Wang then threw a ball to Rolen before Posada motioned to the dugout that something was wrong with the right-hander. Girardi and assistant trainer Steve Donohue came out to the mound, and Wang headed for the dugout after a short discussion.

Rios added an RBI single off David Robertson that gave the Blue Jays a 5-3 lead.

Toronto’s three-run inning put Halladay in position to become the majors’ first 11-game winner but the right-hander never looked comfortable in his first start at New York’s cozy new ballpark.

Derek Jeter hit a leadoff single in the seventh and Damon followed with a drive that landed a few rows back in right, tying it at 5.

Halladay equaled a career worst by allowing three homers over seven innings in his second start since coming off the disabled list after being sidelined with a sore groin. He is 16-5 with a 2.90 ERA in 34 games, 31 starts, against the Yankees.

“I feel like I did before,” he said. “It’s just a matter of making some poor pitches at times.”

Before the game, Jeter helped Major League Baseball commemorate the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s luckiest man speech, reading the famous line from the icon’s stirring words during a video tribute. The Yankees also placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers by Gehrig’s plaque in Monument Park and made a $25,000 donation to Major League Baseball’s “4 (diamond) ALS” initiative, an effort to raise awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — the disease that forced Gehrig out of baseball in 1939 and took his life two years later.