Baseball: Masahiro Tanaka pitches 8-inning gem, Yankees end 2-game skid

Masahiro Tanaka kept the Toronto Blue Jays off-balance with a three-hit, eight-inning performance on Sunday, helping the New York Yankees snap a two-game losing streak with a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.Tanaka (8-6) fell three outs short of a complete game shutout as Aroldis Chapman finished the game, though the Yankees closer needed 13 pitches and seven foul balls to retire Blue Jays rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the first of three batters he faced in the ninth.Tanaka allowed the first batter he faced, Bo Bichette, to reach on an infield single, but he did not permi…READ FULL ARTICLE