NEW YORK -- Only once has a left-handed pitcher won 20 games for the Toronto Blue Jays.J.A. Happ is getting close to becoming the second.Happ can become the first 17-game winner in the major leagues Wednesday afternoon when the Blue Jays conclude a three-game series with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.Toronto has had five pitchers get to 20 wins in team history and the only southpaw was David Wells who won 20 during the 2000 season. Like Wells, Happ is in his second stint with the Blue Jays.Happ won 19 games and made 50 starts after Toronto obtained him from the Houston Astros in a 10-player deal on July 20, 2012. After he was 11-11 with a 4.22 ERA in 2014, Toronto traded him to Seattle for outfielder Michael Saunders but last November, the Blue Jays signed him to a three-year deal following two months with the Pittsburgh Pirates.Happ has approached 20 wins by going 10-0 with a 2.66 ERA in his last 11 starts. After allowing four hits and getting seven strikeouts in seven innings during last Wednesdays 7-0 win over the Tampa Bays, he joined Roger Clemens in 1997 and Roy Halladay in 2003 as the only Toronto pitchers to have a run as good.Clemens and Halladay were 12-0 in 13 starts and both were 20-game winners. Jack Morris in 1992 and Pat Hentgen are the only other 20-game winners in Toronto history but all of those hurlers were right-handed.Hes a different pitcher, hes a better pitcher, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. Hes a new guy, he gets ground balls now, he never used to do that and that bails you out of some innings. And he also gets strikeouts.Happ can achieve two things with a win Wednesday.He can join Wells and Jimmy Key as the only Blue Jays left-handers to win 17 games. Key did it in 1987 and 1991 while Wells achieved it in 1999 and 2000.Happ can also become the fifth Blue Jay to win at least 11 straight decisions. Clemens and Halladay share the record of 15 in 1998 and 2003 respectively while Dennis Lamp won 11 straight in 1985 and Clemens did so in 1997.Two of Happs victories have been against the Yankees, who are batting .206 against him in three starts. He allowed one run and seven hits in six innings April 13 in Toronto and, May 26 in New York, Happ allowed one run and three hits in a 3-1 win.The Blue Jays will be looking to beat the Yankees for the ninth time in 12 meetings after storming back from a six-run deficit for a 12-6 victory Tuesday. After going scoreless off Michael Pineda through five innings Toronto hit four home runs off New Yorks bullpen following a 42-minute rain delay.Russell Martin, who was in a 4-for-28 slump, homered in consecutive at-bats and got the tiebreaking two-run home run in the eighth after hitting a solo shot in the sixth. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run home run, giving him 34 and 99 RBI while Troy Tulowitzki had a two-run home run among four hits.It just felt like the momentum was shifting in our direction, Martin said. When everybody gets that good feeling and is kind of anxious to get back up to the plate, its a good sign. We definitely got a little bit lucky, we got Pineda out of the game. It looked like he would have his A game today, so just got to point to the sky and thank whoevers up there for helping out.The meltdown by New Yorks bullpen pushed them 5 1/2 games out of the second wild card spot. Gary Sanchez homered twice while Pineda allowed four hits in five scoreless innings before the game changed drastically for the Yankees.Its unfortunate because Michael was really good tonight, I wouldve loved to have sent him back out there, but with what he went through with that shoulder, we just felt we couldnt do it, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. His pitch count was around 70 and it was frustrating. I was hoping it would be a quicker rain delay, but when it got to be 45 to 50 minutes, it was frustrating.The Yankees will hope there are no more drastic turnarounds against them Wednesday and hope CC Sabathia can follow Pinedas strong outing. He also will try to end a nearly two-month slump that has seen go 2-5 with a 6.41 ERA in 10 starts since June 22.He is 7-9 and two of his losses have been in games started by Happ. He allowed two unearned runs in seven innings of a 3-1 loss at New York on May 26 and two earned runs in six innings five days later in Toronto.Although Sabathia is 15-8 with a 3.20 ERA in 24 career starts against Toronto, the left-hander is 0-4 with a 3.60 ERA in his last four starts against the Blue Jays as the Yankees. While Sabathia has pitched decently in those games, New Yorks hitters have struggled by batting .189 (24-for-127) and getting two hits in 27 at-bats with runners in scoring position. 