Paxton wins 9th straight start as Yanks rout Jays
TORONTO >> James Paxton pitched five innings to win his ninth straight start, Brett Gardner homered twice and drove in five runs and the Yankees hit five homers in a 13-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.
Gleyber Torres and Luke Voit also homered for the Yankees, going back-to-back off right-hander Brock Stewart in the fifth, as the AL East leaders won for the 14th time in 19 games.
Torres connected one inning after slipping while trying to make a throw to first and appearing to hurt his right leg or knee. Torres was checked on the field and stayed in to hit his 37th homer before being replaced by Tyler Wade in the sixth.
DJ LeMahieu had four hits for New York, his AL-leading 58th multi-hit game of the season. The Yankees had 19 hits, matching their season high for a nineinning game.
New York failed to homer Friday, snapping a nine-game streak. The Yankees have 20 homers over their past seven games, and have hit multiple home runs in 14 of their past 19. They have an MLBbest 285 home runs this season, which is also a big league record for homers by any team in a year. Minnesota is second with 280.
Mike Ford hit the fifth and final home run Saturday, a tworun blast off Justin Shafer in New York’s four-run ninth.
Paxton (14-6) allowed one run on three hits, becoming the first Yankees pitcher since Mike Mussina to win nine consecutive starts. The left-hander’s 14 wins are also a career best.
Mussina won his final two starts of the 2002 season, then seven straight to begin 2003. The last Yankees pitcher to win nine
Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 5, 12 innings Oakland 14, Texas 9
Tampa Bay 11, L.A. Angels 4 Chicago White Sox 9, Seattle 7
Saturday’s games
N.Y. Yankees 13, Toronto 3 Minnesota 2, Cleveland 0, 1st game Baltimore at Detroit, 6:10 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m., 2nd game
Houston at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m. Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 9:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.
Sunday’s games
Boston (Porcello 12-12) at Philadelphia (Vargas 6-7), 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (TBD) at Toronto (Zeuch 0-0), 1:07 p.m.
Baltimore (Wojciechowski 2-8) at Detroit (Jackson 3-9), 1:10 p.m. Minnesota (Berrios 12-8) at Cleveland (Bieber 14-7), 1:10 p.m.
Houston (Miley 13-5) at Kansas City (Junis 9-13), 2:15 p.m.
Oakland (Manaea 1-0) at Texas (TBD), 3:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Yarbrough 11-3) at L.A. Angels (Sandoval 0-3), 4:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Nova 10-12) at Seattle (Sheffield 0-1), 4:10 p.m. Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Pittsburgh x-Los Angeles Arizona Giants San Diego Colorado
Friday’s games
straight starts in the same season was Ron Guidry, who won 11 in a row in 1979.
Gardner homered off righthander Jacob Waguespack to begin the fourth, then added a three-run blast off Stewart in the fifth. He has 25 homers, extending his career high. It was the 96 75 71 68 63 53 73 77 79 85 Chicago Cubs 17, Pittsburgh 8 Atlanta 5, Washington 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, N.Y. Mets 2 St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 0 Colorado 10, San Diego 8 .644 .507 .480 .463 .426 _ 20 1⁄2 24 1⁄2 27 32 1⁄2
Cincinnati 4, Arizona 3 Giants 1, Miami 0
Saturday’s games
Atlanta 10, Washington 1 Chicago Cubs 14, Pittsburgh 1 Boston at Philadelphia L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets Milwaukee at St. Louis Cincinnati at Arizona
San Diego at Colorado Miami at Giants
Sunday’s games
Boston (Porcello 12-12) at Philadelphia (Vargas 6-7), 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Fried 16-5) at Washington (Sanchez 8-8), 1:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Anderson 6-4) at St. Louis (Wacha 6-7), 2:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Williams 7-6) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 13-8), 2:20 p.m.
San Diego (Quantrill 6-7) at Colorado (Gonzalez 1-6), 3:10 p.m.
