NY won its third in a row and sent the Blue Jays to their fourth loss in five games.
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The victory for NY brings the Yankees to 4.5 games out of first place, their smallest deficit since April 28.
With only six outs remaining – but Betances only available for three of them after the closer pitched the past two games – Girardi kept Warren in the game after he had already recorded five outs. “We’ve got to focus on tomorrow’s game and the next three weeks”. He did a good job of limiting his walks, only allowing one, and struck out five batters in his four innings of work. But then the Yankees turned a neat 3-6-1 double play against Justin Smoak to keep it at 2-1.
Jose Bautista had an RBI single and Edwin Encarnacion added a two-run base hit for Toronto.
Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (9-6, 4.58) has allowed eight earned runs in 12 innings over his last two starts. Austin’s two-run homer in the seventh was especially frustrating as he is New York’s No. 9 hitter and it came with two out. Franklin Gutierrez drove in four runs, including a solo home run in the second inning and finished a triple short of the cycle.
Jimenez (6-11) struck out six and walked one.
New York Yankees’ Chase Headley watches his two-run home run in front of Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin during the eighth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, in New York. The hard-throwing right-hander allowed just five hits, but two of them left the park, accounting for all three Yankee runs.
ANGELS 10, ATHLETICS 7: Kole Calhoun hit a solo home run in the second inning, Albert Pujols had a two-run double in the fourth and Los Angeles held off Oakland. Although he homered in his first two games August 13-14, he has not done much since and has 35 strikeouts to go along with a.169 average. It was just his second save since 2013. “They played great defence, (Chase) Headley down at third base robbed us a couple of times and Gardner, he’s been known to do that too”.
Kelly Johnson also went deep in New York’s 12th straight victory over Cincinnati. He delivered a quality start in each of the previous three, going 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA. The Reds put a runner on third with nobody out on two occasions, and Colon wiggled out of the jam each time.
The Yankees had lost five straight home series to Toronto before winning the first two games in this three-game set. Jays starter Aaron Sanchez gave up three runs over seven frames before Jason Grilli allowed four.
Greinke (12-5) imploded in his return to Dodger Stadium for the first time since spurning the team as a free agent last December.
Smoak was up next – in August 2015, he became the first Toronto player ever to hit a grand slam in the Bronx. Then Austin took a fastball the other way, into the bleachers in right-center for his second career homer.
CUBS 7, BREWERS 2: Major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks threw six strong innings and the Chicago pulled away for a victory over Milwaukee.
The shutout bid ended when pinch-hitter Chris Young homered off Brad Hand in the eighth. The Yankees entered the ninth inning exactly where they wanted to be, with a 7-4 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays and their formidable closer, Dellin Betances, on the mound.
In the middle of the eighth, the Blue Jays were winning by one run. It wasn’t until Tanaka left the game after 6.1 innings that the Jays broke through.
Scherzer (16-7) scattered seven hits and yielded two runs to win his fourth consecutive start.
Ryan Weber (1-1) lost his first start of the season for Atlanta. Sale held the Tigers to two runs and six hits in eight innings.
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Philadelphia’s Jerad Eickhoff (10-13) allowed the first two batters to score and then settled down to pitch six innings.