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Josh Allen Jersey .C. -- Al Jefferson joked that he feels he can score from anywhere on the court. ATLANTA -- The Tour Championship is a lot tougher than it needs to be for Justin Thomas.He was among three players at Hazeltine -- site of this years Ryder Cup -- on Monday, a clear signal that Thomas, Daniel Berger and Bubba Watson were being considered by Davis Love III as the final captains pick to be announced Sunday night after the Tour Championship.So instead of thinking only about East Lake, and possibly winning the FedEx Cup, theres a distraction.Its probably the hardest thing Ive ever had to deal with when it comes to not thinking about it, Thomas said after opening with a 68 on Thursday. Its one thing to come down the stretch of a tournament and not think about winning, but Ive just had so long to think about the Ryder Cup. And for people to say they dont think about it, I think is absurd. It enters my mind every round at some point.It could be worse.He could be Kevin Chappell, who didnt get invited at all. Neither did Kevin Kisner.Not one time have I been contacted by Davis, Chappell said matter-of-factly after a 66 to tie for the lead.Chappell has never won on the PGA Tour. He has three runner-up finishes this season in which someone simply outplayed him -- Jason Day, the worlds No. 1 player, at Bay Hill and The Players Championship; and Kisner at the RSM Classic at Sea Island, where Love is the tournament host.Was he offended that he didnt get an invite?I wasnt personally offended, Chappell said. But I disagree with having non-members practicing with the team. It sets a bad precedent for the players who thought they were on the bubble, or thought they had a chance.Kisner said he was not invited to Hazeltine. When asked if he was offended by that, he replied, Probably. He doesnt know why he wasnt asked to take part, and he wasnt inclined to ask Love for a reason.I figure hell call me when he needs me, Kisner said.Waiting to make the final pick just five days before the Ryder Cup starts might be more absurd than assembling a Ryder Cup Task Force that cooked up this idea.The plan was to make sure the Americans had the hot player available to them at the last minute. But to listen to the players -- those who received invitations and those who didnt -- makes it unclear if it matters whos hot.Love said last month in New York, after eight players qualified for his team, that he would have to pay attention to dozens of pplayers.ddddddddddddAnybody in the top 100 has to be on our radar because a guy could get hot the next two weeks and move himself to the Tour Championship and be in the running for the FedEx Cup, Love said on Aug. 29. And I get to pick him on Sunday night.So why not invite every American to Hazeltine who qualified for the Tour Championship and was not on the team?Maybe they already have been ruled out, which certainly appears to be the case with Chappell and Kisner, along with Memorial winner William McGirt, Gary Woodland, Jason Dufner and others.Love has said one awkward part of this process was making phone calls. He might be inclined to call those who didnt make the team on the same night he shared the good news with those who did. Because there is one more pick, perhaps he needs to wait on those calls.And so everyone waits.But is anyone paying attention to what happens at East Lake? Apparently not.Theres nothing I can do now, Watson said. Davis said its all about strategies and different things. Its not about my play. Its not about anybodys play. So I cant worry about that.That suggests that its not about performance, which runs counter to what Love said a month ago before the FedEx Cup playoffs began.The only thing I know that he told me -- and hes told everybody -- is that its about who matches up well. I dont know what that means, Watson said. I dont know if its about partners, if a guy matches up better with two people or a guy matches up better with three people. I dont know that. I know the same as you, except I got to see the course. I went and played a practice round. So I know a little bit more, I guess.Thomas doesnt quite understand, either. Hes just trying to play good golf at East Lake because that wont hurt. Why the invitations to play Hazeltine?Obviously there was some, or else we wouldnt have been there, he said.None of this will matter a week from today.The grandstands that Thomas and Watson saw set up across Hazeltine will be packed with fans. No one will be talking about who wasnt picked or who wasnt on the team. All that counts is whos playing and the score.Until then, Love is waiting until the last minute for a hot hand when that player could get nothing but a cold shoulder. ' ' '