Carlos Rodon lays a clunker as Blue Jays chase another Yankees starter

The Yankees have played three games against the Blue Jays in the ALDS, and they got terrible starting pitching in all of them.

After Luis Gil and Max Fried failed to last more than three innings in the first two games, Carlos Rodón delivered the biggest clunker of the series, knocked out after just 2 ⅔ innings, having allowed six runs in a must-win game in Game 3 in The Bronx.

Heading into the series, the Yankees were considered to have more depth in the rotation, with Toronto seemingly needing to go with a bullpen game if it went to a Game 4.

But Gil was outdueled by Kevin Gausman in the opener, and Fried gave up seven runs in three-plus innings in Game 2, with Toronto rookie Trey Yesavage keeping the Yankees hitless into the sixth.

Rodón struggled from the start on Tuesday, giving up a two-run homer to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with one out in the first after Guerrero came into the game 10-for-17 against the left-hander in his career.

Rodón escaped trouble in the second, but in the third, he allowed a leadoff double to Davis Schneider, walked Guerrero intentionally and then a one-out single to Daulton Varsho that scored Schneider when the Yankees botched the relay.

Ernie Clement added an RBI single before Anthony Santander ended Rodón’s night with a two-run single to right to put the Yankees in a 6-1 hole.

Fernando Cruz entered and got pinch-hitter Addison Barger swinging and Andrés Gimenez on a groundout to end the inning.