Roy Halladay gave up nine hits and five runs over six innings as the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night. The White Sox came away with a 6-5 victory. The Jays are still up two games to one in the series as they swept the double header on Tuesday after being rained out on Monday.

Alex Rios provided both runs for the Jays in the eighth inning when he hit a two-run homerun. Lyle Overbay then added a rbi single in the ninth and the Jays then scored another run on Marco Scutaro rbi double. The Jays weren’t done after the Scutaro double as Jose Bautista grounded out to shortstop to score one more run and draw the Jays within one run.

Good job by the team at the attempted comeback even though they did fall short by one run. Blue Jays Blog

The Toronto Blue Jays were in line to sweep the Detroit Tigers in a four game series however the Jays allowed five runs in the eighth inning and the Tigers came from behind to win 5-1. It was still a good series for the Jays however as they won three out of four games and are now at 62-59 on the season.

Jason Frasor was the relief pitcher that was charged with all five runs in the eighth inning. Frasor took the loss and is now 1-2 on the season. Starting pitcher Jesse Litsch threw seven shutout innings to get a no decision.  Litsch threw the ball very well as he only gave up four hits in his seven innings of action.

The one run for the Blue Jays came in the fifth inning when Lyle Overbay hit a solo home run off of Armando Galararraga. Galaragga dominated the Blue Jays lineup all afternoon.

The Blue Jays will now head to Boston for a weekend series. If they want any chance at getting back into the playoff race, they need to sweep the Red Sox and go on a nice long winning streak. I think that is just too much to ask for however.  What do you think?

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The second straight day the Toronto Blue Jays have lost to the Tampa Bay Rays.  On Wednesday afternoon, the Blue Jays lost by the score of 3-2 and finished up the two game series with the Rays.  After winning the first game of the series, the Jays lost the next two and lost the series 1-2.

Scott Richmond gave up seven hits and three runs in 5 1/3 innings to take the loss.  Richmond gave up a rbi triple to Carl Crawford in the first inning, and in the fourth inning a solo home run to Carlos Pena and a run on a ground out.  Richmond didn’t throw that badly really, there just wasn’t that much run support by the offense.

The Blue Jays two runs both came in the first inning when Lyle Overbay hit a two run home run.  Alex Rios was the runner that scored on the long bomb.  Overbay now has seven home runs and 41 rbi on the season.

The Blue Jays will now be off on Thursday as they fly to Texas to begin a weekend series against the Rangers.  I should mention that I will be out of town until August 11th, so I doubt there will be very many updates if any done on the blog.  If you are a fan that would like to do some game recaps, please use the contact us link at the top of the blog and we can talk!

The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles once again on Thursday and this time it was by the score of 7-1.  It was the second straight game the Jays have limited the Orioles to only one run.  They held them to one run and won earlier in the day 5-1.  After losing the first game of the four game series, they were able to come back and win the next three games to win the series.

Roy Halladay pitched seven innings to record his 12th win of the season.  Halladay allowed seven hits but only one run while striking out six batters.  A nice quality start for Halladay which we have all grown accustomed to.  Brian Tallet and Jason Frasor both tossed hitless innings in the 8th and 9th to finish up the game on the mound.

Lyle Overbay and Greg Zaun led the way at the plate as both players finished with two rbi each.  Marco Scutaro and Brad Wilkerson both had one rbi as well to help out the offense.

The Blue Jays will now welcome the Seattle Mariners into town beginning on Friday night.  Get out there and support your Jays!  Blue Jays Baseball Blog

The Toronto Blue Jays scored three additional runs and defeated the Baltimore Orioles 5-1.  They played the game early this morning and then will play the originally scheduled game shortly after the first one is over.  It was nice to see the Jays come out and score runs right away and put the game out of reach.

Marco Scutaro, Lyle Overbay, and John McDonald all had one rbi each in the game.  The other two runs that the Jays scored were unearned.

A.J. Burnett was awarded the win after he threw five innings on Wednesday night.  Burnett is now 11-9 with a 4.73 era.  Jesse Carlson, Shawn Camp, and Scott Downs all pitched in relief for the Jays and all did a good job.

We will be back with an update after the afternoon game is over.  Go Jays!

The Toronto Blue Jays were down 5-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning but they scored two runs to come back and defeat the Baltimore Orioles by the score of 6-5.  The two run comeback completed a three game sweep of the Orioles and improved the Blue Jays record to 45-47.

Lyle Overbay tied the game in the ninth inning with a rbi sac fly and then Adam Lind hit the game winning run with a rbi single.  Little guy David Eckstein led the team with two rbi while Joe Inglett, Alex Rios, Overbay, and Lind all contributed with one rbi each.  Great job by the offense for coming through when they needed to!

