The New York Yankees rallied with five runs in the ninth inning and then hung on to avoid a four-game sweep as they beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 Monday on an wild evening that saw three hit batsmen, four ejections and the benches empty twice.
For the second night in a row, the game turned in the late innings.
New York's Mark Teixeira tied the game with a one-out solo homer deep to right field off Jason Grilli (7-6), who got the nod with closer Roberto Osuna needing rest. After Didi Gregorius singled, Aaron Hicks went deep to right for a 5-3 lead. Jacoby Ellsbury's RBI single and Gary Sanchez's sacrifice fly off Danny Barnes added to the Jays' pain as the Yankees sent eight men to the plate.
New York had cut the lead to 3-2 in the eighth on Ellsbury's RBI single.
Trailing 7-3, the Jays went to work in their half of the ninth.
Helped by two walks, an error and wild pitch, Toronto loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth. And six-foot-eight closer Dellin Betances almost made it four hit batsmen, just missing Darwin Barney with a 97 m.p.h heater.
Blue Jays miss sweep of Yankees in testy series finale
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