Archive for May, 2007
Weekly preview: AL’s top teams battle
Playoff baseball in May? Dayn Perry says the Red Sox-Indians match-up might just be an ALCS preview.
Posted: May 27th, 2007.
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Twins 4, Blue Jays 2
Carlos Silva broke a four-game losing streak, Justin Morneau homered and drove in three runs, and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on Sunday.
Silva (3-5) allowed six hits and struck out three in 7 1-3 innings, and the Twins won at home for just the third time in eight games.
A.J. Burnett (5-4) [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2007.
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MVP Morneau homers, drives in three
Carlos Silva broke a four-game losing streak, Justin Morneau homered and drove in three runs, and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on Sunday.
Silva (3-5) allowed six hits and struck out three in 7 1-3 innings, and the Twins won at home for just the third time in eight games.
A.J. Burnett (5-4) [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2007.
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Snider Getting Ready to Return to Lineup
Toronto Blue Jays first round draft pick Travis Snider is currently recovering from a bruised thumb that occurred during the Lugnuts recent road trip to Wisconsin. The injury is not severe enough to put him on the disabled list, but it recently has put his status at day to day.
Posted: May 27th, 2007.
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Blue Jays 9, Twins 8, 13 innings
The Minnesota Twins were finally out of relievers, and rallies. Lyle Overbay ended an exhausting game by waiting for the right pitch and driving in the winner for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Overbay hit a two-out, two-strike single in the top of the 13th on Saturday night, totaling four RBIs to lift Toronto to a 9-8 [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2007.
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Overbay’s RBI single lifts Jays past Twins in 13
Lyle Overbay drove in four runs, including a two-out, two-strike single in the top of the 13th inning that gave the Toronto Blue Jays a 9-8 victory over the Minnesota Twins on a back-and-forth Saturday night.
Overbay’s two-run homer in the first greeted Twins starter Ramon Ortiz, who had another rough outing. Overbay sent Matt Guerrier [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2007.
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Fast-healing Halladay set for Thursday start
Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay will return to the rotation next week and come off the disabled list earlier than originally expected.
Manager John Gibbons said before Saturday’s game at Minnesota that Halladay will start at home on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox, one day less than three weeks since he had his appendix [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2007.
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Thomas passes Gehrig, McGriff on HR list
Torii Hunter followed a two-out fielding error by Toronto reliever Scott Downs with an RBI single in the seventh inning, sending the Minnesota Twins to a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays on Friday night.
Toronto’s Frank Thomas went deep for the second straight day, evening it at 3 in the sixth with home run No. [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2007.
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Twins 4, Blue Jays 3
Torii Hunter followed a two-out fielding error by Toronto reliever Scott Downs with an RBI single in the seventh inning, sending the Minnesota Twins to a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays on Friday night.
Toronto’s Frank Thomas went deep for the second straight day, evening it at 3 in the sixth with home run No. [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2007.
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Blue Jays’ Halladay throws simulated game
Toronto Blue Jays’ ace Roy Halladay threw 65 pitches in a simulated game in Minnesota on Friday, continuing his comeback from an appendectomy that sent him to the disabled list two weeks ago.
Halladay said he felt good after throwing for the first time since the surgery. The 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner said he [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2007.
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