Trey Yesavage pitched six stellar innings of two-hit ball to outduel Cam Schlittler and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays scratched across two runs in the seventh for a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.

Following a two-hour, 11-minute rain delay, the Blue Jays won for the sixth time in their past 16 games after losing a pair of one-run games to start the four-game series.

After pitching 5 1/3 hitless innings against the Yankees in Game 2 of their American League Division Series last October in Toronto, Yesavage (2-1) allowed two hits and struck out eight.

Yesavage allowed a bloop double to Trent Grisham in the second before striking out Ryan McMahon on a foul tip to end the inning. The right-hander allowed a two-out single to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the fourth and retired Paul Goldschmidt on a pop-up.

Yesavage struck out Aaron Judge three times by getting him via fastballs in the first and fourth before whiffing the slugger on a slider in the sixth. Judge struck out four times and is 1-for-11 in the series with seven strikeouts.

Schlittler (6-2) allowed two runs on eight hits in six-plus innings. The right-hander struck out seven and issued both walks in the seventh when the Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead.

Ernie Clement started the seventh with an infield dribbler halfway down the third base line and Jesus Sanchez followed with a walk. After first baseman Goldschmidt and catcher Austin Wells converged on Brandon Valenzuela's bunt single, Andres Gimenez fouled off seven pitches before capping an 11-pitch plate appearance with a walk that scored Clement.

Gimenez's walk was confirmed via ABS after Wells challenged and Jake Bird replaced Schlittler.

Sanchez was thrown out at the plate by McMahon on a grounder to third and Vladmir Guerrero Jr. lifted a sacrifice fly to the warning track in right on the next pitch.

Blue Jays reliever Jeff Hoffman stranded two in the seventh after Mason Fluharty allowed singles to Chisholm and Goldschmidt. Tyler Rogers pitched a 1-2-3 eighth, and Louis Varland struck out Amed Rosario with a runner on to secure his sixth save.

The Yankees lost for the eighth time in their past 12 games and were blanked until Goldschmidt's soft RBI grounder to Varland. New York also lost center fielder Grisham to left knee discomfort after the fourth.