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TORONTO (AP) -- Chris Carpenter took pleasure in beating the Yankees.
|  | | Chris Carpenter, right, got his first win of the season. |
"These guys were on a streak and I shut them down," he said
Friday after rebounding from the worst start of his career to stop
New York's eight-game winning streak with an 8-3 Toronto victory.
Carpenter (1-3), who lost his first three starts this season, pitched a five-hitter for his seventh career complete game, striking out three and walking none.
With the Blue Jays up 6-0, there was a moment of tension in the
fifth inning when New York reliever Todd Erdos hit Carlos Delgado
in the lower back with a pitch. Delgado glared at Erdos, and plate
umpire Bill Miller walked in front of Delgado as Delgado walked to
first.
"If somebody goes down, then somebody on the other side has to
go down," Delgado said. "You don't try to start a war, but you
have to put your foot down."
Carpenter nailed Tino Martinez in the fifth, and Derek Jeter in
the sixth.
"I don't think he hit me on purpose," Jeter said. "He did me a favor."
Toronto's Brad Fullmer and Marty Cordova were hit by pitches in the fourth inning by Ramiro Mendoza (1-1).
"I know nothing was going on on our side," Yankee manager Joe
Torre said. " They may have wanted to get even."
The Yankees, who at 11-4 have baseball's best record, were on
their longest winning streak since taking nine straight from Aug.
7-14, 1998.
"We played kind of dead," Jeter said. "One of the strengths
of this team is that we make pitchers work, but Carpenter threw
just 88 pitches. We we're a little too aggressive."
Carpenter got seven outs in first pitches to batter.
"It's so much easier to pitch when you're up 7-0 early in the
game," he said.
Toronto took a 2-0 lead in the first when Raul Mondesi tripled
in a run and scored on Delgado's single. The Blue Jays added four
runs in the fourth on Delgado's homer, Alex Gonzalez's two-run
single and Jose Cruz Jr.'s RBI double.
Following Chuck Knoblauch's leadoff single in the first,
Carpenter retired 12 straight. The Yankees didn't get their second
hit until Shane Spencer led off the sixth with a single. Clay
Bellinger then singled and Paul O'Neill singled both home.
Bernie Williams added a run-scoring grounder in the ninth.
After taking a perfect game into the seventh inning against
Kansas City last weekend, Mendoza (1-1) allowed six runs and seven
hits in four innings.
Delgado, Alex Gonzalez and Mondesi each drove in two runs for
the Blue Jays, who have won three straight. Toronto was just 2-10
against the Yankees last season.
Game notes
Carpenter needed just 88 pitches. ... New York's bleacher
creatures made the trip to Toronto. They chanted the names of each
Yankee player until they were acknowledged. ... The day after
Carpenter's previous start, Fregosi held a "heated" and
"paternal" pitchers-only meeting. ... One of Roger Clemens' boys
sat with him in the Yankees dugout. ... The Blue Jays have erected
a patio in the stands in right center. Fans can drink beer while
relaxing in a hot tub. ... Carpenter's previous complete game was
last Aug. 11 against Minnesota.
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Toronto 8
NY Yankees 3
Cleveland 0
Boston 0
Anaheim 9
Tampa Bay 6
Chi. White Sox 7
Detroit 2
Minnesota 10
Texas 5
Baltimore 11
Oakland 9
Seattle 10
Kansas City 2
Los Angeles 9
Cincinnati 2
Philadelphia 4
Florida 3
Montreal 5
Milwaukee 1
Chicago Cubs 0
NY Mets 0
Atlanta 6
Pittsburgh 2
San Diego 7
Houston 2
Colorado 6
St. Louis 4
San Francisco 11
Arizona 5
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 Chris Carpenter discusses his strategy in beating the Yankees.
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Bernie Williams says Carpenter kept the Yanks off-balance.
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