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Rain gives Blue Jays extra day to ponder
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CLEVELAND — The rain washed out Sunday's game, giving the Toronto Blue Jays another 24 hours or so to try to figure out whatever has become of their bats.
Maybe the Jays should plan a team excursion to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to see whether that might rekindle some passion in their dead wood.
11/05/08
7:48 PM
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Jays' Wells has broken wrist13
CLEVELAND — The bad news just keeps on coming for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The club announced Saturday that centrefielder Vernon Wells has suffered a broken left wrist and will be lost to the team for six to eight weeks.
The Blue Jays also said that relief pitcher Jeremy Accardo is suffering from a right forearm strain.
Both Wells and Accardo have been placed on the 15-day disabled list.
10/05/08
3:57 PM
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Blue Jays deflate reeling White Sox11
TORONTO — The Chicago White Sox were all dolled up and ready to go, but it was a determined Roy Halladay who left the visitors with nothing more than deflated egos.
In an unorthodox attempt to inject some mojo into their slumping offence, the White Sox erected a tawdry shrine in their clubhouse before Sunday's game. The shrine included inflatable female dolls posing with the team's bats.
04/05/08
8:28 PM
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No easy solutions for struggling Blue Jays14
BOSTON — A trade.
That would be the ultimate way to shake the Toronto Blue Jays out of their tepid offensive ways, for sure. The problem, as general manager J.P. Ricciardi says, is that the only thing anybody ever wants from him is a starting pitcher.
"And there's no way I want to give up any of them right now," Ricciardi said Tuesday.
Not that he thinks his position players are, well, stiffs. Far from it.
30/04/08
11:44 PM
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Blue Jays snap six-game losing skid23
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Scott Rolen provided the power and Alex Rios the legs, and together they helped the Toronto Blue Jays snap a six-game losing streak.
Rolen homered and drove in two runs, Alex Rios collected four hits and scored three times and the Blue Jays defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Sunday.
Rios, who raised his average to .330, scored the go-ahead run in the fifth from first base on Rolen's single to left.
27/04/08
6:33 PM
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Offence lets Blue Jays down again15
KANSAS CITY — Credit them this: the Toronto Blue Jays are aware of the fact that they could be in the process of costing manager John Gibbons his job and Vernon Wells said Saturday night that he's pretty much had it with running managers out of town.
Jim Fregosi, Buck Martinez, Carlos Tosca — and, geez, we haven't even got around to the hitting coaches, yet.
26/04/08
10:54 PM
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Blue Jays recall Lind from Syracuse1
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Adam Lind, who was hitting .356 with three home runs and 15 RBIs for Triple-A Syracuse, was recalled Saturday by the Toronto Blue Jays and started in left field against the Kansas City Royals.
The 24-year-old Lind was the Blue Jays' third-round pick in 2004 out of the University of South Alabama. He had a .593 slugging percentage and .418 on-base percentage with Syracuse.
He hit .
26/04/08
5:47 PM
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Tigers get away with easy win14
TORONTO — The police met the Toronto Blue Jays after their game at the Rogers Centre Monday.
Although it could be argued that the Jays' 5-1 demotion at the hands of the visiting Detroit Tigers constituted a criminal act, the visit of the constabulary served a different purpose.
The baseball team needed to get out of town fast.
21/04/08
8:35 PM
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Jays cut Thomas, cut down Tigers20
TORONTO — That's some transition the Toronto Blue Jays made Sunday: from the Importance of Being Frank to living the A.J. Burnett Experience.
From drama to comedy. From seeing prospective Hall of Famer Frank Thomas walk out the clubhouse door to standing on the field behind a pitcher who never ceases to amaze and confound — and that's only what he does to himself.
20/04/08
8:53 PM
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Blue Jays complete sweep of Rangers16
ARLINGTON, TEX. — B.J. Ryan burst out of the centre-field bullpen like a sprinter out of the starting blocks and made his way to the mound in the 10th inning.
The Toronto Blue Jays' burly left-handed closer had been waiting a long time for this moment, so he could be forgiven for being a tad anxious.
13/04/08
9:53 PM
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Halladay dominates Rangers1
ARLINGTON, TEX. — John Gibbons mused earlier this season that the short and sweet stroke of Aaron Hill was just too good for him to remain a bottom of the batting order all season.
Just 11 games into the regular-season schedule the Jays' second baseman is starting to prove his boss right.
Hitting out of the No.
12/04/08
11:58 PM
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Accardo lit up again2
TORONTO — Another sloppy performance by a starting pitcher and another ninth-inning letdown from closer Jeremy Accardo and suddenly that three-game, weekend sweep of the Boston Red Sox is way, way in the Toronto Blue Jays' rear-view mirror.
The Oakland Athletics scored four ninth-inning runs last night en route to a 6-3 win over the Blue Jays, hanging Accardo with the loss for the second night in a row.
09/04/08
10:54 PM
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Ryan throws perfect inning
TAMPA, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays closer B.J. Ryan finished his rehab assignment with class A Dunedin Wednesday night with a perfect inning against Tampa.
Ryan struck out two and threw 10 of his 13 pitches for strikes.
"I move the ball around better, both sides of the plate tonight," Ryan said, "I had some pretty good sliders. The third time with a day off in between I felt pretty good.
09/04/08
10:07 PM
500 fans cut off6
TORONTO — After close to 100 fans were ejected from Tuesday night's game at the Rogers Centre for alcohol-related issues, the Toronto Blue Jays will not sell alcohol in the 500 Level or the 200 Level outfield seats during the three remaining $2 Tuesday promotions.
Blue Jays president and chief executive officer Paul Godfrey said yesterday that the team will also have enhanced "pat-down" security at entry gates.
09/04/08
6:42 PM
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A's go on the offensive26
TORONTO — Starting pitching had been a nice constant for the Toronto Blue Jays this young major-league season — until last night.
Unpredictable right-hander A.J. Burnett could find little solace in his first start at the Rogers Centre in 2008 and neither could the Jays as the Oakland Athletics took a 9-8 see-saw affair in which the hitters definitely had the leg up on the pitchers.
09/04/08
12:21 AM
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