By Larry Millson / Special to MLB.com TORONTO -- If this was Javier Vazquez's audition for a postseason role, he is not likely to get a call back after the Blue Jays beat the Yankees, 8-4, before 33,143 at Rogers Centre. It was a happy final home game for Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston, who was honored in a pregame ceremony. Starting in place of Andy Pettitte, who was bumped to Friday after the Yankees clinched a playoff spot Tuesday, Vazquez (10-10) was hammered for seven runs and 10 hits, including three home runs in 4 2/3 innings Wednesday. He put the Yankees in a 7-0 hole. But third baseman Alex Rodriguez led off the sixth against Brett Cecil (15-7) with his 30th homer of the season. It is the 14th time in his Major League career in which he has had at least 30 homers and 100 RBIs, which extends his record. It is the 13th consecutive season in which Rodriguez has hit 30 homers, tieing Barry Bonds. A hit batter, a one-out walk and singles by Francisco Cervelli and Greg Golson scored two more runs to end Cecil's start. Travis Snider hit his 13th homer of the season on Vazquez's fourth pitch of the game, a 1-2 changeup. It was the 245th homer of the season for the Blue Jays, a club record. They hit 244 in 2000. John Buck added to that total with his 20th homer of the season on a 3-2 fastball with two out in the second. John McDonald followed with a double off the glove of Rodriguez at third. McDonald took third on a wild pitch and scored on Snider's single. The Blue Jays took a 4-0 lead in the fourth on John McDonald's fielder's choice. It scored Aaron Hill, who led off with a walk and took third on Adam Lind's single that went behind shortstop Derek Jeter, who was covering second with the runner going on the 3-2 pitch. Hill stayed at third on Buck's line drive off Vazquez's right arm. Vazquez retrieved the ball to get the force at second and stayed in the game after being evaluated by a trainer. Hill's three-run homer with two out in the fifth ended Vazquez's night. Hill drove in his fourth run of the game with a single against Joba Chamberlain in the seventh after Vernon Wells reached on an error from Rodriguez, took second on a wild pitch and stole third.
