Blue Jays get 2-run sac fly in win over Yankees
NEW YORK -- Ryan Goins drove in four runs, half on the first two-run sacrifice fly in Blue Jays history, during Toronto's 7-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Monday night.
Goins entered the game with four RBIs, and the shortstop knocked in at least four runs in a game for the third time in his career. He hit a two-run home run in the second inning and lifted a two-run sacrifice fly in the sixth off Luis Severino (2-2).
Chris Coghlan added a solo home run and Jose Bautista slugged a two-run shot for the Blue Jays (9-17), who won their season-high third in a row as they attempt to climb out of an early-season hole.
Aaron Judge had an RBI single for the Yankees (15-9), who lost for the fifth time in the past 19 games.
Toronto's Marco Estrada (1-1) allowed one run and seven hits in seven innings.
Severino gave up five runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. During a sixth-inning at-bat to Luke Maile, he grimaced and was briefly examined by a trainer but stayed in the game until allowing Coghlan's home run.
After Toronto stranded two in the first inning, Goins made it 2-0 when he sent a 3-1 fastball into the right field bleachers for a two-run homer.
The Yankees stranded two in the third but put together three straight singles and scored their first run when Judge lined Estrada's first pitch into right field for an RBI single. Estrada kept the Yankees to one run by getting Greg Bird to hit into an inning-ending double play.
Severino worked out of a jam in the fifth as he stranded runners at second and third. He struck out Jose Bautista on a breaking ball in the dirt and Kendrys Morales flied out to the warning track in left field.
Toronto made it 4-1 with a rare play.
Goins drove a fly ball to deep center field that Jacoby Ellsbury caught while landing face-first into the wall. Justin Smoak scored the first run, and Devon Travis scored from second when Ellsbury was unable to make a throw after struggling to regain his footing from the catch.
Two batters later, Coghlan drove a breaking ball into the right field seats to chase Severino. The Blue Jays extended the lead to 7-1 when Bautista drove 1-0 pitch from Luis Cessa over the left field wall.
NOTES: Blue Jays RHP Aaron Sanchez (right middle finger blister) was placed on the disabled list for the second time this season. Manager John Gibbons does not think it will be a long absence and said Sanchez could pitch in a rehab appearance in the Gulf Coast League this weekend. ... The Yankees optioned RHP Bryan Mitchell to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and recalled RHP Luis Cessa. ... Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier attended the game and sat four rows behind Toronto's dugout. ... The announced crowd of 25,566 was the smallest at the current Yankee Stadium.