Tanaka deals in shutout of Jays

TORONTO — Masahiro Tanaka turned in a masterful performance but still left Aroldis Chapman with some work to do.

Despite a good fight from Toronto’s blossoming rookie hitters, the hardthrowing closer was up to the task.

Tanaka and Chapman combined on a fourhitter, Brett Gardner had an RBI double, and New York beat the Blue Jays 10 Sunday to end a twogame skid.

Tanaka (86) allowed three hits while pitching into the ninth inning, walking none and striking out four. The righthander was pulled after Brandon Drury singled to begin the ninth.

“He was able, for the most part, to stay off the barrel all day long,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

Chapman came on to face pinchhitter Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who fell behind 02, worked back to a full count, hit a foul ball off the fifth deck and finally grounded into a double play to end the 13pitch encounter.

“That’s obviously, in a lot of ways, the ball game there,” Boone said. “In a very wellplayed, 10 game, you’ve got a young, rising, greatlooking hitter against the game’s dominant closer. It was a great match to watch those two guys go at it.”

Guerrero fouled off seven pitches before grounding out.

“It was a great atbat by him,” Chapman said through a translator. “He made me work.”

Some in the crowd of 27,790 rose for a standing ovation as Guerrero returned to the dugout.

“I’ve never seen somebody hit a doubleplay ball and get a standing ovation,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said.

Chapman gave up a single to Bo Bichette, then fanned Cavan Biggio to earn his ALleading 31st save in 36 opportunities.

“That was some really quality atbats going up against our guy there at the back end, who was dealing,” Boone said. “I think there was probably a little more energy than normal, based on how that inning unfolded. It was a good way to finish off a trip after a couple of losses.”

After the clubs combined for 37 runs and 13 homers over the first three games of the series, offense was at a premium in the finale. Toronto’s stretch of 15 straight games with a home run ended, as did New York’s ninegame streak of multihomer efforts. New York has scored at least a run in 200 consecutive games, the fourth longest streak in major league history.

Yankees AllStar Gleyber Torres returned and went 0 for 3 at shortstop after sitting out the past four games because of an unspecified core injury.

New York third baseman Gio Urshela bobbled Bichette’s chopper to third to begin the game but the Blue Jays rookie shortstop was credited with a base hit, snapping an 0for8 stretch.

Justin Smoak reached on DJ LeMahieu’s fielding error in the second but the Blue Jays didn’t have another baserunner until Smoak singled through the shift to begin the eighth. The hit ended a run of 17 consecutive outs.