NEW YORK -- Sensing the seasons dwindling days, the New York Yankees opened their penultimate homestand by falling behind on Masahiro Tanakas seventh pitch of a sunny Labor Day afternoon.Jacoby Ellsbury turned the deficit into a lead on R.A. Dickeys third offering of the day, and New York remained on the periphery of contention for a postseason berth with four weeks remaining.Ellsbury drove a 73 mph knuckleball over the right-field short porch for a two-run homer, then added an RBI single to lead the Yankees over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Monday and keep New York 3 1/2 games back in the AL wild-card race.Its almost imperative, said Brett Gardner, who singled one pitch ahead of Ellsburys seventh homer. At this point, we have to win every series the rest of the way. Weve got to play well, and two-out-of-three is the worst-case scenario for us.Starting a 10-game homestand that includes four games against Tampa Bay and three vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York (71-65) matched its season high of six games over .500.AL East-leading Toronto (77-60), which remained one game ahead of Boston, had been 9-3 against the Yankees this year and won seven of the prior eight matchups. The Blue Jays jumped in front when Devon Travis doubled and Jose Bautista singled, both on 0-2 counts.I felt like I was all over the place, Tanaka said through a translator.Tanaka (12-4) gave up three hits in the first but only one run, helped when Bautista got thrown out at the plate on a grounder, and settled down to win his fifth straight decision.Gardner took a strike in the bottom half and singled to center, and Ellsbury drove a high knuckler 351 feet. Ellsbury had three hits, including two against Dickey that lifted his average against the knuckleballer to .306 (11 for 36).You just try to anticipate it falling back in the zone, Ellsbury said. Last time he threw me a fastball, I hit a triple.Ellsbury added an RBI single in the third, and rookie Travis Austin hit his second double of the game in the fourth, a drive off the wall in left-center that drove in two runs for a 5-1 lead.Tanaka allowed two runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings, leaving after a leadoff walk and a fly ball by Dioner Navarro that 6-foot-7 Aaron Judge caught against the top of the right-field wall.Jonathan Holder, who made his big league debut Friday, got an out but walked his next two batters. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run, opposite-field single to right off Ben Heller for his third hit, and Tommy Layne -- New Yorks third straight rookie reliever -- retired pitch hitter Russell Martin on a looping ball to second baseman Starlin Castro.Dellin Betances, the Yankees sixth pitcher, got three straight outs for his ninth save.Dickey (9-14) allowed five runs and seven hits in four innings on a blustery afternoon, his second shortest start this season. He is 0-6 in his last nine starts at Yankee Stadium.I had a lot of movement on it, he said of his knuckler. Sometimes this games a matter of centimeters, you know, one that gets off the barrel, doesnt get off the barrel and its popped out to right field.MOVING INEric Young Jr. took over Alex Rodriguezs locker stall and Greg Bird moved into Carlos Beltrans. Bird, sidelined all season following surgery in February to repair a right labrum tear, hit in a batting cage for the first time since the operation. He expects to face pitching in the instructional league for two weeks starting Sept. 26 and play in the Arizona Fall League.POWER OUTAGENew York had 15 hits, all singles, in the weekend series at Baltimore, the first big league team to go without an extra-base hit in a series of three games or longer since the Chicago White Sox at Minnesota from Sept. 14-16, 2004. The Yankees had not done that since July 26-28, 1974, also at Baltimore.SLIDINGJudge was 0 for 3 with three strikeouts, dropping his batting average to .169, and has 35 strikeouts in 65 at-bats. ... Didi Gregorius is in a 1-for-19 slump.TOP SPYJohn O. Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, threw out a ceremonial first pitch.TRAINERS ROOMYankees: With RHP Chad Green sidelined with an elbow injury, manager Joe Girardi said his starting pitcher Wednesday could be Bryan Mitchell, who broke a toe in spring training and has a 4.29 ERA in six minor league rehabilitation starts. 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Greg Rusedski thinks Andy Murray should be targeting multiple grand slam titles in 2017.The 29-year-old will head into next season as the man to beat after clinching the year-end world No. 1 spot by defeating Novak Djokovic at the ATP World Tour Finals.Rusedski told PA Sport: This year was a rarity that the player who finished No. 1 didnt have the most majors.Next year the goals got to be to try to win at least two majors because usually the best player on the planet has the most majors in their pocket. Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have won 43 slam trophies between them and have all claimed three titles in a season at least once.The Australian Open is only seven weeks away and, after losing in the final five times, a first title in Melbourne is an obvious big goal for the Scot.Should Murray achieve that, he would need only a French Open title to complete the career Grand Slam. He reached the final at Roland Garros for the first time this year, losing to Djokovic.Former British No. 1 Rusedski added: Hes been in five finals in Australia, thats an astronomical amount of times without winning the title.For him, thats one of the slams you would have expected him to win first. He gets his off-season usually spot on so I think going in he has to be the favourite for the title.I always thought he could win the French but I think he didnt believe he could win. Djokovic finally won his first one this year, Federer only won his when Rafa went out, so its not an easy thing to do.Rafas going to be back and Im sure Novaks going to be back but Andys gott a great shot.ddddddddddddurray finished the season on a winning streak of 24 matches and five titles and will shortly head to Miami for his pre-season training camp.Meanwhile, Djokovics victory in Paris in June marked the divide between two very different halves of the year for the Serb.So dominant for the first five-and-a-half months, Djokovic ended the season looking like a shadow of the man who briefly held all four slam titles.He was the favourite to reclaim the No. 1 spot in the final at the O2 Arena with Murray having survived an epic semifinal against Milos Raonic, but produced an error-strewn performance.The 29-year-old has admitted to feelings of burn-out as well as an unspecified personal issue, and Rusedski believes the sudden prominence in Djokovics team of Pepe Imaz, a coach who focuses on mental well-being, is a sign all is not well.Its got to hurt, said Rusedski. 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