Guerrero, streaking Jays drop sliding Yanks from top WC spot

Guerrero reached three times a night after his career-high 14-game hitting streak ended. Toronto won for the 10th time in 11 games.

Marcus Semien hit a two-run single during a three-run fourth. He scored the go-ahead run on Hernández’s hit off Clay Holmes (6-3), which came shortly before Boston secured a 2-1 win over AL East-leading Tampa Bay.

Jake Lamb added a sacrifice fly in the eighth.

Brett Gardner hit a tying, three-run homer in the fifth. It was New York’s first extra-base hit since Gary Sánchez’s two-run homer in the sixth inning of Sunday’s 8-7 loss to Baltimore.

Toronto rookie Alek Manoah allowed three runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Trevor Richards (6-2), who pitched for Tampa Bay and Milwaukee before joining Toronto, tossed 1 2/3 innings for the win.

Adam Cimber fanned Anthony Rizzo with two on to end the seventh to preserve a 4-3 lead and tossed a scoreless eighth. Jordan Romano worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his 16th save in 17 chances.

Rookie Luis Gil returned to New York’s rotation and allowed the first three runs of his career and one hit in 3 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked seven.

The 23-year-old righty made his major league debut last month and had not permitted a run in 15 2/3 innings over three starts until facing the surging Blue Jays.

EYES ON JETER

The big screen on the center field scoreboard showed Derek Jeter’s Hall of Fame speech. As the former Yankee captain spoke, Yankee players loosening up in the outfield stopped to watch the speech.

“I thought it was great,” manager Aaron Boone said. “I thought he touched on a little bit of everything, shared some really cool little stories, people that obviously impacted his career, getting to see his family out in the crowd was cool and getting to witness another Hall of Famer I got to play alongside of.”

During the game, the scoreboard played several notable highlights of Jeter’s 20-year career that ended in 2014 and several No. 2 jerseys were spotted in the stands.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: Manager Charlie Montoyo said DH George Springer (left knee contusion) is feeling better. He fouled a ball of his left knee in the eighth inning on Monday and was on the injured list Aug. 15-29 with a sprained left knee. … RHP Ross Stripling (strained left oblique) made a rehab start Tuesday for Triple-A Buffalo and could be start one the games in Saturday’s doubleheader at Baltimore.

Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (left hamstring tightness) was encouraged by his condition according to Boone. Cole exited his start Tuesday with two outs in the fourth inning. As of now, Cole is not getting an MRI. … RHPs Domingo Germán and Luis Severino threw bullpen sessions Tuesday that Boone said went well. Germán has been on the IL since Aug. 1 with right shoulder inflammation and could progress to facing live hitters next. Severino is recovering from a tight right shoulder sustained in his rehab from March 2020 Tommy John surgery.

UP NEXT:

RHP José Berríos (7-5, 3.48) starts for Toronto against RHP Nestor Cortes (2-2, 2.67) in Thursday’s series finale. Berríos is 3-2 with a 3.79 ERA in seven starts since being acquired from Minnesota on July 30.

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Larry Fleisher, The Associated Press

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Guerrero, streaking Jays drop sliding Yanks from top WC spot

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