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- Updated: May 25, 2016
NEW YORK — Carlos Beltran and Nathan Eovaldi continued their recent hot streaks, while the Yankees’ bullpen was stingy as usual on Tuesday night, as the Yanks beat the Blue Jays, 6-0, and pulled back to .500 for the first time since April 14.
Eovaldi shut down the Blue Jays’ lineup for six-plus shutout frames, striking out five and at one point setting down 11 consecutive Toronto batters. The Jays only mustered two hits off him, the last of which led off the third inning. The Yankees’ offense didn’t do too much to back Eovaldi up, notching just three hits while he was in the game, but Beltran had two RBIs, one of which came on a fourth-inning home run, and New York broke it open with a pair of runs in both the seventh and eighth.
“The good thing is, we’re playing better,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “We’re getting contributions from everyone up and down the lineup. It seems to come from different spots. That’s been important too. You’re getting contributions from everyone in the pitching staff. That’s important. And that’s how you win series. That has to be the focus.”
Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had an impressive outing of his own, too, but well-timed Yankees hits chased him from the game after 6 2/3 innings. He surrendered only five hits and struck out seven in the loss.
“We’re searching for a spark,” Dickey said. “Some kind of spark to get us going to generate a little bit more energy, I think. The good news is, this is not uncharted territory for us. This is not doom and gloom in here. We have the experience in here to arrest what’s going on and return to the brand of baseball that we know best. We just need a little spark.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDBack to square one: After a less-than-stellar April that left the Yankees as many as eight games below .500 on May 5, they clawed their way back to an even record at 22-22. A lot of that success has been aided by Beltran’s hot streak. Since the Yankees’ May 6 win over Boston, Beltran is 20-for-64 with six home runs and 19 RBIs.
Another solid six: Eovaldi, just one start removed from a dazzling six-inning, one-hit win in …
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