Bautista hits 2 homers, Cecil wins fourth straight start as Blue Jays beat Yankees 6-1
Jose Bautista hit two towering home runs, Edwin Encarnacion also connected and the slugging Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-1 on Friday night.
Brett Cecil (6-2) pitched eight innings for Toronto, matching a career high. He allowed one run and five hits while improving to 4-0 with a 1.52 ERA in his past four starts.
Bautista led off the second with a drive off A.J. Burnett (6-3) that went off the facing of the third deck in left, his career high 17th. He went deep again in the fourth, finding the same area again for a two-run shot.
Encarnacion led off the fifth with his eighth homer, a drive to left-center that gave Toronto a 4-0 lead.
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