TORONTO — The losing streak was at four games and tied the season's longest downer. The bats were dead in three of the four defeats, the defense was shaky and the bullpen looked as if it needed a vat of energy drinks, because starters other than Masahiro Tanaka were seemingly allergic to working into the late innings.
And while it didn't come easy — because nothing these days is for the Yankees — they snuck out of Rogers Centre with a much-needed 5-3 victory over the AL East-leading Blue Jays on Wednesday night in front of 34,710.
The victory pulled the Yankees to within 2 ½ games of Toronto, avoided the losing streak becoming the longest of what has been a very streaky season and didn't allow the Blue Jays to complete the sweep.
Mark Teixeira, by far the Yankees' most consistent hitter this season, swatted a two-run homer in their four-run fourth inning and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh that pushed the lead to 5-3. He leads the club with 14 homers and 39 RBIs.
Jacoby Ellsbury went 3-for-4.
Hiroki Kuroda (5-5) won for the first time since May 28. In 6 ¹/₃ innings, he gave up three runs and eight hits.
Not having pitched since June 18 because the situations didn't dictate it, David Robertson replaced Adam Warren with one out in the eighth and Dioner Navarro on first via a single off Warren.
Robertson whiffed Juan Francisco with a 84-mph breaking ball for the second out and struck out Colby Rasmus with an 85-mph model to keep the lead. Robertson then recorded the final three outs for his 18th save in 20 chances.
Because Joe Girardi used Dellin Betances for two innings and 45 pitches Tuesday night, the Yankees manager didn't have the pellet-throwing right-hander Wednesday. So with a runner on first and one out in the seventh, Girardi called for Shawn Kelley, and he gave up a hit to Jose Reyes and retired Melky Cabrera on a fly to right.
Girardi then went for lefty Matt Thornton to face the left-handed hitting Adam Lind. Anthony Gose swiped third and Reyes second to make it sticky for Thornton, but he killed the threat by getting Lind to hit a broken-bat dribbler to the mound.
Without a hit against lefty reliever Rob Rasmussen, the Yankees put runners on first and second to start the seventh when Brett Gardner walked and Derek Jeter got hit on the left foot.
Rasmussen wild pitched them to second and third with Ellsbury at the plate, and he walked on a 3-1 pitch. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons called for Sergio Santos to face the switch-hitting Teixeira, and his fly to center scored Gardner and upped the Yankees' lead to 5-3.
After scoring four runs in the third inning for their first lead since last Friday — when Carlos Beltran beat the Phillies with a three-run homer in the ninth — the Yankees had a chance to add runs in the fifth against Drew Hutchison, but didn't.
Jeter and Ellsbury put together consecutive one-out singles, but Teixeira flied deep to right-center before Beltran walked to load the bases for Ichiro Suzuki, whose bouncer to the right side stranded three.
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