Yankees blast Blue Jays
New York hits 5 homers in fourth inning, hits six overall, 19 in the series
The Yankees tied a major league record with five home runs in an inning and hit six overall in a 10-7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night that extended their winning streak to eight.
New York set a major league record for most home runs in a three-game span with 19 and became the first team with six or more home runs in three straight games. The Yankees (29-21) outscored Toronto 43-15 over the three games and outhit the Blue Jays 44-28, opening a 21/2-game lead over Toronto for second place and closing within one game of Minnesota (31-21) for a firstround playoff series at home.
Brett Gardner, DJ Lemehieu and Luke Voit homered on consecutive pitches in the fourth inning from Chase Anderson (02). Voit’s home run was his major league-leading 20th.
Aaron Hicks struck out, and Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres followed with home runs that gave the Yankees a 9-2 lead and chased Anderson. The Yankees hit five homers in an inning for the first time, the seventh big league team to achieve the feat.
The Yankees hit 2,005 feet of home runs in the inning, according to Statcast, 2,377 in the game and 7,496 in the series — more than 1.4 miles
Gary Sanchez, slumping for most of the season, added a seventh-inning homer off T. J. Zeuch for a 10-3 lead and had his first multihit game this year.
After losing 15 of 20 games and nearly dropping out of the AL’S eight playoff spots, the Yankees have outscored their opponents 71-20 over their winning streak.
Masahiro Tanaka (3-2) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out five.
Toronto closed in the ninth against Jonathan Holder on Danny Jansen’s run-scoring single and Cavan Biggio’s basesloaded walk. Aroldis Chapman relieved with the bases loaded and gave up a two-run single to Bo Bichette, then struck out Randal Grichuk and Teoscar Hernandez for his third save. Chapman threw fastballs on all 12 pitches, ending the game was a 101 mph pitch that Hernandez missed.
Anderson gave up seven runs and eight hits in 22/3 innings.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. was 3-for-3 with two homers off Tanaka and added an infield single in the ninth. He is 11-for-20 with three homers and five RBIS against the Yankees this season.
Tanaka has thrown at least five innings in each of his past five starts.
Baker Mayfield threw two touchdown passes, Nick Chubb ran for two scores and 124 yards and the Cleveland Browns gave coach Kevin Stefanski his first NFL victory Thursday night by beating the Cincinnati Bengals 35-30 on the NFL’S 100th birthday.
Mayfield connected with Odell Beckham Jr. on a 43-yard scoring pass in the first half, and the Browns (1-1) rebounded from an atrocious performance last week in Baltimore, where they were roughed up 38-6 by the Ravens and looked mostly inept in Stefanski’s debut.
Things went much more smoothly against the Bengals (0-2) and No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow, who threw three TD passes and showed incredible poise in just his second game.
Burrow’s third TD pass — a 9-yarder to Tyler Boyd with 43 seconds left — pulled the Bengals within five, but the Browns recovered the ensuing onside kick and ran out the clock.
Mayfield made it a priority to get the ball early to Beckham, who had only three catches for 22 yards in the opener. Beckham finished with four catches for 74 yards.
Mayfield completed 16for-23 for 219 yards and one interception.
Kareem Hunt had a TD catch, ran for a score and rushed for 86 yards for Cleveland.
Burrow finished 37-for-61 for 316 yards. He was sacked three times.
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