The New York Yankees' offence has disappeared, and their Major League Baseball playoffs chances have pretty much vanished, too.
Jose Bautista hit a three-run homer off Tyler Clippard in the eighth inning to help the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Yankees 3-0 on Saturday.
New York has been shut out in three straight games for the first time July 27-28, 1975.
``Whatever we're doing right now, it's not working,'' first baseman Mark Teixeira said.
``We just seem to have lost it the last few days.''
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The Yankees have lost 10 of 13 following a seven-game winning streak and dropped four games back for the AL's second wild card with eight games left. They likely will miss the playoffs for the third time in four years.
New York has been held scoreless an AL-high 13 times this season, including six times in September.
The Yankees have not scored since Donovan Solano's two-run homer in the ninth inning of Wednesday's win at Tampa Bay and have gone 0 for 16 with runners in scoring position in their last three games, stranding 20 runners.
The major league record for consecutive shutout losses is four. The last to do it was the Chicago Cubs from April 27 to May 1, 1992.
Toronto, the AL wild-card leader, opened a two-game lead over Detroit.
