The Toronto Blue Jays annihilated the Boston Red Sox yesterday at Fenway Park with the Blue Jays victorious 12 to 0. It was a huge win that rooters with Blue Jays tickets aren’t likely to forget.
Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay (2.79 ERA) got the win, while Tim Wakefield (4.58 ERA) took the loss for the Red Sox. Roy Halladay went 9 solid innings for the Blue Jays, allowed 3 hits, no home runs and no earned runs with 2 walks and 6 strikeouts. The Red Sox’s starter Tim Wakefield went 3 innings, allowed 7 hits, 2 home runs and 5 earned runs with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. Fernando Cabrera (9.00), Dustin Richardson (0.00), Manny Delcarmen (4.53), Hunter Jones (9.24), Hideki Okajima (3.39), and Dusty Brown (9.00) also pitched for the Red Sox. With the win, Halladay’s record goes to 17-10, while Wakefield drops to 11-5.
In addition to the 12 runs, the Blue Jays put up 17 hits and committed no errors. Randy Ruiz led the Blue Jays in hitting with 4 hits, followed by Vernon Wells’s 3 hits, and Aaron Hill with 3. Rod Barajas had a tough day at the plate, leaving 8 runners on base. The Red Sox didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Red Sox mustered no runs, 3 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Mike DiMuro, Dale Scott, Jerry Meals and Ron Kulpa. There were 37,246 Red Sox ticket holders in attendance at Fenway Park.
The win puts the Blue Jays at a record of 75-84, (27 games behind first place in the division), while the loss brings the Red Sox to 91-67, (10.5 games behind the division leader). Next up for the Blue Jays are the Baltimore Orioles (60-98) at the Orioles’s Oriole Park At Camden Yards. If you are in the area you might want to check out what’s available for Baltimore Orioles tickets because that game should be a good one. The Red Sox will next take on the Cleveland Indians (65-93) at Fenway Park in what should be a very good game of MLB baseball. Buy your Cleveland Indians tickets today and and see the game in person.