Bring on October.
The Yankees continued their rampage through the American League, tossing aside the Blue Jays 6-0 yesterday in a game that was called after seven innings. Only the rain was able to put Toronto out of its misery.
The victory completed a sweep of a team once considered a legitimate threat to the division title.
Not anymore. Not after the Yankees won for the sixth time in seven games and scored five or more runs for the 10th game in a row.
And though veterans of The Bronx tend to shrug off long winning streaks and huge division leads, newcomers don’t.
“I’ve never seen anything like it, let alone been a part of anything like it,” Dewayne Wise said. “Not even close.”
Wise has been one of the unexpected reasons the Yankees have maintained such a torrid output. Yesterday, filling in because Curtis Granderson got the day off in center, Wise had two hits and a pair of RBIs.
“That’s how you win,” Derek Jeter said. “You’ve gotta get contributions from everyone. All the teams I’ve been a part of have contributions from a lot of different guys … sometimes more than 25.”
Jayson Nix added a pair of hits and scored twice.
“We’ve gotten contributions from so many different people,” manager Joe Girardi said. “It makes it difficult to get through the lineup, and I think it wears on pitchers.”
Jeter got the offense going, opening the bottom of the first with a double and scoring when Nick Swisher followed with a single to right. Mark Teixeira followed with his 19th homer of the season and Andruw Jones added a run-scoring single to give the Yankees a 4-0 lead in the first.
The Yankees are just 6-5 this year when they’ve scored three runs in the first, but Hiroki Kuroda made sure that early lead held up.
The right-hander tossed seven shutout innings, bouncing back from consecutive subpar outings.
He was able to shake off a 51-minute delay because of ominous weather to start the game and a two-base throwing error by Alex Rodriguez in the first. Pitching in temperatures that soared over 100 degrees on the field, Kuroda (9-7) didn’t allow more than one baserunner in any of his seven innings.
Ricky Romero, who dropped his fifth straight start, wasn’t as good — or as fortunate. The Blue Jays have been shut out in each of his last three appearances and he fell to 8-6.
Now, the Yankees head to Oakland and Seattle for a seven-game trip before returning home to face Boston.
“We’ve jumped on people early. We’ve come from behind late in games. We’ve tacked on” said Girardi, who added he didn’t manage any differently because of the impending bad weather throughout the game. “This is probably as good as we’ve played.”
And they show no signs of slowing down, even if they aren’t checking the standings daily.
“Probably in Boston,” Jeter said of the last time he saw the standings. “They’re sort of right there in front of your face. But it doesn’t make a difference.’’
It will if their advantage keeps growing.
“No lead is big enough,” Russell Martin said of their position in the AL East. “I think we’re just gonna keep pushing and try to win as many games as possible. It would be nice to win 100 games. If we do that, we should be right where we need to be.”
Probably right where they are now: first place.
dan.martin@nypost.com