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Jays rally to beat Yankees, but Romero bails

BLUE JAYS 3 YANKEES 2 Adeiny Hechavarria doubled home the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning and the Blue Jays beat the Yankees Saturday, trimming New York's lead atop the AL East.
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Blue Jays' Yunel Escobar, right, tags out New York Yankees' Ichiro Suzuki at second base during the seventh inning Saturday in Toronto.

BLUE JAYS 3 YANKEES 2

Adeiny Hechavarria doubled home the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning and the Blue Jays beat the Yankees Saturday, trimming New York's lead atop the AL East.

Toronto's Rajai Davis homered and had three hits as the Blue Jays increased the pressure on the Yankees, who wasted several opportunities early.

Shawn Hill (1-0) pitched three innings of scoreless relief for the win and Casey Janssen closed it out for his 21st save in 24 chances.

Andy Pettitte's stretch of 11 scoreless innings since his return from a broken lower left leg was halted in the first when Davis hit a one-out solo homer to left, his eighth.

Ricky Romero was hoping his final start of the year would help erase some of the memories from a disappointing regular season.

Instead, the Toronto lefthander had to deal with even more frustration as a left leg injury ended his day after just three innings. - CP/AP

ATHLETICS 7 MARINERS 4, (10 INN)

OAKLAND, California - Josh Donaldson hit a tying two-run home run in the ninth inning and Brandon Moss hit a gameending three-run homer in the 10th, and the Athletics gained ground on the first-place Texas Rangers with a stunning win over the Seattle Mariners Saturday.

Coco Crisp singled off Oliver Perez (1-3) leading off the final inning for his fourth hit. Stephen Pryor entered with one out and walked Yoenis Cespedes on four pitches.

Moss hammered the first pitch against Pryor well over the wall in right for his 21st home run, sending Oakland streaming out of the dugout to celebrate its major-league leading 14th walk-off win.

The A's are 2 1 games back /2 of Texas in the division and 2 1 /2 ahead of the L.A. Angels for the final wild card.