Blue Jays stumble, let Yankees escape in 10th
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Late comebacks, close wins. The New York Yankees are beginning to resemble the team everyone became familiar with for the past decade.
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The New York Yankees failed to clinch  the fourth and final American League playoff spot after blowing  a 5-0 lead to lose 7-6 to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 10  innings on Tuesday.
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Derek Jeter, Hideki Matsui, and Bernie Williams each homered and the New York Yankees held on for an 8-7 victory over the Blue Jays last night in Toronto. Esteban Loaiza failed to make it out of the fifth inning in another poor start since being acquired from the Chicago White Sox in a July 31 trade for Jose Contreras.
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Starter Kei Igawa ran into early trouble against the Athletics while Oakland starter Chad Gaudin baffled the Yankees, who have now lost 8 of their last 10 games.
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It's gotten so bad for the New York Yankees that opponents are stealing home on them. Aaron Hill slid in safely ahead of Andy Pettitte's throw in the seventh and Alex Rios had a go-ahead sacrifice fly to help the Toronto Blue Jays beat New York 3-2 Tuesday night.
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The Toronto Blue Jays rallied for three seventh-inning runs off Chien-Ming Wang and ended the New York Yankees' five-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory in American League play on Thursday.
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The Yankees were the contender in crisis 10 days ago. Their underachieving rotation had allowed their lead in the AL East to slip to 2-1/2 games and Kevin Brown appeared to put the
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The Toronto Blue Jays are finished for the season with the Boston Red Sox, but there was no chance for a sigh of relief after losing the season series 5-14.
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Alex Rodriguez helped the New York Yankees end their five-game losing streak with his bat &#151; and his mouth, apparently. Rodriguez appeared to distract Toronto third baseman Howie Clark on a key popup late in the game, touching off arguments all over the field, and the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10-5 Wednesday night.
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A 50-minute pre-game meeting proved to be nothing but talk for the Yankees, who fell meekly to the Toronto Blue Jays Monday night, their fourth loss in a row and 12th in 17 games.
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Carlos Delgado homered in Toronto's five-run seventh inning and the Blue Jays ended a five-game losing skid with a 6-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday after a power outage delayed the start for about an hour.
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Another year is over, and another chance is gone. The Yankees shuffled meekly from the postseason stage Saturday, falling to the Detroit Tigers in Game 4 of their American League division series.
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The confluence of events screamed letdown: a sparse crowd of 10,732 at Yankee Stadium for a rescheduled game, after a weekend of packed houses; the Blue Jays, a bottom-feeder with a lineup
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The Yankees missed out on a golden opportunity to put some more distance between themselves and the second-place Red Sox on Monday, falling 17-8 to the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
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The Boston Red Sox saw their AL East lead cut to 1 1/2 games &#151; their smallest edge since late April &#151; when the Toronto Blue Jays broke through against Clay Buchholz and Jonathan Papelbon for a 6-1 victory Wednesday night.
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With the chance to clinch a playoff berth within their grasp, the New York Yankees let it slip away &#151; at least for a day.
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Whatever Alex Rodriguez said, it sure didn't go over well with the Blue Jays. It did, however, help the New York Yankees snap a five-game losing streak. Rodriguez distracted Toronto third baseman Howie Clark by shouting at him on a key popup in the ninth inning, touching off arguments all over the field, and the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10-5 Wednesday night.