The means the afternoon was going, it would have been apt for Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s liner to proper area to hit a rock, ricochet back toward first base and go down as one more out.

No, that did not occur, and Chisholm’s drive touched grass and went as the first knock of the sport for the Yankees, who did not get no-hit.

But just about everything else went fallacious on a Saturday that might not have been traditionally horrible for the Yankees but was plain horrible nonetheless.

The Yankees’ losses from a brilliant, sunny weekend day that featured a comfy breeze: Giancarlo Stanton, Ryan Weathers and a sport, falling 4-3 to the Blue Jays in The Bronx in entrance of 46,231 who at least could take coronary heart that they witnessed their workforce’s offense keep away from ignominy.

New York Yankees shortstop José Caballero (72) reacts after lining into a double play to finish the fifth inning during a sport against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for the NY Post

The Yankees (73-56) snapped a five-game win streak and fell to 3 ½ video games behind the Rays before Tampa Bay’s late sport, though the division race — given an added highlight Friday, when Aaron Boone’s group closed to within three video games for the first time in weeks — felt immaterial by the finish of this comedy and tragedy of errors.

The day began with Boone revealing Stanton, a Hall of Fame-type bat when wholesome and a clubhouse deity, had strained a calf for a third time this 12 months.

The bleakness turned to darkness in the fourth inning, when Weathers — amid his first season in pinstripes and the finest season of his profession, having allowed one or zero runs in 5 straight outings getting into play — threw a sweeper to Myles Straw and instantly betrayed something had gone fallacious.

He circled the mound, seemed uncomfortable and quickly enough exited with a coach with what the Yankees called left forearm discomfort, which required quick imaging.

As his career-most innings mounted, Weathers has appeared a candidate to be transitioned to aid, where his stuff might play up in a bullpen that did not improve at the deadline.

That October future is now in doubt.

New York Yankees pitcher Ryan Weathers (40) pulls himself from the sport in the fourth inning as the New York Yankees play the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY. Jason Szenes for the NY Post

The hits maintain on coming for the Yankees, who already are notably with out Aaron Judge, Max Fried, Ryan McMahon and (briefly) Cody Bellinger.

But the precise hits were more durable to come by.

The Yankees did not document a hit against Dylan Cease until there were two outs in the seventh inning, when Chisholm’s single did not discover a trampoline and bounce back toward the infield.

Cease then served up an RBI single to Austin Wells before he was lifted after 111 pitches and just these two hits.

Luis García Jr. added a two-run residence run against Tyler Rogers in the eighth, but that was as shut as the Yankees would get.

New York Yankees heart fielder Trent Grisham reacts after hanging out swinging with a runner on third base to finish the ninth inning on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 4-3. Jason Szenes for the NY Post

Toronto used a flurry of hits — 15 in complete, including three of the first 4 batters whom Weathers saw — to rating single runs in the first, fourth, fifth and eighth in a sport that should not have been as shut as it was.

There were defensive miscues from the Yankees, including George Lombard Jr.’s second error in as many days, García permitting a potential foul-out to drop, Yerry De Los Santos throwing a would-be pickoff into heart area and Chisholm practically permitting an unearned run to rating before recovering from a booted floor ball.

New York Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton reacts in the dugout during the eighth inning of a sport against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. Jason Szenes for the NY Post

And there were typical offensive points, innings in which they were bulldozed by Cease combined in with a few backbreakers.

Like the first two innings, when the Yankees put a runner on third with one out and came away with zero runs.

In the first, it was Heliot Ramos and García who failed in the clutch. In the second, it was Chisholm and Wells.

They threatened again in the fifth, when Lombard and Wells walked.

But with one out, Jose Caballero laced a Cease fastball straight at shortstop Ernie Clement, who caught the line drive and threw behind Lombard for the inning-ending double play.

In the ninth against Louis Varland, Chisholm led off with a double to put the tying run on second and later stole third.

But Wells, Caballero and Trent Grisham then were retired in order, guaranteeing a day that began poorly ended poorly, too.