Brian Meadows

Toronto Blue Jays All-Star righty Roy Halladay has won his first three starts of the season, party due to some great pitching performances, but mostly because the Jays have scored 26 runs behind him during those three contests. That makes things just a bit easier on the guy.Doc, along with his trusty cutter, curveball and sinker, tossed seven dominant innings Thursday against the Minnesota Twins, allowing just one run (on a fielder's choice) and eight hits without a walk in his team's 9-2...Read Full Story

Roy Halladay left two pitches into the fourth inning in Friday's 7-3 loss to the Florida Marlins after apparently pulling a groin muscle. He attempted a warmup toss, but headed to the dugout anyway, marking the first time in 14 starts this season he's failed to pitch at least seven innings.The initial findings were that the Toronto Blue Jays tall drink of water, having a Cy Youngish season at 10-1 with a 2.53 ERA, had "tweaked" a muscle in his right groin. He didn't report much pain, and is...Read Full Story

Those poor Toronto Blue Jays fans. On Friday, the Jays announced their staff ace would miss the next four to six weeks with acute appendicitis. Roy Halladay, the 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner has been roughed up for 16 earned runs over his last two starts, surrendering 23 hits for a 13.94 ERA. This April, he allowed just 12 earned runs and 35 hits the entire month for a 2.28 ERA. Maybe the reason this crappiness was so alarming is because of Roy's 99-50 career record and 3.65 ERA over 224...Read Full Story

Congratulations to Roy Halladay.The Toronto Blue Jays righty recorded his 1,000th career strikeout last night in the final out of the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers - his 204th big league start. He became the 410th pitcher in history to hit the 1,000 K mark.Marlon Anderson was the victim; the Jays won 12-1.Read Full Story

Halladay’s appendicitis pains Blue Jays.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on May 12, 2007. The length of the article is 458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Halladay’s...Read Full Story

If there's one thing we dislike here at BLB, it's teams pussyfooting around. The Toronto Blue Jays have held Roy Halladay hostage for over an entire season, but it looks as though they're ready to ship him off to Philadelphia.In what should go down as the biggest post-winter meetings blockbuster of the offseason, Halladay is likely to be traded to the Phillies in a three-team stunner... at the cost of lefty ace Cliff Lee and a few prospects.The swap isn't quite complete yet, hindering on a...Read Full Story

Baseball is a pretty funny game. Since most games consist of flipping a slightly-weighted coin, crazy [stuff] can happen. Wildcard teams that squeak into the playoffs win on a semi-regular basis. The 2006 Cincinnati Cardinals win the world series. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays occasionally sweep the Toronto Blue Jays. You know, that kind of [doing] [stuff]. It leads to wild swings of panic and incredible bouts of arrogance throughout the year. Remember when the Jays had just swept the Red Sox and...Read Full Story

I'm gonna go with slim to none. Of course, Roy Halladay says he'd love to keep pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays... which he kind of has to say in order to avoid looking like a traitorous a-hole.However, he also said he's willing to consider accepting a trade if the Jays approached him with a sweet-enough deal. He had this to say on the scenario:"I want to stay, but I think it’s a situation you have to evaluate. I’m really not at that situation just yet. If something does come up, you weigh...Read Full Story

Scott Richmond absolutely lit up the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night.The 29-year-old rookie struck out a career-high 11 over eight innings and got some hefty run support from his Toronto Blue Jays for a 7-1 win. Richmond surrendered just five hits and retired his last 13 batters, which is a nice turn-around after going 0-3 with a 5.81 ERA over his previous five starts.The righty’s former high was eight K's, which he enjoyed against the Texas Rangers on April 23rd. He fanned six in the...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (AP) - Undaunted by a bizarre bat flap, Alex Rodriguez homered and drove in four runs to back Ian Kennedys impressive major league debut and lead the New York Yankees past the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 9-6 on Saturday.Read Full Story