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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Yankees 3, Toronto 2
When: 7:05 PM ET, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature: 85°
Umpires: Home - Alfonso Marquez, 1B - Ted Barrett, 2B - Mike DiMuro, 3B - Adam Hamari
Attendance: 37190

Yankees 3, Blue Jays 2 (2nd): Jayson Nix singled home the winning run in the ninth inning after tying the game with a home run in the seventh as host New York swept a doubleheader from Toronto.

Mark Reynolds led off the ninth with a walk and pinch-runner Ichiro Suzuki advanced to second on a groundout. Ichiro promptly stole third before Nix ended things with a single to left field off Toronto reliever Darren Oliver (3-4).

The late-game heroics made a winner out of Mariano Rivera (4-2), who worked a scoreless ninth as New York moved within five games of Oakland for the second American League wild-card spot. The Yankees have won 10 of 11 meetings with Toronto in 2013.

The Yankees erased a 1-0 deficit in the third inning as Robinson Cano singled to left-center to score Austin Romine from second. Toronto surged back in front in the fifth as Rajai Davis - who scored on a wild pitch in the first - hit a sacrifice fly that brought home Munenori Kawasaki, who reached on a one-out triple.

Nix evened things in the seventh, golfing a Mark Buehrle pitch over the left-field seats for his third homer of the season. Romine finished 3-for-3.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Buehrle allowed two runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings. New York counterpart Phil Hughes was charged with two runs on seven hits over six frames. ... Blue Jays OF Kevin Pillar recorded his first major-league hit, drilling a line-drive single to center leading off the third inning. Pillar began his career 0-for-17. ... Toronto 2B Maicer Izturis left the game in the bottom of the sixth inning with a mild left ankle sprain.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Toronto   NY Yankees
Mark Buehrle Player Phil Hughes
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.2 IP 6.0
5 Strikeouts 6
6 Hits 7
2.70 ERA 3.00
Hitting
Toronto   NY Yankees
Munenori KawasakiPlayer Austin Romine
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
4 TB 4
.667 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Toronto 10 0 12 .303 19 8 1 2 2 1
NY Yankees 8 1 13 .258 10 5 3 3 1 0