Gausman pitches Blue Jays to 7-1 win over Yankees for 4-game lead in AL East

NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Gausman won for the first time in a month, Nathan Lukes hit a two-run single in a three-run first inning against rookie Cam Schlittler, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 7-1 on Friday night to reopen a four-game AL East lead over New York.

Two-time AL MVP Aaron Judge returned to right field for the first time since hurting his right elbow in late July and did not attempt to throw at full strength.

Toronto beat the Yankees for the eight time in 11 meetings this year and dropped New York to 17-23 against the AL East. Seeking its first division title since 2015, the Blue Jays trailed the Yankees by eight games in May but opened a 6 1/2-game lead in August.

Toronto chased Schlittler (2-3) after 1 2/3 innings. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered in the fifth against Ryan Yarbrough, his 23rd this season and 16th in 46 games at Yankee Stadium. Guerrero had his second four-hit game this year as the Blue Jays (82-59) clinched their fourth winning record in five years.

Bo Bichette put the Blue Jays ahead with a broken-bat RBI double down the left-field line and added a sacrifice fly in the second.

Gausman (9-10) allowed four hits in eight innings, struck out five and walked one.

New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton hit his 19th homer in 59 games since returning from the injured list.

The Yankees' charter flight landed at 4:15 a.m. at Newark Liberty International Airport after they finished a three-game series at Houston on Thursday night.

Schlittler threw 40 pitches in a first inning that included 13 foul balls. Making his 10th big league start, he gave up four runs, five hits and two walks. Toronto fouled off 24 of Schlittler's 66 pitches and tipped two others.

The game drew 46,055 fans for the Yankees’ 19th sellout this season, their most since 23 in 2018.

Moved up a day in Toronto's rotation, RHP Chris Bassitt (11-7, 4.10 ERA) starts Saturday while RHP Luis Gil (2-1, 3.68) takes the mound for the Yankees. Max Scherzer, bothered by back tightness last weekend, was pushed back to Sunday.

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New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, right and Jazz Chisholm Jr. watch a single hit by Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette fall between them during the fifth inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts after being called out on strikes during the second inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Toronto Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reacts after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Toronto Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. watches his home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire on Friday in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns burned makeshift houses and forced about 260 residents to flee, but no casualties were reported.

The fire was completely contained more than eight hours after it broke out in Guryong village in southern Seoul, the National Fire Agency said in a statement.

The agency said that 258 residents were evacuated to safe places and that there were no causalities.

The fire agency said it will launch forensic and other examinations to find what caused the blaze and to determine the extent of damage to property. Agency officials said they couldn’t immediately confirm how many houses were burned or damaged.

Local fire officer Jeong Gwang-hun told a televised briefing earlier Friday that more than 1,200 personnel, including firefighters and police officers, were deployed to the scene.

The hillside village has occasionally had fires over the years, a vulnerability that observers say is linked to its tightly packed homes built with materials that easily burn.

The village is located near some of Seoul’s most expensive neighborhoods, with towering high-rise apartments and lavish shopping districts, and has long been a symbol of South Korea’s stark income inequalities.

The village was formed in the 1980s as a settlement for people who were evicted from their original neighborhoods under massive house clearings and redevelopment projects.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the city were removed from their homes in slums and low-income settlements during those years, a process that the military-backed leaders of the time saw as crucial to beautifying the city for foreign visitors ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)

Smoke rises at the scene of a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)