The Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees meet at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, August 23, 2026. First pitch is scheduled for 1:35 p.m. ET. Here’s who’s starting, how both teams are sitting in the standings, and where to catch the game.
| Matchup | Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees |
| League | MLB |
| Date | August 23, 2026 |
| First Pitch | 1:35 p.m. ET · 11:35 a.m. Mexico City · 1:35 p.m. Caracas / Santo Domingo |
| Venue | Yankee Stadium |
Where to Watch
🇺🇸 United States
- YES Network — Yankees local broadcast; stream on the Gotham Sports App
- Sportsnet — Blue Jays local broadcast; stream on Sportsnet+
- ESPN Deportes — Spanish-language broadcast (ESPN’s 30-game linear package)
- Telemundo / Universo / FOX Deportes — Additional Spanish-language options depending on schedule
- Peacock — Sunday Night Baseball in Spanish
🇲🇽 Mexico (11:35 a.m. local)
- Canal 5 — Up to 55 regular-season games; part of the 2026–2028 deal
- NU9VE (Canal 9) — Sunday game of the week
- ESPN / Disney+ — ~6 games per week; Disney+ adds 6 more plus ESPN simulcast
- TUDN / Canal FOX — 5-game weekly package (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and two Saturdays)
🇻🇪 Venezuela (1:35 p.m. local)
- Televén — Free over-the-air, mainly weekends; free streaming on their mobile app
- 1BASEBALL — 24-hour baseball channel, up to 3 games per day; available on Simple, Inter and NetUno GO
- ByM Sport — Six days a week via Inter and Simple
- IVC — Tuesday through Sunday
- ESPN / Disney+ — Live and replay
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic (1:35 p.m. local)
- Teleantillas Canal 10 — Free; 7 games per week, one per day, for the seventh straight year. Covers Opening Day through the full World Series, including the Futures Game, Home Run Derby, All-Star Game and all of the postseason
- ESPN / 1BASEBALL — Via Altice
- FOX / FS1 / FS2 / FOX Deportes
- teleantillas.com.do — Free stream
- MLB.TV
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico (1:35 p.m. local)
- WAPA Deportes — Free; regular season (typically Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays). Exclusive island broadcast of the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby
- MLB.TV
A quick note on MLB.TV: it remains an out-of-market product. Twenty-two of 30 clubs offer a separate local in-market subscription inside the MLB app (~$19.99/month or ~$99.99/season) that is blackout-free for local games. Games exclusive to national streaming partners (Netflix, Peacock, Apple TV, FOX, ESPN) are not included in MLB.TV — that’s not a blackout, they simply aren’t part of the package. No public blackout map exists for Latin American countries.
How Both Teams Are Sitting
- New York Yankees: 73-56 (.566)
- Toronto Blue Jays: 64-67 (.489)
New York holds a comfortable edge in the standings and will be looking to keep building toward divisional dominance. Toronto, sitting nine games back, needs wins to keep any playoff hopes alive.
Starting Pitchers
Toronto — José Soriano 🇩🇴
Right-hander from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Season line: 10-6, 3.23 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 136 strikeouts in 139.1 innings.
New York — Carlos Rodón
Left-hander. Season line: 4-2, 3.22 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 56 strikeouts in 50.1 innings.
Two starters separated by a single hundredth of a run in ERA — Soriano at 3.23, Rodón at 3.22. Both are pitching well, and a low-scoring afternoon at Yankee Stadium feels like a real possibility.
This article will be updated after the final out with the result, key plays and a video recap.
