Canha, Cahill lift A’s in big matchup

OAKLAND, Calif. — Mark Canha homered and Matt Chapman hit an RBI double to back Trevor Cahill, leading the Athletics past the Yankees 6-3 on Monday in a matchup between two teams in the AL wild-card race.

The A’s jumped on CC Sabathia early and pulled within 31⁄ games of the Yankees for the first wild card.

Cahill (6-3) defeated the Yankees for the first time in seven career appearances, the only AL team he’d never beaten.

“I had some extra Adrenalin,” Cahill said. “They were tough. A lot of bad outings against those guys. ... We’re trying to catch the Astros and if that doesn’t work we want a playoff game here.”

The right-hander improved to 5-0 with a 1.09 ERA in nine home starts, striking out three to leave him one shy of 1,000 for his career. Cahill allowed four hits and three runs — two earned — in five innings.

Luke Voit hit a two-run homer for the Yankees.

The A’s have won six of the last eight meetings with the Yankees.

In some good news for the Yankees, slugger Aaron Judge took his first swings off a tee since breaking his right wrist July 26. It was a significant early step in what he hopes is a return to the field in a couple of weeks.

Judge took 25 dry swings in the center-field cage before taking another 25 off the tee at what he called 100 percent effort. He said he felt good enough in recent days and without pain that the decision was made he would begin hitting again.

“Just moving in the right direction. Definitely a big step,” Judge said. “I’m kind of on track with what we kind of wanted to accomplish.”

Judge could take live batting practice as soon as this weekend.