BLUE JAYS

TORONTO — The Yankees will have to wait at least one more day to clinch a playoff spot.

Masahiro Tanaka served up eight runs and three more homers in his latest debacle of an outing, and got little offensive support in an 8-1 loss to the Blue Jays on Friday at Rogers Centre.

Despite the defeat, the Yankees magic number to clinch a playoff berth is down to one because the Rangers and Angels both lost.

The Yankees now trail the Red Sox, who beat the Reds, by four games in the AL East with nine games remaining.

Aaron Judge blasted a 469-foot homer into the second deck in left in the first inning — his 46th of the year — to put the Bombers on top.

But Tanaka (5.2 innings pitched, six hits, seven earned runs) allowed homers to Teoscar Hernandez (solo shot), Russell Martin (two-run shot, below) and Ryan Goins (grand slam), and the Yankees mustered just three hits against Marco Estrada over seven innings. Tanaka is 12-12 with an ugly 4.94 ERA. Judge finished 2-for-2 with a homer, a double and two walks. In 19 September games, he’s hitting .286 with nine homers, 20 RBI and 21 runs scored.