By Tim Britton / MLB.com TORONTO -- Aaron Hill's line-drive single up the middle off Chad Gaudin lifted the Blue Jays past the Yankees, 3-2, in 14 innings on Saturday at Rogers Centre. Gaudin issued a leadoff four-pitch walk to Edwin Encarnacion before Fred Lewis bunted him over. Hill then lined an 0-2 pitch into center to score Encarnacion without a throw and end the Yankees' longest game since last August's 15-inning affair with the Red Sox. It was a classic pitchers' duel all afternoon, first between Andy Pettitte and Toronto's Ricky Romero and later between the bullpens. While neither starter appeared dominant during the game, the two left-handers each worked swiftly and efficiently and extricated themselves from almost every jam. Pettitte had his characteristically excellent cutter from the start, and he used it to pile up a season-high 10 strikeouts. All 10 came swinging on that cutter, and he got both Hill and Adam Lind three times apiece. Romero, for his part, did his best to replicate Brett Cecil's success from a night earlier with his changeup. In the process of joining Cecil as the only starters to finish eight frames against the Yankees this season, Romero, like Pettitte, got all of his strikeouts swinging on the same pitch, that deceptive changeup on the outside corner to right-handed hitters. It was fitting, then, that all the Yankees could muster off Romero was Derek Jeter's two-run opposite-field home run off that changeup in the fifth. The blast gave the captain 1,101 RBIs in his career and moved him past Don Mattingly into ninth all-time on the franchise list for RBIs. Jeter had a golden opportunity to add to that total when he came up with men on second and third and one out in the seventh in a 2-1 game. With the Toronto infield in, though, he lined it straight to Hill who, after dropping the ball on the exchange, doubled up Francisco Cervelli off third to end the inning. Jeter also grounded out with Brett Gardner on second to end the Yankees' 12th. Like A.J. Burnett on Friday, Pettitte was victimized by his few mistakes. Vernon Wells, who came into the game with a .348 career average against Pettitte, went the other way with a fastball on the outer half of the plate for his first opposite-field home run since 2006 to lead off the second. Alex Gonzalez got around on a cutter in leading off the seventh to tie the game at 2. He finished having allowed the two runs on five hits in 7 2/3 innings. The two squads then relied on relief pitching and defense to keep the game tied into extra innings. Nick Swisher made his second fantastic catch at the wall of the game in the 10th to take an extra-base hit away from Lind, while Wells tracked down a Curtis Granderson drive to the warning track in the 11th. Mark Teixeira tied a career-high by striking out in his last five trips to the plate.
