Tex punctuates last road HR with first bat flip

TORONTO — If Monday’s game at Rogers Centre was Mark Teixeira’s final road contest, it certainly was one for the memory books.

The veteran Yankees slugger made his presence felt in a thrilling, come-from-behind, 7-5 victory over the Blue Jays.

In a game filled with energy after a pair of benches-clearing incidents, with much at stake for both sides, the normally quiet veteran expressed all of his emotion after hitting a game-tying home run to lead off the top of the ninth against Jason Grilli in the Yankees’ five-run frame.

Teixeira turned around a 93-mph four-seam fastball, and flipped his bat emphatically while trotting around the bases. Grilli, no stranger to emotion himself, said a few words to Teixeira, but that didn’t affect the first baseman as he savored the moment.

“He might have,” Teixeira said when asked if he noticed Grilli saying something to him. “He might have. I was like, ‘Sorry, the ball went a long way.'”

Teixeira’s homer was No. 408, passing …

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