TORONTO
Saturday’s Division Series opener at Rogers Centre followed the Yankees’ winning formula to perfection.
A solid, stingy performance from the starting pitcher. A trio of homers with a few more resourceful runs piled on. The bullpen using a carousel of relievers to ultimately close the door.
This time, however, it wasn’t the Yankees who did all of those things.
That team was the Blue Jays, who soundly throttled Aaron Boone & Co. by beating them at their own game, and alarmingly so, in a 10-1 rout that dredged up terrifying flashbacks from Toronto’s first-half dominance over its AL East rival.
Luis Gil wasn’t the primary reason the Yankees went belly-up in Game 1, just as they did in dropping the Wild Card Series opener to the Red Sox, but his 2 2⁄3-inning cameo was a shockin