TORONTO — Friday night was supposed to be all about the long awaited Yankees debut of Masahiro Tanaka.
The spotlight was on Tanaka, but in true Yankee fashion there was so much more to glean from the 7-3 victory witnessed by 48,197 inside the sold-out Rogers Centre.
Mark Teixeira left in the home second with a strained right hamstring. Manager Joe Girardi successfully challenged a call at first base in the third inning and, after the call wall was overturned in the Yankees' favor, it led to two runs.
Jacoby Ellsbury went 3-for-4, swiped two bases, scored three runs and made a sliding catch in left-center for the final out of the sixth. Yangervis Solarte doubled twice and drove in three runs.
Girardi challenged another call by umpire Dana DeMuth in the eighth that was upheld, denying Ellsbury a fourth hit.
Melky Cabrera hit Tanaka's third pitch in the big leagues over the center-field fence and the Blue Jays scored two more runs in the second on Jonathan Diaz's one-out single.
After pitching around Edwin Encarnacion's one-out double in the third, Tanaka retired eight straight batters until Encarnacion led off the sixth with a single off third baseman Solarte's glove that should have been ruled an error.
Encarnacion was erased when Tanaka fed Adam Lind a 6-5-3 double play grounder into the shift and Ellsbury robbed Dioner Navarro of a hit with a sliding catch.
Tanaka arrived from Japan with a reputation as a strike-thrower and certainly lived up to it Friday night when he didn't issue a walk in seven frames.
He allowed three runs (two earned), six hits and whiffed eight.
Carlos Beltran and Teixeira drove in first-inning runs against Dustin McGowan. Solarte doubled in two runs in the third and Brian McCann's soft single to left in the fourth plated Ellsbury.
Brett Gardner's one-out single scored Dean Anna in the eighth and hiked the Yankees' lead to 6-3.
With two outs in the eighth and the Yankees leading, 6-3, Girardi put Dellin Betances in the biggest spot of his brief big league career. Betances was summoned to face the right-handed hitting Jose Bautista, one of the most feared right-handed bats in baseball.
Having used regular setup man Shawn Kelley the previous two nights, Girardi tried Betances and watched him walk Bautista on five pitches. That brought the equally powerful Encarnacion and Betances' first pitch was out of the strike zone.
McCann went to the mound but that didn't help as Betances missed badly with a breaking ball. That brought pitching coach Larry Rothschild to the hill. Encarnacion took a strike then grounded out.
Solarte's RBI double in the eighth extended the lead to 7-3. In position to post his first big league save by getting three outs, Betances was lifted after walking Adam Lind on four pitches to start the ninth.
David Robertson entered in a non-save situation and recorded the final three outs.
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