Yankees 7, Blue Jays 3: Jays' Reyes Ties Record For Winless Starts

Wednesday afternoon was a milestone day at Yankee Stadium. A good one for a New York Yankees pitcher, and one a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher would rather not be associated with as the Yankees won, 7-3.

Yankee closer Mariano Rivera worked a scoreless ninth inning, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to make 1,000 appearances for the same team. He is the 15th pitcher ever to pitch in at least 1,000 games.

Toronto pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes reached a mileston of a much less desirable sort. Reyes (0-4) started and took the loss for the Blue Jays, tying Matt Keough's major-league record of 28 winless starts. Keough set the mark for Oakland from September 6, 1978-August 8, 1979. Reyes has not won a game since June, 2008 when he was with Atlanta. He is now 0-13 in 31 appearance, 28 of them starts. Thursday, Reyes surrendered five runs in three innings.

For the Yankees, Andruw Jones hit a pair of two-run homers and Mark Teixeira added a two-run shot, as the Yankees took two of from the Blue Jays. Curtis Granderson doubled twice, drove in a run and scored one for the Yankees, who have won seven of their last nine games.

Freddy Garcia (3-4) threw 6 1/3 innings, yielding three runs on eight hits and struck out four without issuing a walk. The veteran right- hander had lost two straight and four of his previous five starts coming in.

The Yankees now head to the West Coast for a nine-game road trip. They will play three games each against the Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Jo Jo Reyes Of Blue Jays Ties Record For Pitching Futility

Jo Jo Reyes of the Toronto Blue Jays tied a record today that no big-league pitcher wants to be associated with. Starting against the New York Yankees Thursday afternoon, Reyes tied Matt Keough’s record of 28 consecutive starts without a victory.

Reyes left today’s game after three innings, losing 5-0. He surrendered a pair of home runs, one to Andruw Jones and one to Mark Teixeira.

Reyes, a left-hander, hasn’t won a game since June of 2008 when he was pitching for the Braves, going 0-12 with a 6.41 ERA in 30 appearances — 27 starts — since.

The Yankees lead today’s game 5-0 in the fifth inning. Veteran right-hander Freddy Garcia is pitching for New York.

Curtis Granderson doubled in the Yankees’ first run in the first inning. Jones and Teixeira later added two-run home runs.

The Yankees began the day a half-game in front of Boston in the American League East.

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Yankees 5, Blue Jays 4: Yankees Rally For Victory

The New York Yankees have hit a major-league best 72 home runs this season. What they have not been able to do with regularity is get a base hit when they need one. The Yankees changed that trend Tuesday night, coming back from a 4-1 eighth-inning deficit for a walk-off 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees scored two runs in the eighth inning and won the game with two in the ninth, without hitting a home run. Mark Teixeira got the game-winning hit, ripping a shot off the glove of Blue Jays' first baseman Juan Rivera that scored  Curtis Granderson from second base.

"It was great to do that in front of our home crowd," Teixeira said. "We haven't done that too much this year."

The Yankees' ninth-inning rally began when pinch-hitter Jorge Posada double off Toronto closer Frank Francisco with one out. Chris Dickerson pinch-ran and moved to third on a groundout by Derek Jeter. Granderson, who went 4-for-5, singled to score Dickerson and tie the game. Granderson stole second, then scored when Teixeira's hit glanced off Rivera's glove and trickled into short right field.

CC Sabathia (5-3) pitched the Yankees first nine-inning complete game in more than two years to get the victory. Sabathia also had the last one, May 8, 2009 against Baltimore.

Trailing 4-1, the Yankeed got within 4-3 in the eighth inning on an RBI double by Robinson Cano and a run-scoring single from Russell Martin.

Yankees Vs. Blue Jays: Sabathia Pitching Tuesday

(Sports Network) - A terrific pitching matchup is on tap at Yankee Stadium this evening, as CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees continue their three- game series against Ricky Romero and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Sabathia was brilliant in beating the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, as he scattered seven hits over eight scoreless innings and struck out nine without walking a batter to run his record to 4-3, while lowering his earned run average to 3.06.

