TORONTO – A three-run home run from Carlos Beltran silenced a sellout crowd at Rogers Centre and made the Toronto Blue Jays’ winning streak and brief stay in first place come to an abrupt end.
David Price got into trouble in the eighth inning, and reliever Aaron Sanchez gave up the pinch-hit blast as the Blue Jays lost to the Yankees 4-3 Friday night, snapping their streak at 11.
The Blue Jays fell a half-game back in the American League East after leading the division since Wednesday night.
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Price allowed at least one base runner in each of his first seven innings of work and needed 100 pitches to get through it. But manager John Gibbons opted to let the ace lefty start the eighth inning.
That decision proved to be ill-advised when Price allowed singles to Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann and then an RBI double to Chase Headley. When his night ended at 112 pitches, Sanchez served up a dead-meat fastball to Beltran, who drilled the ball over the fence in right-centre to give the Yankees the lead.
Price, who shut out New York on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, wasn’t at his sharpest in allowing 11 hits. But he struck out six and kept the Yankees off the board until the eighth.
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