Didi Gregorius drove in a career-high six runs, Brian McCann hit a three-run homer in his return to Atlanta and the Yankees shook off a scoring slump to beat the Braves 15-4 on Friday night.
The Yankees scored a total of seven runs in losing three of their last four games to fall 1 ½ games behind first-place Toronto in the AL East. They scored nine runs in just the first two innings against the Braves.
Toronto beat the Tigers 5-3 Friday.