I hadn’t been along to a Jays game in exactly two months but decided that for my shame of having previously ranted on about people not going along more often and leaving the stadium half empty, I had better get back and catch up. So I picked out Friday and Sunday to go along to the park to watch two of the three game series against Tampa Bay Rays, one of the best teams in the American League. I had no big expectations though the Jays had been on a good run of form so I was banking on at least one win and preferably two wins from three in the series. As it turns out, the Jays swept the series, and not only did they pick up three fine wins, but they put on three outstanding performances leaving us with what will almost surely be the two biggest stories of the Jays 2010 season.

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It’s been over a month since I last got down to see the Jays and after planning to hit about 15 games this season I have only gotten along to four so far. But with a handful of home games coming up next week after the end of a long road trip, I hope to get along to a few more before we head into August. The Jays for July have been about average going by their record of 8-7 but of late the boys looked to have hit a bit of form and unlike last season when their season completely collapsed in mid-summer, this team looks like they could yet wind up as an above .500 team.

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I never wrote about it at the time and I’m not really sure why because it was a moment when the best pitcher in Baseball, my favorite pitcher in Baseball and ex-Jays legend, Roy Halladay tossed the perfect game becoming just the 20th player in Major League history to achieve the famous play. Maybe I was too excited for him, too lost for words or even too angry that it wasn’t done in a Jays uniform that held me back from writing about it. Until now though. I couldn’t leave the blog void of Halladay praise for his perfect game forever and better late than never. If you’re still reading this you’re probably a baseball fan and know all about it by now so I’ll spare you the details and just heap a few words of praise on the mighty Halladay.

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The Toronto Blue Jays are to move their June series against Philadelphia to Philadelphia because of security concerns surrounding the G-20 summit which is taking place in Toronto at the same time. The game would have seen Roy Halladay returning to Toronto for the first and only time this season since leaving them to join Philadelphia in the winter. The fact that the game could be moved as opposed to being postponed is wrong on so many levels and has left fans furious with the Blue Jays for doing it, the MLS for sanctioning it and the G-20 for being responsible for it.

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The Yankees lost the game 4-2 to Oakland Athletics but the game was remembered for the fact that the Yankees turned their first tripple play for almost 42-years. Triple plays are pretty rare in Baseball but it seems amazing that it has been this long since the Yankees last achieved it.

In the bottom of the sixth and runners on first and second, Suzuki hit a grounder to Alex Rodriguez, who stepped on third, starting the 5-4-3 gem. It was the first triple play turned by the Yanks since June 3, 1968 against Minnesota, a span of 6,632 games.

— TSN.ca, 22 April 2010

So 41 years, 1 month and 11 days or 6,632 games since the last one they have done it again. A lot has changed in the game and in the world since then. Back then Mickey Mantle was playing first base for the Yankees and into his final season, the Beatles were still a band, the Vietnam war was still in full swing and the world was still a year away from putting a man on the moon and throwing the Woodstock festival. So below is a look at what was going on in the world in and around 3 June 1968, the last time (until last night) the Yankees worked a triple play…  Read More»

Watching the Toronto Blue Jays win more than they lose in the early going but still play in front of a three quarters empty Rogers Centre makes you long for Roy Halladay who has only been gone a number of months. The Jays favorite son and for me, greatest player, is now plying his trade in Philadelphia and he is showing the fans down there exactly what the Jays fans knew about him all along.

Through his first four games with the Phillies, Halladay has gone 4-0 with a ridiculously good 0.82 ERA averaging an incredible 7 strikeouts per game and completing two full games out of the four already. It hurts to see it knowing he could still be doing it in Toronto, but I’m very happy for him. Halladay remains me favorite player in the majors even if I still cannot get my head around seeing him in red and white opposed to blue and white. Perhaps I never will, but I hope his superb form continues.

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Until this year the Toronto Blue Jays have always been known as Roy Halladay’s team. He was the face of the franshise and the man that pulled in the big crowds, especially on the nights he was pitching against the big name teams, but when Halladay was traded to Philadelphia in the winter, it was assumed that Halladay’s position as franshise player was up for grabs and that Vernon Wells would be the favorite to take it if he could indeed bounce back from a poor season, by his standards, last year and play like most believe he can under his current big contract. Well, three games in and it’s so far, so good.

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