Cleveland (86-72) has a one-game lead over Detroit (85-73) with four games to play. The Guardians also have the tiebreaker by taking the season series.
The Blue Jays have lost six of their last seven games after a 7-1 defeat to the Red Sox at Rogers Centre on Wednesday, while the Yankees won their fourth straight to tie Toronto in the race for the American League East.
The sudden escalator outage, which nearly caused the first lady to fall over, was one of at least three snafus Trump, 79, noticed while he was in the building to address world leaders and diplomats at the UN General Assembly in New York.