Blue Jays knuckle under to Yankees, 5-3

Dickey was held out of the decision in his last start, when he was reached for five runs – three earned – on six hits and three walks in six innings against Minnesota on August 28.

PADRES 2, RED SOX 1: Edwin Jackson struck out 11 in seven scoreless innings to outpitch former Padres ace Drew Pomeranz, Adam Rosales hit a two-run homer and San Diego edged Boston.

NY had 15 hits, all singles, in the weekend series at Baltimore, the first big league team to go without an extra-base hit in a series of three games or longer since the Chicago White Sox at Minnesota from September 14-16, 2004.

Jarrod Dyson had three hits and scored three times for Kansas City, which won for the second time in six games and stayed on the edge of the AL wild-card race.

Chatham native Andy Fantuz caught five passes for 48 yards in the Hamilton Ticats 49-36 win over the Toronto Argonauts.

Jacoby Ellsbury tied a season-high with three RBIs by hitting a two-run homer and an RBI single off R.A. Dickey (9-14).

Unless the Yankees put together a run of, say, 10 wins in 12 games, it’s going to be hard to drastically change the final picture of this playoff push.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Ubaldo Jimenez threw a two-hitter for his first complete game since 2011, leading Baltimore to the win. He retired 25 of 26 – the lone baserunner coming on a fourth-inning walk – after giving up Logan Morrison’s three-run homer in the first.

METS 5, REDS 0: Bartolo Colon (13-7) pitched six innings of five-hit ball and Matt Reynolds homered as the Mets won at Cincinnati for their sixth victory in eight games. It wasn’t until Tanaka left the game after 6.1 innings that the Jays broke through. The knuckleballer is struggling with his consistency this season but is at least keeping the ball in the yard of late with one home run allowed in his last five starts.

LOS ANGELES – Adrian Gonzalez and four others combined to homer five times off Zack Greinke in his first road start against his former team and Los Angeles beat Arizona for its third straight victory.

The latest dose of Gary Sanchez greatness was displayed in the top of the fourth when the rookie catcher showed off his cannon at the expense of Melvin Upton Jr, who was thrown out trying to steal second on a 77 miles per hour curveball.

Astros 6, Indians 2: Rookie Alex Bregman continued his hot hitting with a two-run homer in the third inning, and Houston ended Cleveland’s six-game winning streak. But that’s all they could get, leaving two on base.

Philadelphia’s Jerad Eickhoff (10-13) allowed the first two batters to score and then settled down to pitch six innings.

Of course, Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka deserves credit for slowing down the Jays, but he didn’t have his sharpest day either on Monday.

Kole Calhoun smacked his 16th home run and Albert Pujols had a two-run double, helping the Angels win for the eighth time in nine games overall and seventh time in their past nine road outings. Yanks’ manager Joe Girardi then pulled Heller for left-hander Tommy Layne to face left-handed hitter Michael Saunders, who was then pinch hit for Russell Martin who popped out to second to end the inning.