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Long day for Yanks ends with 4.5-game deficit

NEW YORK -- Cliff Pennington homered and Ben Revere enjoyed a four-hit night as the Blue Jays took a commanding 4 1/2-game lead in the American League East with a 10-7 victory over the Yankees in Game 2 of a doubleheader that was delayed 33 minutes because of rain on Saturday night.

New York, which received a pair of three-run homers from Brett Gardner in the losing cause, entered the four-game series trailing by just 1 1/2 games. Toronto took the first game of the doubleheader, 9-5, and has won seven consecutive games at Yankee Stadium for the first time in franchise history.