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Halladay looks for some stability in up and down season

Jun 15, 2007 - 2:35 PM Washington (29-37) at Toronto (31-34) 7:07 pm EDT

TORONTO (Ticker) -- Roy Halladay is the undisputed ace of the Toronto Blue Jays. The problem is, he only pitches like it once every few starts.

Halladay will look to rebound from a pair of sub-par performances when the Blue Jays host the Washington Nationals on Friday in the opener of a three-game interleague series.

The veteran righthander had the worst two-start stretch of his career on May 5 and May 10, when he allowed 17 runs in 10 1/3 innings to the Rangers and Red Sox. The next day he went to the hospital and had his appendix removed.

The club thought all was well when he came off the disabled list just 21 days later and tossed seven scoreless innings against the White Sox, but two more less-than-stellar starts followed. Now there are legitimate questions about Halladay's effectiveness.

Halladay (6-2, 4.56 ERA) will be facing a team with the 28th-beat batting average in the majors, but the Nationals have been swinging the bats well lately. They scored 19 runs in a three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles this week.

Washington will hand the ball to Mike Bacsik (1-3, 4.34). The 29-year-old lefthander has lost his last three starts.

In his only other interleague start this season, Bacsik yielded four runs - three earned - and nine hits in five innings to take a loss last Sunday at Minnesota.








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    FINAL
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
    - - - - - - - - - - - -
    WASHINGTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 8 2
    TORONTO 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 x 7 14 1 (FINAL)

    BATTERIES: WAS - MIKE BACSIK, WINSTON ABREU (5TH), BILLY TRABER (8TH) AND BRIAN
    SCHNEIDER
    TOR - ROY HALLADAY, SCOTT DOWNS (8TH), JASON FRASOR
    (9TH) AND GREGG ZAUN

    HOME RUNS

    Jun 15 10:04 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    SACRIFICE FLY BY GREGG ZAUN SCORED AARON HILL.
    SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, NONE ON, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 2
    TORONTO 7 BOTTOM, 8TH
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: A LIND (.239, 2-FOR-3, HBP, HR, 2 RBI)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 9:49 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY RYAN LANGERHANS (3) TO CENTER WITH 1
    OUT IN THE 8TH OFF ROY HALLADAY SCORED BRIAN SCHNEIDER.
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 2, TORONTO 6
    DUE UP FOR WASHINGTON: C GUZMAN (.326, 1-FOR-3)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 9:36 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    BASES LOADED WALK TO TROY GLAUS SCORED JOHN MCDONALD.
    SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, T GLAUS ON FIRST, V WELLS ON SECOND, 1 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 0
    TORONTO 6 BOTTOM, 7TH
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: F THOMAS (.224, 0-FOR-2, 2 BB)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 9:28 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    DOUBLE BY GREGG ZAUN SCORED FRANK THOMAS.
    SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, G ZAUN ON SECOND, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 0
    TORONTO 5 BOTTOM, 6TH
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: A LIND (.240, 2-FOR-2, HBP, HR, 2 RBI)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 9:08 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY TROY GLAUS (11) TO CENTER WITH 0 OUT IN
    THE 6TH OFF WINSTON ABREU.
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 0, TORONTO 4
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: F THOMAS (.224, 0-FOR-2, BB)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 9:00 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    DOUBLE BY TROY GLAUS SCORED ALEX RIOS.
    SITUATION: 3 RUNS IN, T GLAUS ON SECOND, V WELLS ON THIRD, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 0
    TORONTO 3 BOTTOM, 4TH
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: F THOMAS (.224, 0-FOR-2)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 8:16 PM


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    AT TORONTO - SCORING UPDATE
    TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY ADAM LIND (7) TO RIGHT WITH 1 OUT IN
    THE 4TH OFF MIKE BACSIK SCORED CURTIS THIGPEN.
    CURRENT SCORE: WASHINGTON 0, TORONTO 2
    DUE UP FOR TORONTO: J MCDONALD (.291, 0-FOR-1)

    Nationals vs. Blue JaysJun 15 8:11 PM

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