Overview

• Toronto advanced to the ALCS by closing out Game 4 with a bullpen game that featured eight pitchers and limited New York to six hits.
• Nathan Lukes delivered a two‑out, two‑run single off Devin Williams in the seventh inning to extend Toronto’s lead to 4-1, proving the decisive swing.
• Rookie Cam Schlittler pitched into the seventh for New York but exited after a potential double-play ball became an error on Jazz Chisholm Jr., setting up Toronto’s rally.
• The Yankees stranded eight runners over the final four innings, loading the bases in the eighth before Jeff Hoffman secured the final out for Toronto.
• New York had forced Game 4 with a 9-6 comeback in Game 3 that included Aaron Judge’s game-tying three-run homer and marked the Yankees’ largest elimination-game rally.