRIPLE TROUBLE: 2015…Hernandez has gone 22-for-81 (.272) with 16-R, 6-2B, 8-HR The Blue Jays have hit just 5 triples this season and have gone 42 and 5-BB in 24G as a Blue Jay while slugging .642 with a .952 OPS. games without one…The 5-3B are the fewest by any team in MLB history in a season of 13+ games…Toronto has 2 games left to TOR, Rookie HR in September - All-Time catch the previous low of 6 triples, which was set last season by Rank Player Season HR RBI Baltimore. 1 Teoscar Hernandez 2017 8 20 DIVISIONAL DRAMA: 2 Josh Pelphs 2002 6 19 The Jays have gone 6-4 in their last 10 divisional games…Are now 3 Jose Cruz Jr. 1997 5 12 32-42 against the AL East this season, tied with Tampa Bay for the 3 Jesse Barfield 1982 5 9 worst record within the division…Toronto hasn’t finished with a losing 3 Randy Ruiz 2009 5 9 record against its closest rivals since 2013 (30-46), which was also th the last time it finished 5 in the division.