Cole Injured, Surging Blue Jays Power Past Yankees – CBS New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Semien homered once more, Alejandro Kirk went deep twice and the surging Toronto Blue Jays beat the skidding Yankees 5-1 on Tuesday night time after New York ace Gerrit Cole exited early with a hamstring damage.

Cole (14-7) was pulled within the fourth inning with left hamstring tightness after permitting a sacrifice fly to Reese McGuire that gave the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead. After the throw from heart fielder Aaron Decide deflected off his glove, Cole motioned to the dugout and was checked out by coach Tim Lentych.

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Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned Cole was not headed for an MRI and the right-hander mentioned it was too early to find out if he would miss his subsequent scheduled begin.

“I wish to ensure that I’m good if I’m good or if I want a number of further days, however I used to be sitting on the market for a few pitches weighing the pros and cons and I simply wasn’t fairly positive I used to be going to have the ability to get via the inning and get some therapy on it to get again out,” Cole mentioned. “So sadly, I simply needed to pull the plug.”

Cole allowed three runs, two earned, and 5 hits in 3 2/3 innings. After placing out 15 on Wednesday in opposition to the Angels, he threw 70 pitches as Toronto put collectively a number of lengthy at-bats in opposition to the star right-hander.

“He didn’t look totally different to me,” Blue Jays supervisor Charlie Montoyo mentioned. “You’ve acquired to provide our hitters credit score as a result of we have been having good at-bats in opposition to among the best pitchers in baseball.”

Semien prolonged his profession excessive together with his thirty eighth homer and seventh in opposition to the Yankees this 12 months when he linked off Albert Abreu to open the fifth for a 4-1 lead. It was the sixth homer in six video games for Semien, whose earlier profession greatest was 33 for Oakland in 2019.

Kirk went deep within the second off Cole and linked once more within the eighth as Toronto gained its sixth straight and for the ninth time in 10 video games.

The Blue Jays moved inside 2 1/2 video games of the Yankees for the primary AL wild card, and two again of Boston for the second. Toronto and Boston are tied within the loss column.

“Pitching, protection and hitting — we’re doing all of it proper now,” Montoyo mentioned.

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly within the fourth on an evening when slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had his career-high hitting streak stopped at 14 video games.

Steven Matz (11-7) allowed one run over six innings and matched his profession excessive for wins. He struck out six, walked none and withstood a number of lengthy outs to the warning monitor in his second win in New York this season.

“We’re having enjoyable, we’re enjoying good,” Matz mentioned. “You may form of sense it. We’re enjoying vital baseball in September and that’s what we wish to do.”

Anthony Rizzo hit an RBI single for New York, which dropped its fourth straight. The Yankees remained a half-game forward of rival Boston, which misplaced to Tampa Bay, for the primary AL wild card. New York misplaced for the eighth time in 10 video games since a 13-game successful streak Aug. 14-27.

The Yankees have been held with out an extra-base hit or a stroll for the second straight recreation. In line with the YES Community, that final occurred in June 1962.

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“We had some guys that hit the ball OK at this time in comparison with yesterday, however the backside line is we’ve acquired to be higher,” Boone mentioned. “We’ve acquired our guys now and if we’re going to be the workforce we hope to be, our offense has to hold that freight for us. So we’ve acquired to get it rolling.”

Joakim Soria acquired a double play to finish a scoreless seventh, Tim Mayza pitched the eighth and Jordan Romano completed up for the Blue Jays.

GALLO SITS

Slumping slugger Joey Gallo was rested by the Yankees after going 0 for 4 with 4 strikeouts Monday.

Gallo is 1 for 19 over his final 5 video games. The one hit was a tying, two-run homer within the eighth inning that broke an 0-for-17 slide Saturday in opposition to Baltimore.

“Hopefully only a day for him to form of catch his breath a bit and hopefully one thing he can actually profit from,” Boone mentioned.

Gallo is hitting .130 (16 for 123) with six homers and 13 RBIs in 35 video games since being acquired from Texas on July 29. He has struck out 61 occasions with the Yankees and 186 occasions general, 21 shy of his profession excessive set in 2018.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: DH George Springer (bruised left knee) was held out of the lineup and is day-to-day. He fouled a ball off his left knee within the eighth inning Monday, and was on the injured checklist Aug. 15-29 with a sprained left knee.

ROSTER MOVE

After the sport, the Yankees optioned RHP Brooks Kriske to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

UP NEXT

RHP Alek Manoah (5-2, 3.63 ERA) begins for Toronto in opposition to New York RHP Luis Gil (1-0, 0.00). Manoah allowed two hits over six scoreless innings in a memorable main league debut Could 27 at Yankee Stadium. Gil has tossed 15 2/3 scoreless innings in his first three begins.

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