Shawn Camp who pitched the top of the ninth inning notched the win in the game and is now 2-1 on the season.  Blue Jays starting pitcher John Parrish lasted seven innings as he gave up six hits and three runs.  It was a good quality start out of Parrish as he got the no decision.  The two relief pitchers after Parrish left the were not good however.  Brian Tallet gave up one run and then Brandon League gave up another run.  The offense really bailed out Tallet and League.

The Blue Jays will now wait for the Yankees to get into town and they will start a three game series on Friday.

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The Toronto Blue Jays used a 7-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night to take two out of three games from the Reds in the series.  It was a good series win for the Blue Jays and they are now 38-42 on the season as they inch closer and closer to getting back to the .500 mark.

Jesse Litsch started the game for the Blue Jays and pitched a great game as he lasted eight innings and picked up the win.  Litsch only gave up three hits and one run while striking out six batters.  It was a very good quality start out of Litsch, exactly what the Blue Jays were hoping for.

Brian Tallet pitched the ninth inning for the Jays and gave up one hit and one walk in the inning before finishing off the Reds.

Scott Rolen went 3-4 and finished the game with three rbi including a two run home run in the second inning.  Lyle Overbay and Vernon Wells both had a good game as well as the both went 1-4 with two rbi in the game.  It was a very well rounded game for the Blue Jays at the plate.

The Blue Jays will not take on the Atlanta Braves in a interleague matchup starting on Friday.  The Blue Jays will have to play well to get a series win against the Braves in my opinion.

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The Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds played extra innings on Wednesday night and the Blue Jays came up just short as they lost 6-5.  Jesse Carlson gave up a sac fly to Jay Bruce in the top of the tenth inning that scored Norris Hopper.  The run was actually charged to Brian Wolfe and he took the loss on the the game.

Blue Jays starting pitcher Roy Halladay wasn’t his usual self as he only pitched six innings.  Halladay gave up nine hits and four runs while walking four and striking out seven batters.  Ken Griffey Jr. hit a two run home run off of Halladay in the first inning and it was more less downhill after that for Halladay.

The Blue Jays offense did score five un-answered runs to tie the game at 5-5 but they just couldn’t get that one last run in the game to pull out the come from behind victory.  Adam Lind and Joe Inglett both hit two run home runs for the Blue Jays.  Marco Scutaro singled in Lyle Overbay in the sixth inning for the final run and rbi for the Blue Jays in the sixth inning.

The Blue Jays will try to win the rubber game of the series on Thursday.  Jesse Litsch will take the mound for the Blue Jays.

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Once again the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Milwaukee Brewers.  On Thursday afternoon it was a 8-7 game that set the Blue Jays back.  The Blue Jays were swept in the three game series as they were outplayed every game.  I will give the team some credit as they did score six runs in the top of the ninth inning but a loss is a loss in the end.

A.J. Burnett fell to 6-7 on the season after only pitching five innings and giving up eight hits and eight runs.  Burnett had a problem as he gave up four walks and two home runs in the game.  He really should have known to keep the ball down against the hot hitting Brewers.

Brian Tallet and B.J. Ryan were able to hold the Brewers at eight runs as they pitched the final three innings without letting the Brewers score.  Good job by those two relievers.  To bad Burnett but the team in such a big hole to begin with.

Alex Rios had a rbi single in the eighth inning that scored Lyle Overbay for the Blue Jays first run of the game.  And then in the ninth inning it was Overbay going deep for a two run home run before Joe Inglett hit a grand slam to score four more runs.  The Blue Jays were still down one run however and ended up losing by that one run.

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I know exactly what the Blue Jays fans are thinking right now.  How in the hell do you not score one run in the 10th inning when you have the bases loaded with zero outs.  Pretty much put the ball in play and you should score a run unless you get a hard hit ball directly to the first basemen like Lyle Overbay hit and all over a sudden you have two outs in the inning.

That wasn’t the end of it however as the next batter walked, and then David Eckstein was at the plate with the bases loaded and two outs with the Blue Jays still down one run to the Seattle Mariners.  Eckstein however flew out to center field and the Blue Jays ended up losing 3-2.

It was like the Jays just couldn’t get over the hump tonight.  If they really want to be a contender that is the type of the game have to pull out and get the win.

Jason Frasor took the loss for the Blue Jays as he gave up the suicide squeeze play in the top of the 10th inning to the Blue Jays.  Jesse Litsch had started the game and tossed six innings while giving up ten hits and two runs.

The two Blue Jays runs came on a rbi double by Overbay and then a infield rbi single by Vernon Wells.  Other then that the Blue Jays bats were pretty cold in the game.  They were not able to come up with a run or take advantage of the Mariners two errors.  That is something they have to start doing.