The Yankees offense beats up on Toronto as they maintain their one game lead

The New York Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays by the score of 11-4 on Friday night. The game took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada. Hiroki Kuroda started for the Yankees and he did a good job of battling. He didn’t have his best stuff but got the job done. The Yankees bullpen did ok and the offense was led by Russell Martin who had two hits and three RBI. Chad Jenkins started for the Jays and wasn’t very good, their bullpen wasn’t so good either. The Jays offense was led by Rajai Davis. 
Kuroda pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up ten hits and two runs with two walks and four strikeouts. He earned his 15^th win of the season, David Phelps pitched 1 2/3 innings with a hit and two runs with a walk and a strikeout and Dave Robertson pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout. Cody Eppley pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out one and Rafael Soriano pitched an inning walking one. Jenkins lost his third game of the season pitching 3 2/3 innings giving up four hits and three runs with three walks and two strikeouts, Brett Cecil pitched two innings giving up a hit and two runs with a couple of strikeouts and Jason Frasor didn’t record an out giving up three hits and two runs with a walk. Joel Carreno pitched one inning giving up two hits and and a run with a walk, Chad Beck pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run and Aaron Loup pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit. Bobby Korecky pitched one inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk.

Derek Jeter had a hit, Ichiro Suzuki had two hits and an RBI and Alex Rodriguez had a hit. Robinson Cano had two hits and an RBI, Swisher had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Curtis Granderson had a hit and drew a walk. Raul Ibanez had a hit and an RBI, Chris Dickerson drew a walk and Martin had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk. Eric Chavez had a hit, two RBI and drew two walks. Swisher, Granderson and Suzuki each hit a double. Martin and Chavez each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 5-15 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Suzuki had a stolen base, Martin was picked off.

Brett Lawrie had a hit and drew two walks, Colby Rasmus had a hit and an RBI and Edwin Encarnacion drew two walks. J.P. Arencebia had a hit, Adam Lind had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Yunel Escobar had a hit. Kelly Johnson had a hit, Davis had four hits and Anthony Gose had a hit and an RBI. Lawrie, Escobar, Gose, Davis and Johnson each hit a double, Rasmus and Lind each hit a homerun. The Blue Jays were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base. Escobar was picked off and Carreno committed an error.

The Yankees remain one game up on the Baltimore Orioles for first place in the AL East. There are five games left to play and this was the second game of four in this series. The teams have split the first two games and will play the third one on Saturday afternoon. The Yankees record is now 91-66 and the Jays record fell to 69-88. The Yankees magic number for a playoff spot is two and five for the division. The magic number is any combination of their wins and the other teams losses.