NEW YORK (AP) — Brett Gardner, DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit homered on consecutive pitches for the New York Yankees — and that was simply the beginning of the night time’s energy surge.

By the point the Bombers’ barrage was over, the Yankees had hit a record-setting 1.42 miles of residence runs in a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Yankees tied a serious league file with 5 residence runs in an inning and hit six general in a 10-7 win Thursday night time that prolonged their profitable streak to eight.

”What a present!” Gary Sanchez, who additionally homered, mentioned by way of a translator.

New York set a serious league file for many residence runs in a three-game span with 19 – three greater than the earlier excessive – and have become the primary workforce with six or extra residence runs in three straight video games. The Yankees (29-21) outscored Toronto 43-15 over the three video games and outhit the Blue Jays 44-28, opening a 2 1/2-game lead over the Blue Jays for second place and shutting inside one sport of Minnesota (31-21) for a first-round playoff collection at residence.

Voit’s residence run was his main league-leading 20th.

Aaron Hicks struck out, and Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres adopted with residence runs that gave the Yankees a 9-2 lead and chased Anderson. The Yankees hit 5 homers in an inning for the primary time, the seventh large league workforce to realize the feat.

”That was a whole lot of enjoyable.” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. ”Clearly a tie sport going into that inning after which everybody simply began unloading with actual good at-bats.”

The Yankees hit 2,005 toes of residence runs within the inning, in keeping with Statcast, 2,377 within the sport and seven,496 within the collection.

”It was superior,” mentioned Stanton, who had 4 hits for the primary time since July 23, 2018. ”On the whole it was simply wonderful to see everybody contribute like that.”

Sanchez, slumping for a lot of the season. added a seventh-inning homer off T. J. Zeuch for a 10-Three lead and raised his common to .145 together with his first multihit sport this yr.

After dropping 15 of 20 video games and almost dropping out of the AL’s eight playoff spots, the Yankees have outscored their opponents 71-20 over their profitable streak.

Masahiro Tanaka (3-2) allowed three runs and 7 hits in seven innings, placing out 5. Tanaka has thrown at the least 5 innings in every of his final 5 begins.

Anderson gave up seven runs and eight hits in 2 2/Three innings. He thought he could have been tipping pitches.

”Yeah, I feel they put some good swings on all these pitches, so I (was) form of questioning if I used to be doing one thing,” Anderson mentioned.

Toronto closed within the ninth in opposition to Jonathan Holder on Danny Jansen’s run-scoring single and Cavan Biggio’s bases-loaded stroll. Aroldis Chapman relieved with the bases loaded and gave up a two-run single to Bo Bichette, then struck out Randal Grichuk and Teoscar Hernandez for his third save. Chapman threw fastballs on all 12 pitches, ending the sport with a 101 mph pitch that Hernandez swung beneath.

”We may have simply mentioned OK, they’re swinging the bats nice, we’re executed. We got here again and made them use their nearer,” Blue Jays supervisor Charlie Montoyo mentioned.

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. was Three for Three with two homers off Tanaka and added an infield single within the ninth. He’s 11 for 20 with three homers and 5 RBIs in opposition to the Yankees this season.

”Apart from that, I really feel like I did a reasonably good job on the market,” Tanaka mentioned by way of a translator. ”I had good command and good management.”

BULLPEN REINFORCEMENTS

Zeuch and right-hander Wilmer Font joined the Blue Jays and made appearances. Font was activated from the 10-day injured checklist and Zeuch was recalled from the alternate website. Toronto optioned reliever Hector Perez and positioned Jacob Waguespack on the 10-day IL with a strained again.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: Hernandez returned to motion for the primary time since Sept. 5, going zero for five with 4 strikeouts after recovering from a left indirect damage. . 1B Rowdy Tellez (strained proper knee) is using a stationary bike however has additionally begun strolling higher, in keeping with Montoyo. . RHP Nate Pearson (elbow tightness) stays at Rochester the place he continues to throw. The membership hopes to construct him up as a reliever, noting that there’s not sufficient time left within the season to stretch him out as a starter. . RHP Matt Shoemaker (shoulder irritation) threw 45 pitches on Wednesday and felt good Thursday. He’s anticipated to throw stay batting apply quickly and will return as an opener or a reliever.

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Yankees: OF Aaron Decide was given the night time off, as Boone makes an attempt to maintain his All-Star slugger wholesome for the postseason. Decide was hitless in his return from the injured checklist Wednesday, his first motion since re-aggravating a strained proper calf on Aug. 26. . Torres (quad tightness) returned to the lineup for the primary time since Sunday and went 1 for five.

UP NEXT

Blue Jays: LHP Robbie Ray (2-4, 6.85 ERA) and RHP Ross Stripling (3-3, 5.88 ERA) are scheduled to begin a doubleheader in Philadelphia on Friday.

Yankees: LHP Jordan Montgomery (2-2, 4.76 ERA) kicks off a weekend collection at Fenway Park in opposition to last-place Boston.