As it has been previously noted on this site, Major League Baseball players getting with balls will never get old.During Friday's Yankees/Blue Jays affair, New York catcher Russell Martin hit a line drive single which Toronto's Kelly Johnson attempted to catch.Johnson must have lost the ball in the lights at the Rogers Centre since the ball ends up hitting him right in the head: Your browser does not support iframes.
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Blue Jays 2B hit in head by pop up
Our not-so-top play of the night award goes to Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Kelly Johnson, who lost track of a pop up off the bat of Russell Martin and took the ball off his head.
Johnson looked like he was going to make an excellent running play on the bloop hit, but instead the ball hit Johnson in the forehead and bounced to left field
The Yankees went on to win the game...
Blue Jays Johnson Takes Ball off the Face
Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Kelly Johnson went all Jose Canseco last night against the Yankees.
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Blue Jays recall right-hander David Carpenter
The Blue Jays recalled pitcher David Carpenter from Triple-A Las Vegas on Friday.
The move came after Toronto placed third baseman Brett Lawrie on the disabled list with a strained oblique.
Carpenter was 0-2 with a 6.07 ERA in 30 relief appearances with the Houston Astros before being acquired July 20. Carpenter appeared in eight games for Las Vegas, going 0-1 with a 1.93 ERA and...
Blue Jays' Lawrie goes on disabled list
The Toronto Blue Jays put another player on the disabled list on Thursday when third baseman Brett Lawrie was placed on the 15-day DL because of a strained oblique. Lawrie, 22, is the 15th player the Blue Jays have placed on the disabled list this season. Lawrie's stint on the DL is retroactive to Aug. 4. Lawrie was hoping to avoid going on the DL, but his injury has not...
Toronto Blue Jays: Hutchison won’t be fully ready until 2014
Before I get to anything else I got some rather unsettling news for Toronto Blue Jays fans out there. Drew Hutchison underwent Tommy John surgery on Thursday and bluejays.com is reporting he won’t be at full strength until 2014. I don’t about you, but I wouldn’t be surprise if the Blue Jays will check out the free agent market in the off-season, looking for a best starting...
Jays' Romero not getting run support
Earlier this season, Ricky Romero was not pitching as well as his results showed. Now he is pitching better than his results. He has gone from 8-1 with a 4.34 ERA when he received massive run support to 8-9 with a 5.32 ERA and has
been receiving minimal support from the hitters. He dropped his eighth consecutive decision in Friday's 10-4 loss to the Yankees but only...
A Lascivious David Cone Used '50 Shades of Grey' S&M Reference to Describe Pitch
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher David Carpenter broke NY Yankees slugger Mark Teixeira's bat on a out in the 9th of last night's Yankee win. How good was the pitch? Impassioned YES Announcer David Cone...
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Yankees 10, Blue Jays 4
TORONTO -- Right-hander Freddy Garcia needed just 78 pitches in six innings to hold the Toronto Blue Jays to two runs and Ichiro Suzuki batted in five runs in the New York Yankees' 10-4 victory before 41,610 at Rogers Centre on Friday. Garcia (6-5) held the Blue Jays to five hits and no walks while striking out four. Toronto left-hander Ricky Romero (8-9) allowed three runs...
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 2
TORONTO -- Casey McGehee hit a three-run homer and Ivan Nova struck out 10 in 7 1/3 innings as the New York Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 before 45,582 at Rogers Centre on Saturday. The third sellout crowd this season in Toronto saw the fourth win in a row for the Yankees, who lead the American League and the fifth loss in a row for the Blue Jays, who are last in the...
Pitching Matchups: Yankees vs. Blue Jays
Tonight
RHP Freddy Garcia (5-5, 5.00 ERA)
vs.
LHP Ricky Romero (8-8, 5.47 ERA)
7:07 p.m., YES Network
Saturday
RHP Ivan Nova (10-6, 4.81 ERA)
vs.
LHP Aaron Laffey (3-2, 4.39 ERA)
1:07 p.m., YES Network and MLB Network
Sunday
RHP Phil Hughes (11-9, 4.10 ERA)
vs.
LHP J.A. Happ (0-1, 6.35 ERA with Toronto)
1:07 p.m., YES Network
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