Yankees go deep with four solo home runs in 7-0 win over Blue Jays
TORONTO — Jason Grilli got his name in the Blue Jays record books on Saturday. It wasn’t the type of benchmark he wanted, though.
Grilli came on in the eighth inning and gave up solo homers to Brett Gardner, Matt Holliday, Starlin Castro and Didi Gregorius en route to a 7-0 loss to the New York Yankees, becoming the first Toronto reliever in the team’s 40-year history to surrender four home runs in a single inning.
With few rested options in the bullpen, manager John Gibbons tried to keep the 15-year veteran in the inning as long as he could before finally pulling him after the fourth homer, replacing him with J.P. Howell with two out.
“That’s never easy for a manager to sit there (and watch) because you know what’s inside the guy, you know what the guy’s made of — he’s team all the way,” Gibbons said of Grilli, who did not talk to the media after the game.