Tag: toronto blue jays

  • Blue Jays CF Wells to have wrist surgery (AP)

    Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Vernon Wells will have surgery next week to repair damaged cartilage in his left wrist. The team announced Tuesday that Wells is expected to be ready in time for spring training. Wells, who is entering the third season of a seven-year, $126-million contract extension, hit .260 with 15 home runs and 66 RBIs in 158 games last season.

  • Halladay’s 1-hitter ends Yanks’ run at 7 (AP)

    New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (27) walks to the mound to take the ball from relief pitcher Michael Dunn(notes), third from left, after Dunn loaded the bases in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. The Yankees lost to the Blue Jays 6-0.

    After three straight subpar starts, Roy Halladay was back to being dominant Friday. Halladay pitched a one-hitter to snap a three-start losing streak and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 6-0, ending New York's winning streak at seven games. "If we gave up one (run), we wouldn't have won tonight," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, whose team was shut out for the fifth time…

  • Byrd pitches Red Sox over Blue Jays 7-0 (AP)

    Boston Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis(notes) looks back to see he has been called out at second base after being tagged by Toronto Blue Jays' Marco Scutaro(notes) trying to stretch a single into a double during the seventh inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009.

    Paul Byrd, making his first major league start since last September, pitched six shutout innings and the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game sweep with a 7-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. The win was the sixth in seven games for Boston, which opened the day 2 1/2 games ahead of Texas in the AL's wild-card race.