<p>NEW YORK — Steven Matz returned to New York with his finest outing in two years, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his major league-leading 16th home run and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-2 Tuesday night.</p>
<p>Corey Kluber, making his first start after pitching a no-hitter for the Yankees, had his outing cut short by shoulder tightness. The team said the two-time Cy Young Award winner will have a MRI.</p>
<p>Toronto stopped its six-game losing streak and the Yankees’ six-game winning streak, improving to 5-2 against New York this season.</p>
<p>Bo Bichette reached on an infield single with one out in the third for the first hit off Kluber, a 35-year-old right-hander who pitched his first no-hitter at Texas last Wednesday. Guerrero followed with a drive into the right-field bullpen, giving him 41 RBIs.</p>
<p>Kluber (4-3) was replaced by Michael King at the start of the fourth inning.</p>
<p>Lourdes Gurriel Jr. homered in the fourth and shortstop Gleyber Torres made a two-run throwing error that extended the lead to 5-0 in the seventh. Randal Grichuk homered against Justin Wilson in the ninth, his 16th against the Yankees since 2018. </p>
<p>Matz (6-2), a 29-year-old left-hander from Stony Brook, New York, won 11 games for the Mets in 2019 but faltered to an 0-5 record and 9.68 ERA last year. The Mets traded him to Toronto in January with a 36-43 record in seven seasons in Queens.</p>
<p>He gave up six hits in 6 2/3 innings, struck out 10 and walked none. New York didn’t advance a runner past first until the seventh inning, when Clint Frazier doubled and Kyle Higashioka followed with an RBI single on Matz’s 112th and final pitch — his most since June 2019.</p>
<p>Matz reached 96.4 mph, up from an average of 94.7 mph for his fastball coming in.</p>
<p>Toronto’s bullpen took four of the six losses during the slide, with a 7.25 ERA, yet held this time. Tyler Chatwood walked Brett Gardner but retired Luke Voit on a soft comebacker, then pitched around another walk in the eighth. Jordan Romano gave up an unearned run in the ninth.</p>
<p>New York starters had pitched 37 consecutive scoreless innings before the third, when Bichette grounded to the shortstop hole and beat the throw from Torres, who was standing a few steps into left field. Guerrero then homered on a flat cutter.</p>
<p>Kluber threw 58 pitches, walked three and struck out five. His fastball velocity dropped from mostly 91-93 mph in the first two innings to 89-91 mph in the third.</p>
<p>Kluber’s 2019 season ended for Cleveland that May 1 when he was hit on the forearm by a comebacker, and his debut for Texas in 2020 lasted just one inning before he tore a muscle in his right shoulder on July 26.</p>
<p>BABY BOMBERS</p>
<p>INF DJ LeMahieu was placed on the paternity list because wife Jordan was giving birth to their first child, and the Yankees uncharacteristically played a man short. Voit is likely to miss Friday’s game at Detroit; wife Tori plans to induce labor that morning. “Still don’t know if it’s a boy or girl, which makes anticipation even crazier. But I can’t wait to meet my son or daughter,” Voit said.</p>
<p>TRAINER’S ROOM</p>
<p>Yankees: OF Giancarlo Stanton (quadriceps) ran bases pregame and could be activated Wednesday or Thursday … LHP Zack Britton, recovering from surgery on March 15 to remove a bone spur in his pitching elbow, threw a bullpen Monday and is to throw another Wednesday, then make rehabilitation outings for Double-A Somerset on Saturday, June 1, June 4 and June 6.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>RHP Alek Manoah, the 11th overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, makes his major league debut for the Blue Jays, and RHP Domingo Germán (4-2) starts with a fifth day of rest and a seven-inning scoreless streak. </p>
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