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TORONTO (AP) -- Even with David Wells sidelined, the New York
Yankees couldn't do much against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Steve Trachsel took a two-hitter into the eighth inning and
Toronto sent the Yankees to their fifth loss in six games, setting
a season high for runs in a 16-3 rout Tuesday night.
|  | | Brad Fullmer, right, congratulates Tony Batista for his two-run homer in the seventh inning. |
"We played terrible in every facet of the game," Derek Jeter
said. "We are in a situation where we're kind of coasting, and
when you do that, everyone wants to beat you up."
New York, which got just one hit Monday night in a 2-0 loss to
Cleveland's Bartolo Colon, managed just four against Toronto. The
Yankees have been outscored 50-16 in their last six games, allowing
10 or more runs three times while scoring more than three runs just
twice.
"We were embarrassed by Cleveland, so we wanted to come in here
and make a statement, but we were embarrassed tonight," said Andy
Pettitte (18-8), who gave up seven runs -- five earned -- and eight
hits in five-plus innings.
The Yankees, whose magic number for clinching the AL East
remained at eight, saw their AL East lead cut to six games over
second-place Boston and 6½ over the Blue Jays.
"When you build a lead, there is kind of a letdown, but you
can't let that happen," Pettitte said.
Toronto is three games behind Oakland, the AL wild card leader,
but also trails Cleveland by 2½ games and Boston by a half-game.
Dave Martinez went 3-for-6 with three RBI for the Blue Jays,
who had 19 hits -- the most against the Yankees this season -- in
pounding Pettitte, Ted Lilly, Randy Choate and Craig Dingman.
"They were swinging the bats real well, and we were throwing it
down the middle of the plate," New York manager Joe Torre said.
Carlos Delgado, Brad Fullmer and Darrin Fletcher also had three
hits each, and Delgado raised his RBI total to a team-record 135.
"Pettitte didn't have his best control tonight and we made him
pay," Delgado said.
Trachsel (8-13) started because Wells, who loves to pitch
against his former team, was pushed back to Thursday because of
gout in his right big toe.
Pitching on three days' rest, Trachsel allowed three runs and
four hits in 7 1/3 innings to win for just the second time in seven
decisions since beating Toronto for Tampa Bay on June 27.
"He pitched a nice game for them," Pettitte said. "He threw
strikes and worked quick."
Pettitte, who probably has two more starts in his effort to
reach 20 wins, lost for just the second time in 12 starts.
"I just stunk," he said. "My command wasn't there. We played
flat."
Yankees defensive mistakes and a wild pitch led to four runs,
two of them unearned.
First baseman Tino Martinez dropped a first-inning throw on Alex Gonzalez's grounder for an error, left fielder Luis Polonia
misplayed Delgado's first-inning fly ball into an RBI single, third
baseman Scott Brosius misplayed Delgado's fifth-inning grounder for
an error, and reliever Jason Grimsley threw a run-scoring wild
pitch in the sixth.
"It was really ugly," Torre said. "You're sorry that you play
nine innings when you play a game like that."
Delgado's first-inning single -- a ball that dropped in front of
Polonia -- put Toronto ahead.
Glenallen Hill's homer tied the score in the second, but
Martinez's two-run single gave Toronto a 3-1 lead in the third.
David Justice homered for the Yankees in the fourth, but Toronto
then pulled away.
Martinez hit an RBI grounder in a two-run fifth that also
included a run-scoring error by Brosius. Toronto made it 7-2 in the
sixth on Fletcher's RBI single and Grimsley's wild pitch.
Tony Batista hit a two-run homer in the seventh off Ted Lilly,
and Toronto added runs on Jose Cruz Jr.'s RBI double and Craig
Grebeck's RBI single.
Polonia hit an RBI double in the eighth, and Toronto added five
runs in the bottom half on Delgado's RBI double off Choate, and
consecutive run-scoring singles by Fullmer, Cruz, Fletcher and
Craig Grebeck off Dingman.
Game notes
Delgado broke the previous team RBI record set by George
Bell in 1987 and matched by Delgado last year. ... Pettitte dropped
to 7-2 in SkyDome. ... Yankees RF Paul O'Neill was out of the
lineup again because of a right hip pointer, and Torre does
not expect him to start in the two remaining games in Toronto.
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Oakland 7
Baltimore 4
Oakland 0
Baltimore 0
(2nd game)
Boston 7
Cleveland 4
Chi. White Sox 6
Detroit 2
Toronto 16
NY Yankees 3
Seattle 5
Tampa Bay 2
Kansas City 5
Anaheim 1
Minnesota 15
Texas 7
Florida 3
Montreal 1
Pittsburgh 12
Philadelphia 8
Atlanta 12
NY Mets 4
Milwaukee 9
Chicago Cubs 8
Houston 8
St. Louis 6
San Diego 7
Colorado 2
Los Angeles 1
Arizona 0
San Francisco 7
Cincinnati 3
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