Posada's 12th-Inning Single Gives Yanks Win

New York Yankees starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, of Taiwan, delivers a pitch during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays Saturday, July 4, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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David Robertson came in and walked Rolen and Lyle Overbay. After Vernon Wells took a called third strike, Rios singled to center to give the Blue Jays a 5-3 lead.

Toronto's three-run inning put Halladay in position to become the major leagues' first 11-game winner but the right-hander never looked comfortable in his first start at New York's cozy new ballpark.

Derek Jeter hit a leadoff single in the seventh and Damon followed with a drive that landed a few rows back in right, tying it at 5.

Halladay equaled a career worst by allowing three homers over seven innings in his second start since coming off the disabled list after being sidelined with a sore groin. He is 16-5 with a 2.90 ERA in 34 games, 31 starts, against the Yankees.

Before the game, Jeter helped Major League Baseball commemorate the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's luckiest man speech, reading the famous line from the icon's stirring words during a video tribute.

The Yankees also placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers by Gehrig's plaque in Monument Park and made a $25,000 donation to Major League Baseball's "4 (diamond) ALS" initiative, an effort to raise awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — the disease that forced Gehrig out of baseball in 1939 and took his life two years later.

NOTES: New York owner George Steinbrenner turned 79. Steinbrenner has attended few games since becoming increasingly frail in recent years. ... Girardi said Rodriguez could get a day off Sunday. ... Rolen has the longest active streak in the majors.

(This version CORRECTS Yankees 6, Blue Jays 5, 12 innings. SUBS 10th graf to correct to Steve Donohue sted Gene Monahan going to mound with Girardi)

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