Offense Stays Hot as Yankees Sweep Blue Jays Thunder and lightning interrupted another offensive barrage from the scorching hot Yankees" offense Wednesday afternoon, but not before it did enough damage to beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-0. The game was called in the middle of the seventh inning. Toronto's Ricky Romero (8-6) fell behind, 4-0, in the first inning and ultimately gave up 6 runs and 12 hits in six innings at Yankee Stadium. The day began with sweltering temperatures, the ballpark air heavy. But thunderclouds threatened, and the game started after a 51-minute lightning delay. In the seventh, more lightning and rain forced another delay, this one for 58 minutes. But by then the damage by the Yankees" offense had been done. The team extended its franchise-best streak of consecutive games of scoring at least three runs to 42 with a four-run first off Romero. The Yankees pounded Romero from the second pitch of the game, which Derek Jeter drove off the right-field wall for a double. Jeter was driven in by a single to right by Nick Swisher. Then Mark Teixeira hit a two-run home run into the Toronto bullpen in left to make it 3-0 after 10 pitches. The team is 40-2 this season when scoring more than three runs, and Yankees Manager Joe Girardi commented on his team's record stretch before the game. "It's still amazing," Girardi said. You expect to score runs with the club, and the home runs we hit. But, I mean, there are going to be days when the pitchers throw the ball extremely well, but our guys have done a good job at just finding ways to score. The Yankees made it 4-0 in the first inning when Andruw Jones's single drove in Robinson Cano, who had doubled to extend his hitting streak to 21 games. Dewayne Wise, starting in center field for Curtis Granderson, who received the day off, drove in a fifth run in the fourth with a grounds-rule double and added another run batted in in the sixth. Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda's splitter was sharp and his command with it was precise. Fifteen of his first 19 outs were either by strikeout or groundout. He did not issue a walk in seven shutout innings, the fifth time this season he has thrown at least seven scoreless innings. Kuroda (9-7) had been shaky in his last two outings, allowing 11 runs in 13 innings after giving up only nine runs in his previous seven starts. He glided through Toronto's banged-up lineup. On Monday, the Toronto slugger Jose Bautista hurt his wrist on a swing. And in the third inning Wednesday, Toronto took another hit: the Blue Jays" third baseman Brett Lawrie was injured after leaping into the concrete-floored photographers" well along the third-base line while going for a foul pop. He left the game, and X-rays on his right ankle were negative. But the symbolism was fitting: Toronto limped out of town after receiving a battering in this three-game series. The Blue Jays were outscored, 19-4, and outhit, 30-17. It was the Yankees who brought all the thunder. Alex Rodriguez started at third base for the Yankees after two consecutive games as the designated hitter while dealing with a stiff neck. The Yankees" injured reliever Mariano Rivera rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday morning.