Miami (Hernandez 3-5) at Giants (Cueto 1-0), 4:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Bauer 10-12) at Arizona (Gallen 3-5), 4:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 13-3) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 11-7), 7:05 p.m.
R H BI BB SO
1 1 1 4 1 1 ninth multi-homer game of Gardner’s career and his second this season. He also hit two at Detroit Tuesday.
Gardner has 20 career home runs against Toronto, more than any other opponent.
The veteran outfielder also made a great play in center, leaping 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
Avg
.329 .272 .269
Torres ss Wade ss-lf Voit 1b b-Ford ph-1b Urshela 3b Gardner cf 1-Valera pr-2b Maybin lf-cf Higashioka c Estrada 2b-ss
Totals Toronto
Bichette ss a-Urena ph-ss Grichuk rf Alford rf Gurriel Jr; dh 2-Fisher pr-dh Guerrero Jr; 3b Hernandez lf Smoak 1b Drury 2b Jansen c Davis cf
Totals New York
a-flied out for Bichette in the 7th; b-homered for Voit in the 9th; 1-ran for Gardner in the 8th; 2-ran for Gurriel Jr; in the 8th.
Torres (18), Guerrero Jr, (17);
New York 10, Toronto 10; Gardner (25), Voit (21), Higashioka (5), Frazier (13), Gurriel Jr, (19), Drury (19), Urena (4);
E:
3 2 3 1 6 5 0 4 5 4
44 13 19 13 4 6 AB R H BIBBSO
1 2 3 2 3 1 5 4 4 4 3 3
35
2 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
3
1 0 2 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0
9 011 133 004
2 1 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2B:
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
3 —
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 2
9
into the scoreboard to catch a drive by Toronto’s Danny Jansen in the fifth. According to Statcast, Gardner ran 126 feet to make the play.
Waguespack (4-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings. He is 0-4 with an 8.40 ERA in his past four starts.
13 19 LOB:
.286 .243 .282 .238 .326 .248 .219 .279 .239 .262
Avg
.311 .255 .233 .250 .283 .158 .269 .221 .207 .222 .206 .155
1 HR:
Gardner (25), off Waguespack, Gardner (25), off Stewart, Torres (37), off Stewart, Voit (21), off Stewart, Ford (11), off Shafer; Gardner 5 (66), Voit 2 (61), Torres 2 (87), Estrada (12), Wade (9), Ford 2 (19), Bichette (19), Urena 2 (2); Judge (2); Bichette;
New York 4 (Estrada, Judge, Higashioka), Toronto 5 (Hernandez, Gurriel Jr., Jansen, Guerrero Jr.); New York 5 for 16, Toronto
2 for 12; Urshela, Wade, Jansen; Urshela, Wade;
Toronto 3 (Jansen, Drury, Jansen, Drury, Guerrero Jr., Drury, Drury, Alford, Smoak, Alford); Home, Ryan Additon, First, Manny Gonzalez, Second, Sam Holbrook, Third, Jim Wolf; 3:47; 26,308 (53,506).
CS: SF: left in scoring position: DP: RISP: Runners moved up: LIDP: Toronto RBIs: Umpires: 000010002_ 3
Paxton, W, 14-6 5 Gearrin 1 Loaisiga 2 Dull 1 3 2 1 3 1 0 0 2
Wguspck, L, 4-53 2⁄37 3 Stewart 2 5 6 Adam 1⁄3 0 0 Luciano 1 2 0 Romano 2⁄3 1 0 Shafer 11⁄3 4 4 1 0 0 2
3 2 4 73 4.70 6 1 2 57 6.27 0 1 0 7 3.94 0 0 0 11 6.28 0 0 0 11 5.23 4 0 0 36 3.79
Stewart 2-0, Adam 1-0, Shafer 1-0; Waguespack (Estrada), Paxton (Gurriel Jr.), Stewart (Torres).
Inherited runners-scored: HBP:
2 0 0 1
Runners T: 9 1 A:
3 101 3.88 1 19 5.59 2 29 4.56 3 32 19.2