Toronto Blue Jays Events

1981 May 15 Len Barker Pitches a Perfect Game
Leonard Harold Barker III (born July 7, 1955 in Fort Knox, Kentucky), better known as Lenny Barker or Len Barker, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He playe...
1992 Oct 17
to 1992 Oct 24
 1992 World Series
The 1992 World Series was the first Series ever with games played outside the United States of America. It pitted the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays against the National Leagu...
1993 Oct 16
to 1993 Oct 23
 1993 World Series
The 1993 World Series was the second Series in a row with games played in Canada as well as the second Series to be won by a Canadian team. It pitted the defending champion Toronto Blue ...
2004 Apr 9 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-5
Sleep an hour or two and go to work. Chances are, there's no employee of the day trophy waiting at the end of the shift. Heck, if you were an airline pilot or truck driver, there might ev...
2004 Apr 10 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 4-1
Dave Dombrowski, the architect of a World Series winner in Florida, has had few reasons to smile since coming to Detroit as president/general manager. Last week was one of them. How re...
2004 Apr 11 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-4
One of the new kids in town, Mark Malaska watched in awe as David Ortiz took batting practice one day early in spring training and began asking his fellow Red Sox pitchers how on earth th...
2004 Apr 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2
TORONTO -- Pedro Martinez's present-day value to the Red Sox? Last night, the going rate was two bits -- or more accurately, two loonies -- the discounted price of an upper-deck ticket...
2004 Apr 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2
TORONTO -- Doug Mirabelli seemed to see it coming. Three hours before last night's game against the Blue Jays, Tim Wakefield's personal catcher playfully cajoled reporters to pepper manag...
2004 Apr 22 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-3
TORONTO -- Nothing like riveting footage of police chases ending with one suspect's vehicle after another cartwheeling or fishtailing into mangled pieces of metal as a diversion from the ...
2004 May 13 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-6
Pitching? Even their most effective starter to date, Curt Schilling, was unable to spare the pitching-rich Red Sox the ignominy last night of allowing an opponent to score in the first in...
2004 May 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 9-3
TORONTO -- Ravaged in May by every affliction, it seemed, but plague and pestilence, the Red Sox last night badly needed a happy ending. Something to soothe the ache of too many cases of ...
2004 May 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 4-0
TORONTO -- How much better can it get than this? Kevin Youkilis has wanted to play in the big leagues for all of his 25 years. He got the call to the Red Sox while he was in Charlotte wit...
2004 May 16 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
TORONTO -- Maybe it was meant to end with a whimper. Riddled with injuries and fatigue, the Red Sox yesterday ended a 19-day, 20-game odyssey so ravaged by attrition that they almost need...
2004 May 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 11-5
You don't throw a lazy 2-and-2 curveball to Manny Ramirez. You don't leave it hanging over the plate to arguably the best righthanded hitter in the game. Not with the score tied, 5-5, in ...
2004 May 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-2
There was no relief Under the Toscan Bullpen last night. Blue Jays manager Carlos Tosca kept bringing them (relievers) in and taking them out. Once starter Ted Lilly was yanked with tw...
2004 May 23 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 7-2
If the worlds of politics and baseball turn like John F. Kerry and the Red Sox hope, the Massachusetts senator would be perfectly positioned to toast the Sox at the White House early next...
2004 Aug 16 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 8-4
There are games in which players renew their vows as teammates, and last night's 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays was one of them. It may not have been as clear as it was in the Yan...
2004 Aug 17 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4
Let's say Boston is the sun of the baseball universe, where hope and criticism burn bright, where a city revolves around the game. Staying with the metaphor, that would make Montreal b...
2004 Aug 18 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-4
The jarring image of a brooding David Ortiz angrily snapping his maple bat over his knee? Forget about it. Ortiz spoke only for himself in his pique of frustration after he grounded...
2004 Aug 23 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-0
TORONTO -- The powerful Red Sox offense, which last week had the Nation checking Yankee box scores for the first time in weeks, was rendered all but powerless last night by the artistry o...
2004 Aug 24 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4
TORONTO -- Maybe the capricious forces that rule the baseball universe, the ones that so far this summer have dictated that 26 of the 30 teams in the major leagues would have won more one...
2004 Aug 25 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 11-5
TORONTO -- If the faithful among Red Sox Nation looked to the sky late last night, they may have been convinced that it was aglow with a late-summer display of Northern Lights. Instead, i...
2005 Apr 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5
TORONTO -- Manny Ramirez said after last night's 6-5 win over the Blue Jays that he's going to play three more years and call it a career at age 36. "That's it," said the All-Star outf...
2005 Apr 9 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-5
TORONTO -- They were advertised as economical upgrades, Filene's quality at Filene's Basement prices. David Wells ($2.5 million base pay), Matt Mantei ($750,000), John Halama ($750,000...
2005 Apr 10 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
TORONTO -- They've played in St. Louis, Fort Myers, Fla.; Sarasota, Fla.; Jupiter, Fla.; Dunedin, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Bradenton, Fla.; Vero Beach, Fla.; Cle...
