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Aaron Judge hit a tiebreaking homer to highlight a three-run sixth inning as the host New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 to complete a doubleheader sweep on Sunday. The Yankees won the opener 11-2 thanks in large part to a bases-clearing double by Austin Wells to cap a six-run third inning off Kevin Gausman. A day after his 33rd birthday, Judge ended a nine-game homerless drought by lining a first-pitch cutter from Toronto starter Chris Bassitt (2-2) into the right-center field seats. Judge extended his on-base streak to 24 games and ended the doubleheader with a major-league-leading .406 batting average. Trent Grisham hit Bassitt's third pitch of the game for a homer, and the Yankees got to him in the sixth with several hard hits. After Judge's homer, Jasson Dominguez roped an RBI double to left to chase Bassitt. Rookie J.C. Escarra added an RBI single off reliever Brendon Little for a 4-1 lead before hitting his first career homer in the eighth. The 415-foot drive into the right-center field bleachers came against former Yankees pitcher Chad Green. Anthony Santander broke an 0-for-25 skid with a tying homer off New York starter Clarke Schmidt in the third. Toronto lost for the seventh time in eight games and was held to three hits. In Schmidt's third start following a shoulder injury, he went five innings, walking four and striking out six, including George Springer and Andres Gimenez with two on in the first. Bassitt allowed four runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings after entering the game without giving up a homer in his first 28 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out five, walked one and retired 10 in a row before Judge went deep. Tim Hill (3-0) and Mark Leiter Jr. followed Schmidt with a scoreless inning apiece. Fernando Cruz fanned Santander with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on first to end the eighth, and Luke Weaver finished up in a non-save situation. --Field Level Media

TJ Friedl and Jose Trevino each had a two-run homer as the visiting Cincinnati Reds snapped a four-game skid with an 11-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night. The Reds, who had scored a total of two runs in their previous four games, tagged Elvin Rodriguez (0-2) for four homers in four innings to go in front 7-0. Milwaukee rallied, however, putting up a run in the fourth inning and adding another four in the fifth. Cincinnati plated three runs in the seventh on Elly De La Cruz's two-run single and a sacrifice fly. Oliver Dunn answered with a bases-loaded double in the home half to pull Milwaukee within 10-7. Gavin Lux's RBI single in the top of the ninth made it 11-7. Reds starter Brady Singer (2-0) allowed five runs (three earned) on nine hits in five innings while striking out seven. The Reds went up 4-0 with two homers in the second. Blake Dunn, inserted into the lineup when Matt McLain was a late scratch, put the Reds in front 2-0 with his first homer, a two-out solo shot. Trevino singled and Friedl followed with his first long ball. Cincinnati added two more homers in the fourth to make it 7-0, as Christian Encarnacion-Strand went deep to open the frame and Trevino delivered a two-run blast. The Brewers, who had won four in a row, got on the board in the bottom half when Sal Frelick smacked a leadoff triple and scored on Oliver Dunn's sacrifice fly. Milwaukee made it 7-5 on a one-out walk and four consecutive singles. After Christian Yelich singled in the first run, William Contreras singled to snap an 0-for-20 skid and load the bases. Frelick followed with an RBI single to right field, but the ball skipped by Jake Fraley, allowing two more runs to score on the error. --Field Level Media

Before the New York Yankees knew they would lose Gerrit Cole to season-ending surgery on his right elbow and Luis Gil would miss extended time due to a right lat strain, Marcus Stroman declared himself to be a starting pitcher in the team's rotation. Stroman will make his season debut against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, one day after the Yankees set a franchise record with nine homers. Stroman will pitch after Aaron Judge homered three times and drove in a career-high eight runs in Saturday's 20-9 rout. Judge hit the Yankees' third straight solo homer in the first inning after Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt went deep before he added a grand slam in the third inning and a two-run homer in the fourth. "It was electric, from the stadium crowd to just the guys in the dugout locked in and fired up," Judge said after the Yankees joined the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays and the 1999 Cincinnati Reds as the third team to hit nine homers in a game. The Yankees are seeking a sweep of the three-game series. Stroman, a right-hander, was 10-9 with a 4.31 ERA in the first season of a two-year contract that contains a conditional player option. He fared well early on, going 7-4 with a 3.51 ERA in 19 starts before the All-Star break. After not appearing in any of New York's postseason games, Stroman's name was linked in trade rumors, especially after the Yankees signed Max Fried. Instead, the Yankees lost Gil for at least three months and Cole underwent Tommy John surgery. During spring training, Stroman was 2-1 with a 4.73 ERA in five starts spanning 13 1/3 innings. "Good, sharp crisp," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said about Stroman's spring training. "I feel like especially his last couple of starts (he) started to get the movement quality, especially on the sinker that he wanted. The cutter has been a really good pitch for him all spring. So I feel like his stuff has been crisp as we've gone. He's getting the movement qualities, kind of where he wants." Stroman is 3-1 with a 3.10 ERA in eight career starts against the Brewers. His last appearance against them occurred in Milwaukee on April 28, when he allowed four runs in four innings in a no-decision. After Freddy Peralta and former Yankee Nestor Cortes started the first two games of this series, Aaron Civale will begin his first full season for the Brewers on Sunday. The team will need some distance after Cortes lasted two-plus innings on Saturday. "It's very unfortunate," Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy said after his team reached on five errors and totaled 13 hits. "What happened was we didn't really have things go our way." Civale was 6-3 with a 3.53 ERA in 14 starts after being acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays on July 3. The right-hander allowed three earned runs or less in 12 outings. He finished the season 8-9 with a 4.36 ERA. Civale is 1-4 with a 5.52 ERA in six career starts against the Yankees. He last faced them on April 21, when he allowed five runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. --Field Level Media