The Toronto Blue Jays faced off against the New York Yankees yesterday at New Yankee Stadium with the Blue Jays securing the victory 10 to 4. It was a great baseball game that fans with Blue Jays tickets will remember for quite some time. There’s not much better than a baseball game so get your MLB tickets before its too late.
Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay (3.03 ERA) got the win, while Sergio Mitre (7.63 ERA) took the loss for the Yankees. Roy Halladay went 6 innings for the Blue Jays, allowed 11 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with one walk and 6 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Blue Jays was Jesse Carlson (4.43), Jeremy Accardo (2.84), Scott Downs (2.74), and Brandon League (4.98). The Yankees’s starter Sergio Mitre went 5 innings, allowed 8 hits, 4 home runs and 7 earned runs with one walk and 2 strikeouts. Edwar Ramirez (5.73), Mark Melancon (3.86), and Michael Dunn (6.75) also pitched for the Yankees. With the win, Halladay’s record goes to 15-9, while Mitre drops to 3-3.
In addition to the 10 runs, the Blue Jays put up 13 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Blue Jays, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. The Yankees didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. Johnny Damon could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Yankees got 4 runs, 15 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Jim Joyce, Greg Gibson, Bill Miller and Derryl Cousins. There were 45,847 Yankees ticket holders in attendance at New Yankee Stadium.
The win puts the Blue Jays at a record of 66-79, (26.5 games behind first place in the division), while the loss brings the Yankees to 93-53, still leading their division. The Yankees will try to return the favor tomorrow. There are still plenty of tickets available so take a look.