Phil Hughes roughed up as Blue Jays beat Yankees, 10-7

TORONTO -- Though clearly not pleased, Phil Hughes shrugged off his disappointing 41/3-inning start in Detroit on Tuesday. "I don't think it's anything where I need to go to the drawing board or anything like that," he said afterward.

Now it might be time for a sketch or two.

Hughes was brutal Sunday, allowing five runs after two were out during a six-run fourth as the Yankees lost to the Blue Jays, 10-7, in front of 43,924 at Rogers Centre.

When Ryota Igarashi replaced Hughes to begin the fifth and allowed a two-out, three-run double by Rajai Davis (five RBIs), the Yankees trailed 10-1 in a game in which they would get the go-ahead run to the plate in the seventh.

"It's tough, especially the way we fought back," Hughes said. "To know I personally gave that game away early is tough to live with."

Hughes (11-10) allowed seven runs and nine hits in four innings. "I was coming off a string of some pretty good starts and I've had two bad ones," he said. "I have to forget about them and move on. If I try to panic about it, then it's probably going to get worse. I have to clear my head and be ready in five days."

Derek Jeter (three hits) homered over the rightfield wall and Robinson Cano added a two-out, two-run homer into the second deck in rightfield in the sixth.

With Curtis Granderson on first and none out in the seventh, Davis robbed Casey McGehee of a two-run homer, climbing the leftfield wall and bringing his towering drive back into play with a highlight-reel catch.

Davis, a 5-9 former basketball player, went back slowly as he timed the play, then accelerated, leaped and made the catch with his glove over the wall. He flashed a big smile afterward.

"Sometimes you have to tip your hat. He made a heck of a play," said McGehee, who homered and doubled Saturday and doubled yesterday. "I guess I have to hit it a few feet further next time."

Said Joe Girardi: "It was a huge catch. An unbelievable catch. He hurt us today, there's no doubt about it.''

Granderson scored anyway on Jayson Nix's two-out double off Brad Lincoln. Jeter followed with an RBI double and scored on Nick Swisher's single to make it 10-7, and 41-year-old lefty Darren Oliver replaced Lincoln.

Swisher was held up at third on Mark Teixeira's double to left and Oliver hit Cano in the upper back to load the bases before Andruw Jones grounded hard to third to force Teixeira. Oliver and Casey Janssen then retired the final six Yankees batters.

Hughes' worst inning in Detroit was a 42-pitch fourth in which he allowed two runs, and the same inning bit him Sunday. He threw 32 pitches as the Blue Jays, who ended a five-game losing streak, took a 7-0 lead. Edwin Encarnacion (three hits) capped the six-run inning with his 30th homer, a two-run shot that ricocheted off an automobile ad in the second deck.

"A lot of fastballs out over the middle of the plate," Hughes said. "Was trying to get the ball down and away and a lot of pitches were running back."

"I'm not going to worry about it," Girardi said. "I expect him to bounce back. Today he had a bad fourth inning, both times it's been the fourth inning, and I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to that, either. He just hasn't had his great stuff his last two starts."

Hughes isn't dwelling on it. "Just getting on the side of the ball more than anything. It's not really a mechanical thing," he said. "I have to get it right and I have confidence that I will."