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Sanchez wins fourth straight, Blue Jays beat Yankees 7-0

Published Jun. 1, 2016 11:11 p.m. ET

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TORONTO (AP) Aaron Sanchez pitched 6 2-3 innings to win his fourth straight decision, Edwin Encarnacion had two RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 7-0 on Wednesday night, completing a three-game sweep.

Darwin Barney reached base four times and Michael Saunders had two doubles as Toronto won its season-high fifth straight and improved to 7-2 against the Yankees this season. The Blue Jays have won 10 of 13 following a season-worst five-game losing streak.

Masahiro Tanaka (3-1) allowed two runs, one earned, and seven hits in six innings to lose for the first time in 11 starts. He came in as one of four undefeated pitchers with at least 10 starts.

New York has lost three straight and six of eight. The Yankees have scored five runs in their past four games.

The Blue Jays opened the scoring on Josh Donaldson's RBI single in the fifth. Toronto doubled its lead in the sixth when Saunders doubled, advanced on Jacoby Ellsbury's fielding error and scored on Russell Martin's double play groundout.

The Yankees had two baserunners in each of the second, third and fifth innings but came up empty each time.

Sanchez (5-1) left with two outs and runners at first and second in the seventh. Newly acquired Jason Grilli came on and threw an errant pickoff to second, advancing the runner, but escaped by getting Carlos Beltran to fly out.

Aaron Loup worked the eighth and Ryan Tepera finished for Toronto.

The Blue Jays scored five runs in a bat-around seventh against Kirby Yates and Nick Goody. Encarnacion and Justin Smoak each had two-run singles and Saunders added an RBI double.

Designated hitter Alex Rodriguez returned to New York's lineup after sitting out the previous two games. Batting sixth for the third time this season, he went 1 for 4 with a double.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Yankees: 2B Starlin Castro got the day off. Castro had played in 50 of New York's first 51 games.

UP NEXT

Yankees: RHP Michael Pineda (2-6, 6.92 ERA) starts a makeup game at Detroit on Thursday. It's Pineda's fourth straight road start. LHP Matt Boyd (0-2, 2.79) starts for the Tigers. The Yankees and Tigers were postponed by rain and snow on April 10.

Blue Jays: Toronto is off Thursday before opening a three-game series at Boston on Friday. RHP R.A. Dickey starts for the Blue Jays against Red Sox LHP David Price (7-1, 5.11). Dickey has won one of his past 10 starts and is 0-2 in three starts against Boston this season. He switches places with RHP Marcus Stroman, who was pushed back to Saturday.

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