TORONTO _ And on the fourth day ... the Yankees finally scored a run.
Three of them in fact, including two in a surprising ninth inning that gave them a one-run lead.
It wasn't enough.
The Blue Jays managed to rally anyway, scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth to hand the Yankees a 4-3 loss in front of a sellout crowd of 47,896 at Rogers Centre.
Dellin Betances, back out for a second inning after allowing a Jose Bautista RBI single in the eighth that gave Toronto a 2-1 lead, walked leadoff man Melvin Upton Jr., and Joe Girardi made the move to Tyler Clippard.
The right-hander got ahead of Kevin Pillar 0-and-2 _ Pillar fouled off two bunt attempts _ before the center fielder banged a single to right, putting runners on the corners. Ezequiel Carrera, the No. 9 hitter, then laid down a perfect bunt to the left side of the mound. Clippard, with his glove, tried to shovel the ball to catcher Gary Sanchez _ the rookie did not seem to be expecting the flip _ and the ball skittered past as Upton slid across with the tying run and the runners went to second and third.
Clippard struck out Devon Travis and Girardi chose to intentionally walk Josh Donaldson, who was hot all series, to face Edwin Encarnacion. The first baseman, who has tortured the Yankees over the years, grounded one to the hole at second that Torreyes made a diving stop on, but Pillar scored easily to win it.
The Yankees (79-76) had been shut out in three straight games coming into the afternoon, running their ignominious consecutive scoreless innings streak to 33 before Didi Gregorius led off the seventh against Marco Estrada with his 19th homer, a solo shot that tied it at 1.
The Yankees, after Bautista's single off Betances in the eighth, trailed by one going into the ninth but rallied against Toronto closer Roberto Osuna.
Mark Teixeira led off the inning with a single and Rob Refsnyder pinch ran. Billy Butler, pinch hitting for Eric Young Jr., hit a broken-bat single to left and was replaced by pinch runner Donovan Solano.
Chase Headley hit a comebacker that Osuna couldn't handle cleanly, the resulting 1-3 putout moving up both runners.
Rookie Mason Williams lined a 1-and-2 pitch to left, the RBI single tying it at 2 and putting Solano on third. Torreyes' sacrifice fly gave the Yankees a short-lived 3-2 lead.
