Blue Jays have more home runs than strikeouts in ALDS

NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays aren’t just leaning into their own superpower in the American League Division Series, they’ve stolen the Yankees’.

With more home runs (eight) than strikeouts (seven) in the first two games of the ALDS, of course the Blue Jays are up 2-0, already putting the Yankees on the ropes ahead of a potential clinch game Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. They’re just the second team with more homers than strikeouts through two their first two postseason games, joining the 2005 White Sox (six homers, four strikeouts).

They’re winning by getting the best of both worlds. Power and strikeouts typically come hand-in-hand, the risk and reward balancing one another out. Just take the 2025 Yankees, who led Major League Baseball with 274 home runs this season but struck out 1,463 t