Yankees win 7th straight, beat Blue Jays 10-5

TORONTO — Jorge Posada homered and drove in four runs, Alex Rodriguez also homered and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-5 Thursday night for their seventh straight victory.

The AL East leaders won for the 14th time in 17 road games. Toronto lost its fourth in a row.

Posada's homer was his 20th, giving New York a major league-leading seven players with at least that many — it's the first time the Yankees have done that in team history.

Posada went 4 for 5 and hit his 340th career double, moving past Bob Meusel into ninth place on the team's all-time list.

Rodriguez's homer, a solo shot in the ninth, was his 24th this season and 50th overall against Toronto. He has 577 lifetime.

Rodriguez had a more difficult time in the fifth when he collided with a policewoman while chasing a foul pop up down the left-field line.

In the sixth, a fan seated behind the first-base dugout caught a foul, then fired the ball back onto the field. The ball bounced in front of Yankees reliever Alfredo Aceves as he stood on the rubber, and several New York players came out of the dugout to watch as security apprehended the fan.

Aceves (10-1) worked 2 1-3 innings for his major league-leading 10th relief win. He allowed one earned run and two hits, striking out three.

David Robertson and Brian Bruney each pitched one inning and Damaso Marte came on after a leadoff walk in the ninth to finish it.

Derek Jeter went 0 for 4 with a sacrifice and remained nine hits shy of breaking Lou Gehrig's record for the most in Yankees history.

The Yankees jumped in front with a four-run first against Ricky Romero (11-7). Hideki Matsui hit a bases-loaded single that skipped under the glove of right fielder Travis Snider and rolled all the way to the wall for a two-base error, and Posada followed with an RBI single.

Melky Cabrera made it 5-0 with an RBI single in the fourth but the Blue Jays scored three in the bottom half, chasing Chad Gaudin.

Raul Chavez hit a bases-loaded single, Marco Scutaro followed with a sacrifice fly and Aaron Hill ended Gaudin's outing with an RBI single. Aceves came on and struck out Adam Lind to strand runners at first and second.

New York tacked on two more in the fifth with RBI singles from Alex Rodriguez and Posada, knocking out Romero.