Blue Jays held to 2 hits behind Dickey in Bronx

NEW YORK — Carlos Beltran and Nathan Eovaldi continued their recent hot streaks, while the Yankees’ bullpen was stingy as usual as the Yanks beat the Blue Jays, 6-0, and pulled back to .500 for the first time since April 14.

Eovaldi shut down the Blue Jays’ lineup for six-plus shutout frames, striking out five and at one point setting down 11 consecutive Toronto batters. The Jays only mustered two hits off him, the last of which led off the third inning. The Yankees’ offense didn’t do too much to back Eovaldi up, notching just three hits while he was in the game, but Beltran had two RBIs, one of which coming on a fourth-inning home run, and New York broke it open with a pair of runs in both the seventh and eighth.

Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had an impressive outing of his own, too, but well-timed Yankees hits chased him from the game after 6 2/3 innings. He surrendered only five hits and struck out seven en route in the loss.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDBack to square one: After a less-than-stellar April that left the Yankees as many as eight games below .500 on May 5, they clawed their way back to an even record at 22-22. A lot of that success has been aided by Beltran’s hot streak. Since the Yankees’ May 6 win over Boston, Beltran is 20-for-64 with six home runs and 19 RBIs, including a home run and two RBIs Tuesday night.

Another solid six: Eovaldi, just one start removed from a dazzling six-inning, one-hit win in Arizona, one-upped himself vs. Toronto, coming in for one batter in the seventh before handing the game …

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