Exhausted Yankees range shows worries over additional sleeve loss

TORONTO – The three destructive right-wingers were not on Friday night, so the Yankees do not have enough firepower to get closer to their first title in the AL East in seven years.

Edwin Encarnacion and Gary Sanchez are injured in the oblique and groin respectively. Aaron Boone chose to sit Aaron Judge against the former left-mets prospect, Anthony Kay, after the right-field player played at both ends of the double play on Thursday when he crashed against an outside wall.

While the match against the Blue Jays was hanging in a twelfth inning, Boone used the judge to hit for Tyler Wade, but he pulled out.

In the bottom of the 12th, southpaw Tyler Lyons, who made his second round of relief, gave up his lead to Bo Bichette, who gave the Blue Jays a 6-5 victory, which was seen by 23,915 people.

Lyons had left the Yankees' header to start the 11th day and worked in a clean sleeve.

The defeat kept the magic number of the Yankees above second place in the AL East Rays five games pending the outcome of the Rays-Angels game in Anaheim, California on Friday night.

After Luis Cessa escaped a jam at the end of the ninth inning, Didi Gregorius opened the 10th when left-handed Tim Mayza threw a full throw well behind Gregorius and knelt while keeping his left arm on the mound. Mayza left the match and was replaced by Ryan Tepera with Gregorius first. Third-baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. lined up Cameron Maybin's scorer and forced Gregorius to second. Maybin was then surprised to steal second place and Tepera retired retired Brett Gardner on a court on the right. The second run of Cessa, the 10th, went without stress.

With a goal late in the ninth, Cessa gave a single to Bichette and watched Cavan Biggio glance at the glove of second baseman Gleyber Torres for what was considered a single, but could easily have been A double game. With runners at the corners, Cessa prompted the heavy-legged warrior to engage in a double 6-4-3 game that sent the game to extra innings.

Masahiro Tanaka was not close to the pitcher who bleached the Blue Jays for eight innings during a 1-0 Yankees win at the Rogers Center on August 11, or the guy who has won five of his last six starts against the Jays returning to late in the 2017 season.

Tanaka allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings and was replaced by Tommy Kahnle early in the sixth inning, with the Yankees holding a 5-4 lead.

Kahnle yielded a single in one to Teoscar Hernandez and watched a line player Billy McKinney find the glove of DJ LeMahieu that the first baseman turned into a double play ending in touch of first base.

Adam Ottavino added intrigue to seventh place by yielding a single in front of number 9 batter, Richard Urena, and walking Bichette. Biggio forced Bichette into second place for the first round. With runners at the corners, Ottavino was called for a foul that scored Urena and tied the score, 5-5. This was Ottavino's seventh stop.

With two outs and Biggio in second place, switch hitman Justin Smoak was intentional to allow Ottavino to face Randal Grichuk, who beat the ball by breaking the ball for the final.