Friday, June 1

Two Blue Moons in the Sky

Obviously what is rarer than a blue moon is two of them! And the Blue Jays produced a baseball feat that is so rare as to have never been done before—they won a game without having a baserunner! Last night they beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on the strength of two home runs and no one else got on base... no walks, no reaching by error, no hit by pitch, nothing. Pity poor Mark Buerle (the Chicago pitcher) who faced two over the minimum number of batters; he never pitched out of the stretch all night. Toronto had no base runners. Aaron Hill and Frank Thomas got the only hits for the Jays, both homers to support the shutout pitching of Roy Halladay, but the wonder was winning without baserunners. It had never been done before. And that, as I said, doesn't even happen once in a blue moon!

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