Yea, I was at that game and the crowd was awesome. They were just plain relentless on AJ. First the fans booed him loudly throughout the first two innings. Than occasionally the crowed resonated with “AJ sucks, AJ sucks”. For the middle and late inning the crowd was taunting “ayyy - jayyy, ayy — jayy”. He really got it good.

On the field AJ pitched a decent game. The Jays were able to capitalize on the walks he gave up in the fourth. Other than that, he was pretty tight (although he was whacked for alot of long flyballs). It would have been nice if he could have stuck around with the Jays, but apparently it was not meant to be. Too bad AJ never got some props for his legacy contribution to the Jays tonight but the fans were ruthless – which is ok, this helps to boost the home win-loss record. But maybe AJ is not completely about money; as he was walking off the field I saw him sneak a peak from under his brim toward the Jay dugout and gave a slight wave of his hand — not sure if it was to Rolen warming up to hit, to Cito, the bench in general or maybe to Halladay, but there was some acknowledgment.

A-rod also got rough treatment by the fans (boo’d vociferously), but he has lots of history with the Jays from last year. His name is mud in TO. LOL During pre-game batting practice, A-Rod was looking strong. He dinged one off a tv camera in the center field bleachers – he does have power. Matsui was not looking great in pre-game batting practice … maybe that is why they pinch-hit for him after only one turn at bat.

Halladay was absolutely stellar. I think this was his best outing of the year. His pitch counts for the first 3-4 innings were just ridiculously low.

Rios really seems to be coming out of his funk. He had an opening double, two good outs (a long fly ball and a nice shot to right) and a walk — which he later capitalized on with his speed on either a steal or hit / run play (could not really tell for sure).

Wells may be in a slump. Yikes.

The fans boo’d when it was announced that Ryan will be back … although not as the closer. I am not sure what role they intend for Ryan. Personally, I am not a Ryan hater as he is very effective when he is on, although, not as consistent as what is typically expected of a closer. I wonder if they could have platoon closers? (Ryan and Downs)

Snider is slowly chipping away out of his slump. There is still some issues with managing his way through pitch selection and working his way through the count (easy to say from the seats … LOL), but he did get another hit.

As always … Jays look great.

yea, Hugo you are right. The D was un-heralded, other than your comment, and they really were great. Put out at second, nice grab by Hill, inning ending DP and a nice grab by Overbay among the highlights.

Rolen’s offensive performance was all the more impressive given his historic struggles versus Burnett.