Jays shut out silent Yankees

The New York Yankees’ offense has disappeared, and their playoffs chances have pretty much vanished, too.

Jose Bautista hit a threerun homer off Tyler Clippard in the eighth inning, and the Blue Jays beat the Yankees 3-0 yesterday in Toronto.

New York has been shut out in three straight games for the first time since July 27-28, 1975. The Yankees, who have lost 10-of-13 following a seven-game winning streak, dropped 41⁄ games back for the AL’s second wild card with eight games left and likely will miss the playoffs for the third time in four years.

Toronto, the AL wild card leader, struck late. Josh Donaldson singled with two outs in the eighth off Clippard (3-5), advanced on a wild pitch, and Edwin Encarnacion walked. Clippard fell behind 2-0 in the count and Bautista sent a fastball over the left-field wall, delighting the crowd of 47,828. White Sox 8, Indians 1 — Cleveland blew some early scoring chances against Jose Quintana and lost to visiting Chicago, keeping the Tribe, whose magic number is 2, from getting closer to an AL Central title.

Royals 7, Tigers 4 — Paulo Orlando hit a tying, two-run double and Eric Hosmer followed with a three-run homer against Francisco Rodriguez, capping a ninthinning comeback that led visiting Kansas City over Detroit. Angels 10, Astros 4 — Kole Calhoun had three hits and two RBI, and visiting Los Angeles scored nine runs in the final two innings to rally for the second straight game in a victory over Houston. Rangers 5, Athletics 0 — The lone veteran in the lineup a day after Texas won another AL West title, Elvis Andrus hit a pair of two-run homers in a shutout of host Oakland. Twins 3, Mariners 2 — Miguel Sano hit a tiebreaking homer in the bottom of the fourth inning and Tyler Duffey (9-11) pitched seven strong innings for his best start in more than a month as Minnesota beat Seattle in Minneapolis.