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TORONTO -- The New York Yankees will be trying to do something they have failed to do for the past three games when they play the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon. Michael Orozco Jersey .They will try to score a run, or even better, several of them,The Yankees have not scored in their past three games, the past two against Toronto and the first against the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday.It is the first time the Yankees have been held scoreless in three consecutive games since July 27 (a doubleheader) and July 28, 1975.Its hard to explain, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said after the 3-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon. We didnt have too many opportunities today. (Toronto starter Marcus) Stroman kept us in check (for seven innings). We just werent able to get anything going off him.You hope you go out and score the first inning the next day and that it kind of gets you going. Theres no lack of effort. You become disappointed when theres a lack of effort.The Yankees have been shut out six times in September and an American League-leading 13 times overall this season. They also have lost 10 of their past 13 games and are pretty well out of the race for a wild-card spot although still mathematically alive.They also will be trying to end a seven-game losing streak at Rogers Centre when they send out right-hander Michael Pineda (6-11, 4.89 ERA) against Toronto right-hander Marco Estrada (9-9, 3.62).The Blue Jays have won six of their past nine games and occupy the first American League wild-card spot.All of their runs Saturday came on the 20th homer of the season by Jose Bautista with two outs in the eighth inning against Yankees reliever Tyler Clippard.This season has been a struggle for Bautista, who has had two stints on the disabled list that have cost him 42 games.Hes heating up at the right time, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. He has been known to do some things in key spots. I was sitting on the bench with DeMarlo (bench coach Hale) and mentioned that to him (when Bautista batted in the eighth). Right guy, right time, basically.Bautista is showing that he might be a key figure down the September stretch and into October.He hit a ninth-inning homer on Wednesday to tie the score in Seattle, a game the Blue Jays went on to lose 2-1 in 12 innings to the Mariners.Bautista, who has put the Blue Jays ahead in a game with 14 of his homers this season, was not about to point to nagging injuries this season as an excuse for a .233 batting average and lower than usual power numbers.Everybody in here has been banged up or had to deal with something so I cant really point to that as an excuse, Bautista said. Do I feel better physically? Yes. Does that help? Probably. Ive been nicked up for the past fives, six years, and Ive had success before so Im not going to use that as an excuse.Estrada, who will start the third game of the four-game series against the Yankees on Sunday, ended a three-game losing streak Monday when he held the Mariners to one hit, three walks and no runs in seven innings. He had eight strikeouts in the 3-2 victory. It was his first win since Aug. 29.In four starts in September, he is 1/3 with a 5.49 ERA. Estrada is 2-0 with a 3.79 ERA in three starts against the Yankees this season and is 3-2 with a 4.09 ERA in nine career games, including eight starts, against them.Meanwhile, Pineda has not completed five innings in three of his past four starts. He is on an eight-start winless streak that matches his career high. He is 0-1 with a 4.02 ERA during that span, although the Yankee are 4-4 in those starts.In two starts this season against Toronto, he is 0-1 with a 1.64 ERA. He is 2/3 with a 3.25 ERA in 10 career starts against the Blue Jays.It wont matter how well Pineda might pitch, however, if the Yankees do not score.Whatever were doing right now its not working, which disappointing because we swung the bats well the first two games in Tampa, said Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, who has had a sore neck and was limited to an inning in the field for the past two games. We just seem to have lost it the last few days. Geoff Cameron Jersey . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. DeAndre Yedlin Jersey . -- On the field, it was business as usual for Jameis Winston and No. http://www.soccerpro.us.com/USA/Chris-Wondolowski-Jersey/ . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings.England skipper Alastair Cook could get close to matching Sachin Tendulkars record of 51 Test hundreds, says Sir Ian Botham. Cook chalked up the 30th Test hundred of his career on the fifth and final day of the drawn first Test against India to move past Sir Donald Bradman in the all-time list, finishing on 130 off 243 balls.In so doing, he registered his fifth century in India - a record as he eclipsed the four apiece scored by South Africas Hashim Amla and West Indian duo Clive Lloyd and Everton Weekes. Cook and Virat Kohli reflect on the drawn first Test The 31-year-old still has quite some distance to go, though, to match the achievements of Tendulkar who rattled up 51 Test centuries over a 200-Test career.Nevertheless, Botham says Cook - Englands most-capped Test captain and leading Test run-scorer of all time with 10,839 in 136 Tests - is not out of the running.He just breaks records, said Botham, speaking to Sky Sports in Rajkot.I was here in India when he flew halfway around the world to play in Mohali and got a hundred after 30-odd hours travelling, having arrived the night before.Hes now got 30 hundreds and is the one player currently playing in world cricket who I believe could get close to Sachin Tendulkar.Hes not yet 32 and batsmen can go on for a bit longer than the hard-working bowlers and all-rounders. He could bat until hes 36 or 37. Mike Atherton says the drawn first Test will feel like a win for England Cook, in leading England for a 55th time in the Test in Rajkot, broke Michael Athertons record of 54 Tests as skipper. Moussa Sissoko Jersey. In the wake of his sides 1-1 series draw in Bangladesh, several bookmakers slashed the price of England suffering a 5-0 whitewash at the hands of world No 1 side India, but Botham said they could not have got it more wrong.England were written off before they even started this game by just about everybody, said the former all-rounder.Theyve come here and theyve dominated the game, putting runs on the board in the first innings which is crucial in this part of the world, and the bowlers stuck to their task.If you look at the scores up until the fourth innings youd have thought we were playing on a road but I thought it was an extremely good cricket wicket. Haseeb Hameed describes his Test debut as surreal I thought England out-played India for 90 per cent of this match and thats big news over here. They will take a lot from that.If our spinners bowl as well in the next Test as they have done here, then they can out-bowl India again - because I thought our spinners were better!Watch the second Test between India and England at Visakhapatnam live on Sky Sports 2 from 3.30am on Thursday. Also See: India hold out for draw Five things: Rajkot Day five highlights Cricket videos Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '