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Not Doc's kind of night

Word to Roberto Alomar: Next time you bring your professional arm wrestling girlfriend to a game, make sure A-Rod isn’t in the building. The greatest Jay ever was in the house tonight, but Toronto was only able to muster up three runs of support for Roy Halladay, falling 5-3 to the Yankees. The Jays even wasted a rare two-out, two-run double by Vernon Wells off Mariano Rivera in the eighth, after which hell froze over.

Halladay was sharp much of the night, but gave up back-to-back solo shots to Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira with two down in the top of the eighth. Wells’ double cut New York’s lead to 4-3, but Doc gave up another bomb to Hideki Matsui in the ninth. Halladay picked up his fifth complete game of the season but fell to 11-5 with the loss.

As usual, the Yankees in town brought out a larger-than-usual crowd at Rogers Centre, including some of the best and most knowledgeble Blue Jays fans in the city — along the left field line, one genius kept yelling for Jose Bautista to “hustle Miguel!” and another called Eric Hinske a traitor. Another warned Edwin Encarnacion that he “better be worth it”. Worth what? Dumping about $15 million worth of salary for? I’m pretty sure Encarnacion could go hitless for the rest of the season and that would be a good deal.

Anyway, the Jays and Yankees are back at it Wednesday night in the finale of the two-game set, with Mark Rzepcynski facing Sergio Mitre.