Fri, 10/01/2010 - 09:51 by Rakhi
Minneapolis -- Jose Bautista ran his major league-leading home run total to 54 Thursday with two blasts, one of them a grand slam, leading Toronto past Minnesota 13-2.
The Blue Jays totaled six homers, two of them from Edwin Encarnacion, while pounding out 13 hits. Travis Snider and Jose Molina also homered and Toronto boosted its season total to 253 -- the best in the majors this season and the fourth-most in baseball history, trailing the 1997 Seattle Mariners (264), 2005 Texas Rangers (260) and 1996 Baltimore Orioles (257).
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Fri, 09/24/2010 - 01:37 by Shruti Sharma
Toronto -- Jose Bautista hit his 50th home run of the season Thursday, providing the only run in the Toronto Blue Jays' 1-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
Felix Hernandez (12-12) allowed only two hits over eight innings but the first was Bautista's first-inning, two-out blast over the wall in left field.
Hernandez walked the next two batters but then retired the next 13 before yielding a lead-off single to Travis Snider in the sixth. He also walked four and struck out five.
Toronto starter Shawn Hill (1-2) collected his first win with the Blue Jays, lasting five innings and giving up four hits and walking one. He also struck out seven. Kevin Gregg pitched the ninth and earned his 35th save.
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Thu, 08/05/2010 - 09:43 by Prince damin
New York -- Toronto outfielder Jose Bautista and Minnesota outfielder Delmon Young Wednesday shared American League Player of the Month honors for July.
Bautista displayed tremendous power in July, belting a major league-best 11 homers and sporting an AL-leading .765 slugging percentage. He drove in 29 runs and scored 20 times in 25 games.
Bautista leads the majors with 33 homers, more than twice as many as his previous season high.
Young, meanwhile, blistered opponents with a .434 batting average, including 12 doubles, six homers and 30 RBI in July. He had a pair of four-hit games in a three-game span from July 24-26.
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Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:28 by Pankaj Damin
Kansas City, Mo. -- Jose Bautista homered and drove in five runs Tuesday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays in a 13-1 rout over Kansas City.
Bautista cracked his 26th homer of the season, tops in baseball, with a man on in the first inning to set the tone for the 16-hit Jays attack.
Adam Lind also had a two-run homer for Toronto and Edwin Encarnacion had three RBI on three doubles.
The Royals had a prolific 11-hit night but only managed to put one runner across on a pinch hit by Wilson Betemit in the sixth.
Toronto jumped to a 6-0 lead after three innings and tacked on five more in the eighth and two in the ninth.
Jesse Litsch (1-4) gave up one run on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings for the win.
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Fri, 07/09/2010 - 10:21 by Rakhi
Minneapolis -- Adam Lind, Fred Lewis, Lyle Overbay, Jose Bautista and Jose Molina hit solo home runs Thursday in the Blue Jays' 8-1 win over Minnesota.
Alex Gonzalez drove in the other three Toronto runs with a bases-loaded double in the second inning.
The 10-hit attack backed up a solid pitching performance by Brett Cecil (8-5), who allowed one run on four hits over seven innings.
Scott Baker (7-8) took the loss for the Twins, who slumped to five losses in their last seven games. Baker gave up five runs on seven hits in six innings.
The Jays got off to a fast start with Lewis' home run in the opening inning and then added four in the second. Lind led off the frame with his 11th home run.
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Wed, 09/30/2009 - 10:19 by shalini.bahadur
Boston, Sept. 29: Adam Lind had three home runs and four RBI Tuesday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8-7 win over the Boston Red Sox.
The Red Sox could have clinched the American League wild-card berth with a win, as their magic number is one.
Lind had his first career three-homer game, hitting one in the first, fifth and seventh innings. Jose Bautista and Aaron Hill also homered and Kevin Millar went 3-for-4 with an RBI for Toronto, which has won five in a row and eight of nine.
Ricky Romero (13-9) got the win after limiting the Red Sox to two runs on seven hits in five innings.
Clay Buchholz (7-4) took the loss after giving up seven runs on eight hits in five innings.
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Mon, 09/28/2009 - 09:43 by shalini.bahadur
Toronto, Sept. 27: Rod Barajas hit an eighth-inning RBI double Sunday, rallying Toronto to a 5-4 victory against Seattle.
Toronto overcame a 3-0 fifth-inning deficit.
Barajas also hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh, giving him two RBI.
Jose Bautista had two hits and one RBI, while Kevin Millar and Adam Lind had one RBI each for the Blue Jays, who won the final three contests in the four-game series.
The winner was Brian Wolfe (2-2).
Shawn Camp earned his first save.
Seattle scored its runs on solo homers from Kenji Johjima, Matt Tuiasosopo, Franklin Gutierrez and Mike Sweeney.
Johjima had two of the seven hits for the Mariners, who have lost four of five.
The losing pitcher was starter Ryan Rowland-Smith (4-4).
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Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:11 by shalini.bahadur
Toronto, Sept. 22: Aaron Hill's 100th RBI of the season, on a double in the 11th inning Tuesday, scored Jose Bautista and gave the Toronto Blue Jays a 6-5 win over Baltimore.
Hill, who also had his 33rd homer of the year, had not had more than 78 RBI in a season prior to this year. Edwin Encarnacion homered twice and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays.
Baltimore's Brian Roberts had three hits and two RBI and tied a major league record for doubles in a season by a switch-hitter with 55. Matt Wieters had three hits and an RBI for Baltimore, which has lost six in a row.
Dennis Sarfate (0-1), who walked Bautista and gave up the double to Hill, took the loss.
Shawn Camp (2-6), who pitched the top of the 11th, was the winner.
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Sat, 08/22/2009 - 10:55 by preet_20
Toronto, Aug. 21: Homers by Aaron Hill and Vernon Wells helped Toronto build a five-run lead Friday and the Blue Jays survived a shaky ninth to edge the Los Angeles Angels 5-4.
Los Angeles lost its second in a row after having won eight out of nine.
The Blue Jays scored four times in the first, with Hill hitting a solo homer and Jose Bautista contributing a two-run single.
Wells then gave Toronto a 5-0 advantage with a home run in the third and the Blue Jays took a shutout into the seventh.
Marc Rzepczynski (2-3) worked 6 1/3 innings to get the win, giving up just three hits to the normally high-scoring Angels.
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Sun, 05/17/2009 - 13:36 by Salinder Kumar
Toronto -- Jose Bautista's second hit Saturday, an eighth-inning RBI single, lifted the Toronto Blue Jays to a 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox.
His go-ahead single came with one out in the bottom of the eighth after Adam Lind's only hit, an RBI double, created a 1-1 tie.
Toronto benefited from two stolen bases and a wild pitch by losing pitcher Scott Linebrink (1-2) in its manufactured rally.
Marco Scutaro had three of 11 hits, while Bautista and two others had two hits for the Blue Jays, who beat Chicago at its home field, Rogers Centre, for the eighth straight time.
The winner was rookie starter Robert Ray (1-1), who earned his first major league victory by giving an unearned run and just three hits in eight innings.
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