Capped by an Andres Gimenez three-run homer, Cleveland Indians raced to a seven-run fifth inning and ended up routing the New York Yankees 11-3 on Saturday. With the loss, the Yankees have hit a slump in their run for the Major League Baseball playoffs.

Rising to the occasion, Franmil Reyes hit an RBI double off Albert Abreu in the big fifth inning and a two-run homer in the sixth against Andrew Heaney.

However, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez failed to catch a foul popup that led to the massive fifth inning score. “Definitely a play there that I’m used to making, especially this year. I thought I’ve been very good catching those flies,” Sánchez said through a translator, according to Associated Press inputs. “I think this is the first one I missed this year but just a bad read there with the fly ball.”

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Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the foul popup was a play Sánchez had to make.

‘He just missed it,” Boone said. “Obviously, any time a popup to the catcher right behind home plate, it has that backspin, so it kind of comes back but catchers are usually prepared for that.

“Gary’s actually usually good with popups. I think he probably got a little too upright and didn’t move enough as it kind of worked its way back to the field but yeah you got to make that play.”

Meanwhile, Yu Cheng hit a two-run homer in the second inning off Luis Gil (1-1) and added a two-run double in the fifth against Abreu to put the Indians ahead. In the eighth inning, José Ramrez blasted his 34th home run against Heaney.

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New York has 13 games remaining and started the day a half-game ahead of Toronto in the AL wild-card race. The Yankees fell a half-game behind Boston in the wild-card race.

New York has lost 14 of its last 21 games after a 13-game winning streak. Giancarlo Stanton and Luke Voit blasted late home runs for the Mets. Gallo was removed from the game after the third inning due to neck stiffness.

Aaron Civale (11-4) made his third start after returning from a two-month absence due to an injured middle finger on his right hand. He tossed six shutout innings of four-hit ball.

After surrendering five home runs in Friday’s series opener, Cleveland is 72-74 and has won only three times in 11 games.

With inputs from the Associated Press