They didn’t provide the requisite support for CC Sabathia, whose seven strong innings were wasted in a 3-1 loss to the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. Happ yielded one run over six frames versus the Yankees on April 13 to improve to 4-2 with a 4.50 ERA against them.Sabathia showed no ill effects from a groin injury in his return from the disabled list, striking out a season-high eight while allowing one run and three hits over six innings in an 8-3 win at Oakland on Saturday.
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Happ (6-2) allowed 1 run and 3 hits in 7 innings with 5 strikeouts and 3 walks. Headley had been swinging a hot stick prior to a pair of oh-fers in his last two games, but the 32-year-old got on base three times against Estrada and the Blue Jays. With one out in the third, Travis ripped a hard one-hopper to the backhand side of shortstop Didi Gregorius.
Rodriguez, who batted fifth, is 0 for 14 in his career against Happ. Veteran left hander CC Sabathia shoots for his third consecutive victory when he toes the rubber versus Toronto. I just tried to fight it and put it in play and thankfully, it found a hole.
Pinch-hitter Austin Romine homered on the first pitch from Blue Jays reliever Chad Girodo in the ninth.
“Their guy was a little bit better than me today”, Sabathia said.
Betances tossed a scoreless eighth, but Aroldis Chapman gave up a run on three singles as Toronto added some insurance in the top of the ninth.
Starlin Castro supplied the only Yankees run in the first inning with an opposite field blast off of J.A. Happ.
Saunders and Martin became the first Canadian teammates in major league history to homer in the same inning, the Blue Jays said. The only Toronto baserunner in that sequence was Michael Saunders, who was hit by a Sabathia pitch with two out in the sixth.
“We’ve been missing that for a while”, manager John Gibbons said of the clutch hitting with runners in scoring position. Sabathia got No. 9 hitter Darwin Barney, but a single by Jose Bautista and a walk to Josh Donaldson loaded the bases. He also struck out for the second out in the ninth when Roberto Osuna recorded his 10th save.
Trailing by a run in the eighth, pinch-hitter Jacoby Ellsbury reached on an infield single and then moved to second on Brett Gardner’s groundout.
“After the third inning, I felt a lot better”. Carlos Beltran went back to rightfield and struck out in each of his four at-bats. Girardi said not to read anything into Beltran’s struggle at the plate while playing in the field, suggesting it was just a regular offensive slump. Washington trailed 1-0 in the sixth inning before Harper ended a 4-for-33 skid with a shot into the upper deck.
Blue Jays: SS Troy Tulowitzki sat out with a sore right quadriceps that caused him to exit Tuesday night’s game in the seventh inning. They placed LHP Chasen Shreve (shoulder) on the 15-day disabled list, recalled LHP Richard Bleier from Triple-A Scranton Wilkes/Barre and optioned IF/OF Rob Refsnyder there.
The Yankees (22-24) left for a 10-game road trip – including nine games against the Rays, Jays and Orioles as well as a makeup game in Detroit – lamenting a blown opportunity.
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The Yankees winning streak came to a grinding halt against the Blue Jays as they fell 8-4 against their division rivals Wednesday night.
