Everything is going to be just fine, the Yankees keep saying. This is just a little lull that will end soon, they’ve been predicting. Oh, really? The losses still are piling up and the Yankees now are a second-place ballclub.

For the first time in nearly three months, the Yankees have fallen out of first place altogether. Thursday night’s 8-5 loss in Toronto capped a four-game sweep by the division-leading Blue Jays and dropped the Yankees into a tie for second place in the American League East.