Blue Jays vs Yankees: Tonight's Lineup - Game Preview

The Jays are on a season-long five-game losing streak after losing their final two of a home series vs. Seattle last weekend and then getting largely trucked in a three-game series in Houston to open this week, outscored a combined 15-2 to fall under .500 for the first time since the team was 1-2.

The Blue Jays hit a combined .100 in the Astros series and are batting .188 in the five-game skid. Anthony Santander is hitless in his last 17 at-bats, dropping his average to .189. Andrés Giménez is batting .160 this month.

Jose Berrios came away with a no-decision in his last outing an 8-4 extra-innings loss to the Mariners, giving up three runs on four hits and four walks over six-plus innings. He struck out three.

The right-hander produced his second quality start in five trips to the mound on 82 pitches (47 strikes), but a solo shot by rookie Ben Williamson to lead off the seventh inning tied the game at 3-3 and denied Berrios a shot at his second win of 2025.

He'll carry a 5.02 ERA, 1.43 WHIP and 24:13 K:BB through 28.2 innings into Fridays outing against the Yanks.

New York also has been off since Wednesday, finishing a seven-game road trip to Tampa and Cleveland at 4-3 following Wednesday's 5-1 victory in Ohio to avoid being swept for the first time in 2025.

Aaron Judge raised his MLB-leading average to .415 by going 2-for-4 with a triple (only sixth career), RBI and run scored. He's already a whopping -600 favourite to win yet another AL MVP.

Through 25 games last year by comparison, Judge was hitting .191. The only other regular hitting much right now is first-year Yankee and former NL MVP Paul Goldschmidt at .383.

The good news for the Blue Jays is Carlos Carrasco has not been effective for the Yankees so far in 2025 and it just might be what the doctor ordered to get their bats going on Friday.

Carrasco did not factor into the decision in his last outing in a 10-8 extra-inning loss to the Rays, allowing four runs on six hits and two walks with one strikeout over four innings.

Carrasco was spotted a 6-1 lead but yielded three runs in the fourth inning and was pulled after 75 pitches.

He threw just 38 of them for strikes while managing only two whiffs. The veteran has given up at least three runs in four of his five outings and owns an uninspiring 6.53 ERA, 1.45 WHIP and 15:7 K:BB across 20.2 innings.