TORONTO — Shortstop Ryan Goins had a double and a home run to back a solid performance by starting pitcher Marco Estrada as the Toronto Blue Jays topped the New York Yankees 4-2 on Monday night.
Edwin Encarnacion had a double and two runs batted in for Toronto (27-26). Estrada (3-2) pitched eight scoreless innings, giving up three hits and striking out six. Aaron Loup started the ninth on the mound for the Blue Jays, but gave up a two-run homer, with Drew Storen coming on to close out the game and earning the save.
Estrada's lengthy outing was desperately needed by the Blue Jays who, according to manager John Gibbons, were "strapped" for relievers after he'd had to rely heavily on his bullpen in the previous week.
Brian McCann hit a towering two-run homer to dead centre field in the ninth inning for the Yankees (24-26). Ivan Nova (3-3) gave up four runs on eight hits, while striking out four over six-plus innings. He was replaced by Nick Goody. Richard Bleier also came out of the bullpen for New York.
Encarnacion gave the Blue Jays an early lead in the first, hitting a double to left-centre field to drive in Josh Donaldson from first base.
Encarnacion added to that lead in the third inning, driving in Goins with a groundout to short. Michael Saunders followed that up with a double to deep centre field to score Jose Bautista from second base and make it 3-0.
Goins led off the fifth inning with a solo shot over the left-field wall at Rogers Centre, his third home run of the season, to give the Blue Jays a 4-0 lead.
Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius made an impressive play to end the sixth inning. Darwin Barney's grounder took a big hop at the lip of the infield dirt, seemingly sailing over the charging Gregorius's head, but the New York infielder snapped the ball out of the air and fired it to first, easily getting the out.
Carlos Beltran earned a one-out walk in the ninth, with McCann coming to the plate next.
The Yankees catcher launched a 2-2 pitch deep over the head of Toronto centre-fielder Kevin Pillar, with the ball bouncing back off the stadium's facade and back on to the turf. Loup was pulled after the homer, with Mark Teixeira hitting a double to deep right field off of Storen.
Storen induced a pop fly by Starlin Castro then struck out Chase Headley to end the game.
Notes: Right-handed pitcher Ryan Tepera was recalled by Toronto from its triple-A affiliate in Buffalo, N.Y., earlier in the day. Infielder Jimmy Paredes was designated for assignment to make space for Tepera. ... The 1984 Canadian Olympic baseball team was in attendance. They were the first team to represent Canada in baseball at the Games. ... Announced attendance was 32,921.
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