The big left-hander has also had tremendous success against the Blue Jays, posting a 9-3 mark to go along with a 3.11 ERA. He has also never lost to them as a member of the Yankees and has won his last four decisions in this series.

Toronto, meanwhile, will counter with an impressive southpaw of its own in Romero, who his 4-4 with a 3.10 ERA. Romero won for the third time in his last four starts on Thursday against Tampa Bay, as he gave up a run and three hits in seven innings.

On the milestone watch Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has appeared in 999 games. With his next appearance, he will become the 15th pitcher in major league history to reach the 1,000-appearance plateau and the first to reach that total with one team.

Blue Jays 7, Yankees 3: Toronto Ruins Bartolo Colon's Party

Bartolo Colon turns 38 today. The New York Yankees' pitcher won't be celebrating the way he had hoped, however. Colon had his roughest outing of the season Monday, surrendering six runs in six innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Yankees, 7-3, at Yankee Stadium.

The teams were locked in a 1-1 tie entering the sixth inning, but Toronto erupted for five runs. The game seemed to quickly get away from Colon (2-3) in the sixth. With the bases loaded and one out Aaron Hill singled through the left side to make it 2-1 and Eric Thames followed with a walk to make it 3-1. With the bases still loaded J.P. Arencibia doubled to right-center to drive in three runs and make the score 6-1. Arencibia finished the night with four RBI.

"He wasn't quite as sharp as we've seen him," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said about Colon. "He kept us in the game, but we were having trouble scoring off of Villanueva."

Carlos Villanueva (2-0), making a spot start in place of Jesse Litsch, who was put on the disabled list with an impingement in his right shoulder, worked five solid innings to get the win for Toronto. Starting his first game since October 3, 2009, the right- hander gave up only one run on two hits, struck out five and walked one.

For Toronto, Jose Bautista hit his major-league leading 19th home run of the season. For the Yankees, Robinson Cano drove in three runs.

-- Sports Network contributed to this report

Report: Pitchers Lining Up For 'Bartolo Colon Surgery'

Pitcher are apparently lining up to undergo the stem cell procedure that resuscitated the career of New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon, according to a published report. Once Colon's procedure became public knowledge, this was only a matter of time.

One of the doctors who assisted in a stem cell procedure last year on Yankees starter Bartolo Colon says that 10 other pitchers have expressed interest in undergoing the treatment that is being scrutinized by Major League Baseball.

Colon, 37, appeared to be out of baseball after being released by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim mid-way through the 2009 season. The 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner underwent a controversial procedure in Arpil of 2010 in which his own stem cells were re-inserted into his body to treat injuries to colon's elbow and shoulder.

Colon is 2-2 this season with a 3.16 ERA, and has been throwing the ball in the mid- to upper 90s.

Major League Baseball is looking into this procedure, which was done in the Dominican Republic. If, as Colon's doctors insist, MLB finds no banned substances were used and that the treatment is acceptable we could see a new era in the treatment of injuries to pitchers. You have to wonder if we might be on the cusp of a new treatment that will extend pitchers' careers the way the commonly-used Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery has.

Yankees Vs. Blue Jays: Jose Bautista Leads Jays Into Town

The New York Yankees move on from the Subway Series Monday night be returning to the trenches of the American League East. They open a three-game series at Yankee Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays at 7:05 p.m.

The Yankees lead the division with a 25-20 record, percentage points ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays. The Blue Jays are 23-23, 2.5 games behind. Toronto is led by Jose Bautista with his major-league leading 18 home-runs and his .353 batting average.

Bartolo Colon (2-2, 3.16 ERA) will pitch Monday night for the Yankees. Carlos Villanueva (1-0, 1.48) makes his first start after 13 relief appearances.

After the series with Toronto the Yankees head West for a nine-game trip during which they will face the Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.