Rotation, Beltran spark Yankees’ turnaround

NEW YORK — After more than a month of climbing, the Yankees have finally worked their way out of a hole and back onto flat ground.

With Tuesday night’s 6-0 win over the Blue Jays, the Yankees are 22-22, .500 for the first time since April 14, when a loss to these very same Blue Jays knocked them to 4-4. Since that loss, the Yankees fell far, dropping as far as eight games below .500 on May 5. But the Yankees have turned everything around, winning 13 of their past 18 — including six straight — with a run differential of plus-15 over that span.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi, both proud of his team’s recent success and aware that Tuesday marked the first of 20 straight games without an off-day, said he hopes that this hot streak spawns another.

“It means we’re playing well right now,” Girardi said. “We were struggling mightily for a while there, and we seemed to find it in that stretch of 20. Hopefully it continues in this stretch of 20.”

One thing that has really sparked the Yankees’ climb back to .500 and third place in the American League East has been starting pitching, especially over the season-high winning streak the team is on. Since May 18, Yankees starters have a 1.76 ERA and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 47-to-9, catalyzing the team’s win streak. Perhaps the hottest …

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