2005 Apr 18 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 12-7
In the time the Red Sox and Blue Jays needed yesterday to play 8 1/2 innings of baseball, Ethiopia's Hailu Negussie, at his Boston Marathon-winning pace, could have completed about 44 mil...
2005 Apr 19 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
Something is off with Keith Foulke, something "mechanical," he said, but Foulke is a man of much emotion and minimal explanation. So, to seek out exactly what ails him is a difficult ques...
2005 May 24 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-6
TORONTO -- ''Curt from the Car" and ''Curt from the Airport" makes for entertaining radio. And we find it noble of the Red Sox to offer the Witness Protection Program to shortstop Edgar R...
2005 May 25 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-1
TORONTO -- In two games here they've looked like accidental tourists. What's going on with your Boston Red Sox? They've stumbled into the Rogers Centre and left their best baseball in ...
2005 May 26 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-1
TORONTO -- No need for a team meeting to boost the Red Sox' spirits, said Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar on the eve of a series in the Bronx, where the urgency and intensity they lacked in...
2005 Jul 1 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 15-2
It won't be anywhere as dramatic as the Tampa Summit called by their Yankee cousins earlier this week, but with Theo and the Trio on the premises last night, bearing witness to the Sox' 1...
2005 Jul 2 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-4
A season is all about evolution, a player finding himself, and, when called for, management finding someone new. Plenty of that was on display yesterday at Fenway Park on what was, beginn...
2005 Jul 3 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
Mike Timlin stood before his locker yesterday evening, his son at his side, devastation the mood of the hour. Timlin, like Matt Clement, was crestfallen to learn he was not named to the A...
2005 Sep 12 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5
TORONTO -- With each passing day and home run, he further transcends the gap between player and baseball superhero, his game-winning homer total and goodwill seemingly extending to infini...
2005 Sep 13 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-3
TORONTO -- Given the level of radioactivity all season, it's hard to imagine the Red Sox bullpen could become even more unstable at this stage of the season. But Terry Francona's decision...
2005 Sep 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-3
TORONTO -- In one locker, Gabe Kapler pulled black, pinstriped slacks over the peach-colored cast that concealed his left leg, knee to toe. He tucked his customs card into his hip pocket ...
2005 Sep 27 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1
Embedded New York reporters, in number and in tone, have overtaken postgame press conferences in Fenway Park's red brick interview room. When the 35,476 inside the yard rose and roared in...
2005 Sep 27 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-5
You want him to be something he can't be right now. Curt Schilling was a god out of Greek mythology last season. He was Paul Bunyan, bigger than life, an indestructible action hero with t...
2005 Sep 28 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-2
Bill James was in the house, but his computer probably was already exhausting enough megabytes trying to explain how Bronson Arroyo was gone three batters into the fourth inning while the...
2005 Sep 29 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4
His eyes have increasingly taken on the color of his favored Majestic pullover. And yet, amid that bloodshot gaze, there was a conviction in Terry Francona's look last night, and David Or...
2006 Apr 11 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-3
So it wasn't quite last year's Opening Day. No World Series banner unfurled, no rings, no Bill Russell, no laughing Mariano Rivera taking a bow, no Alex Rodriguez miscue to open the flood...
2006 Apr 12 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-4
Who knew that David Wells and Dick ''Big Time" Cheney had so much in common? Think about it: Both love to hunt. Both wear pants with a waist size larger than the inseam. And on back-to...
2006 Apr 13 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-6
In the interest of the greater good, baseball needs the Blue Jays. The eight consecutive years of 1-2 finishes in the American League East for the Yankees and Red Sox is a source of gr...
2006 Apr 21 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
TORONTO -- The worst thing that happened to Sox pitcher Josh Beckett last night is he hit a guy and the Blue Jays hit back. The worst thing that happened to Blue Jays pitcher A.J. Burn...
2006 Apr 22 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-1
TORONTO -- Keith Foulke, who pitched a clutch 1 2/3 innings Friday night, said there's one thing he wants to make clear. ''The thing we have to make sure fans understand is [my knees a...
2006 Apr 23 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-3
TORONTO -- This day probably won't be enough to blot out Matt Clement's brutal association with these Blue Jays (he entered 0-3 with a 9.45 ERA and allowed three runs, two earned, over 5 ...
2006 May 3 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
Sooner or later the spellbinding and the surreal had to end, and last night it did. Jonathan Papelbon's streak of 25 1/3 scoreless innings spanning 21 appearances went down in the ninth i...
2006 May 4 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 7-4
Since coming to Boston and leaving the grim atmosphere around the Florida Marlins, third baseman Mike Lowell has doubled his fun. With two more doubles in last night's 7-4 Red Sox vict...
2006 May 29 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
TORONTO -- Standing before his locker last night, Matt Clement called it ``a bad day . . . inexcusable . . . very embarrassing." He categorized his last two outings (7 2/3 IP, 16 H, 14 R)...
2006 May 30 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-5
TORONTO -- Is it time to give these Blue Jays credit? To concede that they can hit as well as the Red Sox and Yankees, the measuring-stick offenses of the last few seasons? ``They've g...