The Yankees play sloppy, lose game and series to the Toronto Blue Jays

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays by the score of 8-5 on Wednesday afternoon. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx,New York. CC Sabathia started for the Yankees and wasn’t great although he didn’t get much help from his defense. Curtis Granderson led the Yankees offense. J.A. Happ started for the Blue Jays and didn’t pitch that well, the Jays bullpen was pretty good. Yunel Escobar led the Jays offense. 
Sabathia pitched seven innings giving up nine hits and five runs with only two of them being earned. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out eight and suffered his fourth loss, the first since June. Derek Lowe didn’t record an out and gave up two hits and a run, Boone Logan struck out the only batter that he faced and Cody Eppley pitched an inning giving up two runs, one of them was earned. Eppley walked a batter, Clay Rapada walked the only batter that he faced and Joba Chamberlain pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and striking out one. Happ pitched five innings giving up four runs and five walks with six strikeouts. Happ won his 10^th game of the season, Delabar pitched 12/3 innings giving up two hits and striking out three, Loup pitched 1/3 of an inning retiring the only batter that he faced and Lyon pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout. Casey Janssen pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. Janssen picked up his 17^th save of the season.

Derek Jeter had a hit and drew a walk, Nick Swisher drew two walks and Robinson Cano had a hit. Andruw Jones had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Curtis Granderson had a hit and three RBI and Raul Ibanez had a hit. Jayson Nix had a hit and drew a walk, Russell Martin had a hit and an RBI and Ichiro Suzuki had a hit. Granderson, Suzuki, Nix, Cano, Ibanez and Martin each hit a double. The Yankees were 3-17 with runners in scoring position and they left eight men on base. Jeter committed an error, Nix and Chavez also.

Rajai Davis had a hit, Edwin Encarnacion had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Adam Lind had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk. Escobar had four hits and five RBI, Kelly Johnson had two hits and Jeff Mathis had a hit and an RBI. Hechavarria had a hit. Escobar hit three doubles and hit a homerun. The Jays were 6-14 with runners in scoring position and they left nine men on base.

In the first Jones hit an RBI single and Granderson grounded out scoring a run. It was 2-0 Yankees, the Blue Jays got on the board in the third on a Encarnacion RBI single and Lind RBI single. The Jays took a 3-2 lead on a Escobar RBI double. In the third Granderson hit a two run double giving the Yankees a 4-3 lead. Escobar hit a two run homerun in the sixth to give the Jays a 5-4 lead. The Jays would expand their lead to 6-4 on a sacrifice bunt by Mathis in the eighth inning. Martin hit an RBI double in the eighth to make it a 6-5 game. Escobar hit a two run double in the ninth to make it 8-5 and that would be the final score.

The Yankees lost two out of three in the series. The Yankees record fell to 75-55 and the Jays record improved to 58-71. The Yankees will have an off day on Thursday and then start a three game weekend home series with the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees continue to hold a 3 ½ game lead on them for first place in the AL East.