Yankees 4, Blue Jays 1
CC Sabathia earned his major league-leading 14th win with eight sensational innings as the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 Saturday afternoon at the Rogers Centre.
Sabathia (14-4) saw his streak of consecutive scoreless innings end at 24 as the Blue Jays posted a run in the first. The burly lefthander was nearly perfect after that, limiting the high-powered Toronto offense to three hits while walking three and striking out eight.
Sabathia has allowed just two runs 39 2/3 innings spanning five starts.
Mariano Rivera allowed a pair of baserunners in the ninth, but worked out of the jam to earn his 23rd save.
The Yankees seized the lead with a pair of runs in the second off Jays lefty Ricky Romero (7-9). Andruw Jones evened the score with an RBI single, and Eduardo Nunez put the Yankees ahead for good with a run-scoring groundout.
Derek Jeter added two hits for New York, giving him 3,006 to tie Detroit Tigers great Al Kaline for 26th on the all-time list.
Yunel Escobar's run-scoring single provided the lone offense for Toronto, which saw its five-game winning streak end. Toronto had tallied 23 runs in the first two games of the series.