Even without the presence of Frank Thomas the Toronto Blue Jays were able to defeat the Detroit Tigers in Toronto on Sunday by the score of 5-3.  With Frank Thomas getting angry for being taken out of the lineup a day early, Toronto released him leaving them short one big hitter for the game against the Tigers.  But even without Frank, the Blue Jays were able to hold their own and come out on top. 

David Eckstein had 3 RBIs with one being from his home run in the fourth inning and Alex Rios got on the board with an RBI as well giving him 12 for the year.

A.J. Burnett came out and opened for the Blue Jays pitching five innings and giving up four hits.  Jeremy Accardo was brought it to close out the game and got his fourth save of the season. 

The Blue Jays and Tigers will play once again on Monday as the Tigers try to even the series.

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The Toronto Blue Jays gave up four runs to the Oakland Athletics in the 9th inning and ended up losing the game 6-3.  What a bad way to lose a ballgame as the Blue Jays were leading heading into the 9th inning.

Jeremy Accardo allowed all four earned runs in the 9th inning and took the loss for the Blue Jays.  Accardo pitched terrible, and that is just something that you don’t want to see out of your relief pitcher.

The Blue Jays didn’t have much offense but Vernon Wells and Aaron Hill both had one RBI each.

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The Toronto Blue Jays came back and tied the game in the 8th inning but were not able to come back all the way as they fell to the Oakland Athletics by the score of 9-8.  Jeremy Accardo picked up the loss after he gave up a two out single to Kurt Suzuki and then a triple to Ryan Sweeney that scored the winning run for the Athletics.

Vernon Wells led the Blue Jays with three RBI, Frank Thomas and Aaron Hill chipped in with two RBI, and David Eckstein batted one run in.  Thomas also hit his third homerun and his third in the last three games.

A.J. Burnett got whooped up on by the Athletics hitters.  He only lasted 4.2 innings and gave up ten hits and six earned runs.  The Blue Jays were battling back from that deficit the entire game and could’t quite get over the hump.

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The Toronto Blue Jays were held in check through five innings by Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield, but in the sixth inning they finally broke through for three runs and eventually went on to win the game by the score of 6-3.

After scoring three runs in the sixth inning, the Blue Jays tacked on two runs in the seventh inning, and another insurance run in the eight inning.  Frank Thomas led the team with two RBI, while Matt Stairs, David Eckstein, Lyle Overbay, and Aaron Hill contributed with one RBI each.

Shaun Marcum picked up the win for the Blue Jays as he pitched seven innings and only gave up three hits.  One of those hits however was a three run homerun off the bat of J.D. Drew that tied the game in the seventh inning.  Other then that Marcum pitched pretty good!

Jeremy Accardo picked up the save, his second of the season.

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