TORONTO -- Toronto Blue Jays catcher J. ED Belfour .P. Arencibia had a good day at the plate, but it was what he did behind it that satisfied him the most. Arencibia had three hits, including a two-run homer, in the Blue Jays 8-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Wednesday. Kelly Johnson, Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista also homered for the Blue Jays, who ended a three-game losing string. Arencibias offensive contribution was key, but the catcher was happier with the way he worked with right-hander Kyle Drabek, who pitched seven strong innings to end his four-start losing streak. "The biggest thing for me was Kyle, how he controlled his pitches," said Arencibia, who was a triple short of hitting for the cycle. "To me that was the best thing." Drabek (3-4) held the Yankees to three hits and one run. He did walk four but he struck out five. It was his first win since April 15 against Baltimore. "For me the most part me and J.P. were able to get ahead (in the count)," Drabek said. "Thats what helped me out. I got behind in the count some but today I was just able to keep throwing strikes and getting the out." He appreciated the offensive support. Johnsons homer in the seventh was the 100th of his career and Encarnacions team-leading 13th homer of the season drove in three runs in the third. "It was great," Drabek said. "Not only did they score all those runs but they were placed perfectly in the infield and outfield for me which saved some hits too. It was nice." Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda (3-5) gave up seven runs and eight hits, including three home runs, in five innings plus one batter. In the first meeting of the season between the American League East rivals, the Blue Jays (20-18) snapped a three-game string of losses while the Yankees (20-17) lost their second in a row. "(Drabek) has good stuff and when his sinkers that good its going to be hard not to hit the ball into the ground," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "And you have to make him get the ball up and we just werent able to do it." The Yankees run came on first baseman Mark Teixeiras 1,500th career hit in the sixth, a single that scored Robinson Cano. Drabek said he worked at throwing his sinker higher. "Really it was just trying to throw it higher and allow it to sink back down," he said. "I think my last two starts Ive been trying to throw it more on the black and not as high and thats when it tends to bounce." Arencibia put the Blue Jays into a 2-0 lead with his fourth homer of the season on a 3-2 pitch with two out in the second inning, scoring Brett Lawrie. Lawrie played after appealing a four-game suspended handed down Wednesday for his actions after he was called out on strikes in the ninth inning of Tuesdays 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay. Lawrie threw his helmet to the ground and it hit umpire Bill Miller on the bounce. Miller was the umpire at third base on Wednesday. Encarnacion hit a three-run home run in the third to put the Blue Jays into a 5-0 lead. It scored Eric Thames who doubled down the right-field line with two out and Bautista who walked. Arencibia, after hitting a double to right with one out in the fourth, slid home with Torontos sixth run on Johnsons single to left. Bautista led off the home fifth with his ninth homer of the season. "I thought (Kuroda) left his slider a little bit up to Arencibia and he got a fastball up to Encarnacion and those were the two problems," Girardi said. "At times he threw the ball really well but when he got a ball up they didnt miss it." Johnson hit his eighth homer of the season against Clay Rapada in the seventh with his eighth homer of the season to bump the lead to 8-1. "Seven strong innings by Kyle and very good offensive night up and down the order," Jays manager John Farrell said. "J.P. had a very good night at the plate and got us ahead with a two-run homer. 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Still, he was starting to get a little anxious. Heisey finally got on the board Saturday, giving Cincinnati the lead with his first homer of the season and four relievers made it stand up in a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A rematch against the defending champion Mavericks showed how far the Sacramento Kings have come from a disastrous game in Dallas in Keith Smarts sixth game as head coach. Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton each scored 17 points to help the Kings end a 10-game losing streak against the Mavericks with a 110-97 victory on Friday night. Rookie Isaiah Thomas added 14 points, including three 3-pointers in the third quarter, for the Kings, who last beat Dallas on Jan. 11, 1999. The worst of those losses came in the first meeting earlier this season when the defending champion Mavericks won 99-60 in Dallas less than two weeks after Smart replaced Paul Westphal as coach. "I told the guys we would not be the same team when we see Dallas again," Smart said. "I just knew with the work Id put in with my staff we wouldnt be the same team. We may lose the game, but we would not be the same team that showed up that time and only scored 23 points in the first half. I just knew wed be better than that." That was clearly the case this game as Sacramento led for the final 45 minutes and topped 50 per cent shooting for the second straight game and fourth time this season. DeMarcus Cousins added 15 points in his return from food poisoning and the Kings had seven players reach double figures in the win. "We did a good job of playing as a team tonight. Everything was really clicking," Thomas said. "It was just an overall great team win. If we play together, hit the open guy and make the extra pass, we always play a lot better. That kind of motivates us to play even better defence. We just have to be consistent." Jason Terry scored 23 points to lead the Mavericks, who have lost six straight road games for the first time since November 1999. Dallas has lost seven of nine games overall to fall into seventh place in the Western Conference. "Its time for change," Terry said. "You can only look at something for so long and youre getting the same result so at what point are you going to change or are you going to ride it out. ... Were not a team right now. It shows so until we become a team and play together on both ends of the court, were not going to be very good." With victories over New Orleans and Dallas, the Kings are off to a strong staart to a nine-game homestand that is the longest in franchise history. [url=http://www.worldsocceronlineshop.com/Fc-Barcelona-Dani-Alves-Jersey.html]Da... Alves Barcelona Jersey. The homestand started a night after the City Council approved a plan to help finance an estimated $391 million arena to keep the Kings in town for at least another 30 years. That has given Kings fans something to cheer about for a change for a last-place team that has missed the playoffs for the past five seasons. Sacramento pulled away in the third quarter against a Dallas team that had lost the previous night in Phoenix. Thomas hit a pair of 3-pointers around a pretty drive from Evans to extend the lead to 78-61 midway through the third. Sacramento led by 16 after three quarters and coasted to the victory. Francisco Garcias 3-pointer midway through the fourth extended the lead to 102-82 and allowed the Kings to become the second team to reach the century mark against Dallas in the past 21 games. "We got it handed to us in Dallas," forward Donte Greene said. "We were pretty upset about that. It was good to give it back to them." The Kings started off much better than they did in Dallas on Jan. 14, when they were held to a franchise-low 23 points in the first half of the stingiest defensive game in Dallas history. The Kings took advantage of turnovers to get out on the break early and matched their first-half scoring total from January in just over 6 minutes as Evans two free throws gave Sacramento a 23-10 lead with 5:54 left in the quarter. "Its the thing that has been biting us lately, the turnovers, and we have to do a better job of taking care of the ball," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "We had early turnovers and we never got out of that hole." The Kings led by nine after one and were up 54-44 at the half after Marcus Thorntons runner in the lane with 3.8 seconds left. They topped their total from January with 9:44 left in the third when Cousins made two free throws to make it 61-51. Notes: Greene got his third start of the season for the Kings to match up with Dirk Nowitzki and scored 11 points. Nowitzki finished with 13 on 5-for-13 shooting. ... The Mavericks wrap up a stretch of three games in three nights on Saturday at Golden State. ... 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