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TORONTO -- The New York Yankees ended one streak, now they must find a way to end another streak on Monday in the finale of a four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays.They are on an eight-game losing streak at Rogers Centre.New York did score, at least, in the 4-3 loss to the Blue Jays Sunday.When Didi Gregorius led off the seventh inning with his 19th homer of the season, it ended the Yankees string of run-less innings at 33, a span that included being shut out in each of their three previous games.They avoided the embarrassment of becoming the first American League team to be blanked in four consecutive games since the introduction of the designated hitter in 1973. The Washington Senators were the last AL team to be shut out in four straight games and that was Sept. 1-5, 1964.The Yankees also looked as if they would win the game Sunday when they scored twice to go ahead 3-2 in the ninth only to have the Blue Jays score the tying run on a safety squeeze and the winning run on a two-out infield single to earn their third straight victory.The Blue Jays remain in the first wild-card spot by 1 1/2 games over the Baltimore Orioles, who start a three-game series in Toronto on Tuesday.The Yankees have lost four games in a row -- and 11 of their past 14 -- and are 5 1/2 games removed from a wild-card spot.They have lost eight games in a row at Rogers Centre.There have been few of those losses tougher to take than the one on Sunday.Its tough, its really tough, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.The loss took the Yankees one step closer to elimination from a chance to participate in the postseason.It stinks, Girardi said. Weve been fighting and fighting. You think about some of these games weve lost, theyve been really tough. Weve gotten good pitching performances, weve lost in a number of different ways. Its just been tough.The Blue Jays seem to be righting themselves. They lost nine of their first 12 games in September and now are 10-12 for the month.Marco Estrada, who did not factor in the decision Sunday despite allowing only one run in seven innings, feels the revival of the Blue Jays goes beyond the three straight wins to open the final seven-game home stand of the season.I dont think its the last three games, I think it goes back even further, he said, referring to the series in Seattle where throngs of Canadian fans cheered the Blue Jays on to win two of three games from the Mariners. Going to Seattle and just seeing that atmosphere, seeing the fans, all the support were getting on the road, it means a lot to us. It definitely pumps us up a bit.And then coming home and seeing sold-out crowds. Its a great feeling to be a part of this team right now. Were obviously very excited to be home and this atmosphere, you just cant beat it right now.So it definitely gives us a lot of energy and it pumps us up a lot. And were playing really good baseball right now. Our pitching has been really good, especially this series. Its a tough lineup over there on the other side and were able to pitch pretty well against them.Im glad our pitching is back to what it has been all year basically and obviously our hitting has been tremendous and we were able to score a few runs at the end.The Blue Jays will have their 20-game winner, J.A. Happ, going for them on Monday against the Yankees. Happ will go for his fourth win in a row. He is 3-0 with a 2.65 earned-run average in his past three starts. The left-hander is 3-0 with a 2.39 ERA in four starts against the Yankees this season and is 6-2 with a 4.02 ERA in 13 career starts against them.The Yankees did not officially announce a starter for Monday although Girardi said it likely will be right-hander Luis Severino, who has had more success this season as a reliever.Severino is 3-0 with a 0.39 ERA in 11 relief appearances. He is 0-8 with an 8.58 ERA in nine starts this season with the Yankees. In 13 games (12 starts) at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he was 8-2 with a 3.49 ERA. He pitched three scoreless innings in one relief appearance against the Blue Jays this season. In four career outings against Toronto, including three starts, he is 0-2, 5.71 ERA.Fake Yeezys Store . You can watch the game live on TSN at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt. The Flyers had won seven of eight before dropping their last two outings on consecutive days over the weekend. 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Cheap Fake Yeezys .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable.Tamil Nadu v Goa, Chennai, 2001-02My maiden first-class match actually helped me make my Ranji debut. It was against a tough Colombo side, which had around nine Test players - (Rangana) Herath, (Tillakaratne) Dilshan, (Thilan) Samaraweera, (Jehan) Mubarak, (Michael) Vandort, Ian Daniel, (Upul) Chandana and Prasanna Jayawardene. It was the MJ Gopalan Trophy and was watched by a good crowd. I bowled a wonderful spell I think: 16-10-16-4. That gave me an understanding of where I belong.I was also playing league cricket in Chennai, which was almost equal to Ranji Trophy. Vikram Rathore, Zaheer Khan, Rahul Dravid, Dinesh Mongia, Pankaj Dharmani played for different teams and it was very competitive. I was good enough in the league and believed I could do well in the Ranji Trophy also.After playing league cricket and Gopalan Trophy, I was expecting to be there for the match against Goa. If I say I wasnt nervous before my Ranji debut, I will be lying. Tamil Nadu had a lot of stars in the team. Robin Singh was the captain, there was Aashish Kapoor, Hemang Badani, Sadagoppan Ramesh, Sridharan Sharath. All were inspirational figures in the Tamil Nadu dressing room.I remember I was in my teens - I was 19 back then - in 2001. I was young and vibrant and was reasonably quick. I just wanted to take the ball and keep bowling the whole day. Today things have changed, in those days it [making a Ranji debut] was even more difficult. In those days you just wanted to share the dressing room with those Tamil Nadu legends and repeat what they do. To represent my state was a big pride and honour for me. R Ramkumar, the left-arm spinner, was also making his debut in same match. Ram is my room-mate from the [corporate team] Chemplast days. He is one of my closest friends from there onwards. Me and Ram were practicing slides before the game at the Chemplast ground, by around 6pm in the evening. It was something new to uss.dddddddddddd That was the last time I practiced sliding. We also bowled for two-three hours.I was very excited and waiting for the next day to start. My sleep was disturbed the night before the match. I got up and looked a few times at the clock, whether it had hit 6am - the time for me to get ready and go to the match.To play a Ranji game was definitely a big step-up. It was not boyish cricket anymore, it was about stepping into the shoes of a man. It was going to get tougher. The wicket had decent carry; Chennai wickets generally dont offer much to the seamers. I got a five-for in the second innings against Goa after two in the first innings.I remember my first-innings wickets were bowleds. One of the seniors came and told me finish it off, and the last batsman [Kalekar] was bowled.In the second innings, we were going for the innings victory, but couldnt get them all out. In those days, I used to bowl with the short run-up as well as the long run-up. I mixed them up and bowled one long spell in a row. I tried everything to get the outright victory - yorkers, back-of-the-hand slower balls, bouncers, variations. I remember Robin [Singh] telling me not to use many slower balls in four-day cricket and take genuine fast bowlers wickets like bowleds and caught off seam-up. I took it more seriously after that, because the slower ball is more like a defensive ball. Even in Test cricket, you dont get much wickets with the slower ball.That was my first five-wicket haul. I used to collect my five-wicket-haul balls during my club cricket days. Later I lost the habit of collecting balls, after I got into international cricket.My Ranji debut was a good boost and, from thereon, it was about taking one step at a time and getting better with experience.As told to Deivarayan Muthu ' ' '