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Don’t look now, but the Yankees are as close to first place in the AL East as they have been in more than two months after winning a series over the Blue Jays.

They closed it out Sunday in The Bronx with a 4-3 win that featured a gritty outing by Max Fried, who struggled in the second and third innings but settled in for seven strong innings in another solid start to help the Yankees take the series from first-place Toronto.

Ben Rice provided most of the offense with a three-run homer in the first.

And Devin Williams, who’s had a mostly miserable first season with the Yankees, pitched a scoreless eighth inning against the heart of

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