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Toronto Blue Jays' Ace Moves to Top of Unfortunate All-Time List in Team History

Kevin Gausman of the Toronto Blue Jays threw a gem on Tuesday night but still registered a no-decision against the New York Yankees.

Brady Farkas

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The Toronto Blue Jays suffered a very tough loss on Tuesday night, falling 2-0 to the New York Yankees at Rogers Centre.

Yankees' rookie Austin Wells hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning off of Jays' closer Jordan Romano in the win. 

Toronto is now 87-70 on the season. While they currently hold the No. 2 wild card spot in the American League, they are only 2.0 games away from being out of the playoffs entirely, so wins are critical at this juncture.

The loss also wasted an excellent performance from Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman, who threw 7.0 scoreless innings. He took the no-decision despite allowing just three hits and striking out five.

Per @StatsCentre:

Most scoreless 6+ IP starts without getting a win - Season by a #BlueJays pitcher: 

4- Kevin Gausman (2023 via Tuesday's no decision effort in his team's 2-0 loss vs NYY) 3- Jimmy Key (1985) 

3- Shaun Marcum (2007) 

3- Marcus Stroman (2017) 

3- Marco Estrada (2017) 

3- Gausman (2022)

That's difficult company to be in for Gausman, who has been great this year. The 32-year-old is 12-9 with a 3.16 ERA. He's struck out a whopping 237 batters in 185.0 innings as well.

He's in his second year in Toronto after spending time with the Orioles, Braves, Reds, and Giants. Lifetime, he's 88-91 with a 3.84 ERA.

The Yankees and Blue Jays play each other again on Wednesday night at 7:07 p.m. ET. Gerrit Cole (NYY) pitches against Jose Berrios (TOR).

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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