Runs? For Timmeh? What’s next, Manny talking to the media?

The Blue Jays’ big plan to stop Timmeh, opening the roof, almost would have worked. However, the entire game turned on the first inning double play. Bases loaded, one out, the Big Hurt swings through strike three for out number two. Then Dougie, with a speed usually only seen from Coco, fires a strike down to first to catch Troy Glaus lollygaging off the bag. Six more scoreless innings later and Timmeh was sitting on the AL’s best ERA of 1.79. Of course, he still only has a 4-3 record because of his run support.

The Sox sweep couldn’t be complete without a meltdown from Roy “Doc” Halladay. Six runs in the 3rd, all with two outs is not what the doctor ordered for the Jays (yeah, I went there). The pitch Lowell hit for a home run was nasty and yet he managed to golf it from his ankles and still got it over the fence. At Fenway, it’s a wall-ball single. In the open-aired dome, it’s a 3-run jack, and probably the exclamation point.

The Jays also learned that their closer, BJ Ryan is out for the season following Tommy John surgery so they hung his jersey in the dugout during the game. Folks, HE’S NOT DEAD, just out for the year. Either way, I’ll still take a sweep of the Molson drinking Jays every time I can get it.