Yankees see dreadful J.A. Happ, bizarre ejection in loss

TORONTO — Three more homers served up by J.A. Happ combined with tough dusk sky and rabbit ears on an overmatched umpire with suspect knowledge of the strike zone combined to end the Yankees’ longest winning streak of the season at nine with an 8-2 loss to the Blue Jays.

Happ gave up three homers in five innings and has allowed 29 in just 120 innings this season after allowing 27 in 177 ²/₃ last year.

First baseman DJ LeMahieu lost an easy foul pop in the sky that would have ended the fourth inning, then helplessly watched Danny Jansen crush the next pitch for a three-run homer.

And Brett Gardner had to be restrained from going after plate umpire Chris Segal, who apparently believed it was Gardner complaining from the dugout about his strike calls to Cameron Maybin and Mike Tauchman in the fifth. In reality, it was Maybin who was chirping from the bench and not Gardner.

“F—ing terrible, let’s go,’’ yelled Maybin, whose lips were easy to read during television replays that even Segal could have seen it.

All of those events led to a Yankees defeat that was witnessed by a Rogers Centre crowd of 25,782. The loss stopped the 76-40 Yankees’ nine-game winning streak.

Gardner ejection was the Yankees’ fourth this year, but the first for a player. Manager Aaron Boone has been tossed three times.

Happ (9-7) gave up a two-run homer to Randal Grichuk in the first, a solo shot to Teoscar Hernandez in the second and the three-run poke to Jansen in the fourth. Happ leads the Yankees’ staff with those 29 homers allowed, tying him with Justin Verlander and Yusei Kikuchi for the AL lead.

Tauchman’s fifth homer in five games, a two-run homer in the fourth, accounted for the Yankees’ first runs and Mike Ford homered starting the seventh to reduce the Blue Jays’ lead to 6-2.

Hernandez connected for a two-run homer off Tommy Kahnle in the eighth that pushed the lead to 8-2.

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