NEW YORK _ Well, the Yankees could at least take this positive from a lost weekend:
The Oakland A's are no longer winning every game.
And so the egg the Yankees laid Sunday afternoon at the Stadium, which came in the form of a 3-2 loss to the going-nowhere Blue Jays, wasn't nearly as costly as it could have been.
The A's, who had a chance to climb within one-half game of the Yankees for home-field advantage for the Oct. 3 AL wild-card game, dropped two of three to the Rays.
That allowed the Yankees, who lost two of three to the Blue Jays and who are 8-11 in their last 19 games, to stay 1 { games ahead of Oakland.
The Yankees (91-58), despite their offense doing little, took a 2-1 lead into the eighth inning before Dellin Betances gave up two runs. The right-hander, booed lustily by the crowd, wasn't hit particularly hard in allowing four hits.
Starter Lance Lynn, vying for the fourth rotation spot should the Yankees get to the division round, was solid, allowing one run and three hits over five innings. The right-hander struck out seven and walked one.
Toronto left-hander Thomas Pannone, making his fourth big-league start, came in 2-1 with a 4.13 ERA. On Sunday the 24-year-old allowed two runs in the first inning but nothing else. Pannone allowed those two runs and four hits over seven innings.
Mark Leiter pitched a scoreless eighth _ he stranded Giancarlo Stanton at third _ and Ken Giles worked a scoreless ninth. Didi Gregorius singled off Giles with one out in the ninth but the reliever struck out Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez to end it.
