Game One: Blue Jays 5, Reds 2
WP: Halladay (3-1)
LP: Castillo (1-2)
Save: Frasor (1)
HR: Barajas (3), Aquino (3)
Game Two: Blue Jays 8, Reds 6
WP: Carlson (3-0)
LP: DeSclafini (0-1)
Save: Roenicke (1)
HR: Overbay (2), Votto (2), Rolen (2), Ervin (1), Millar (1), Wells (3)
Game Three: Blue Jays 7, Reds 3
WP: Romero (2-0)
LP: Gray (2-1)
Save: Downs (3)
Game Four: Reds 3, Blue Jays 0
WP: Roark (1-0)
LP: Tallet (1-2)
Savw: R Iglesias (4)
Game Five: Blue Jays 17, Reds 10
WP: Halladay (4-1)
LP: Castillo (1-3)
HR: Dietrich 2 (4), Suarez (3), Overbay 2 (4), Hill (3), Votto (3)
Toronto pummeled Cincinnati pitching for 40 runs in the five games -- and that includes a shutout.
Rod Barajas hit a two-run homer in the third inning of the opener in Cincinnati's Great American Park, and Roy Halladay struck out 10 in seven innings for the win. Travis Snider scored a pair of runs for Toronto. which scored five runs on just six hits.
Kevin Millar pinch-hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning of Game Two to put the Blue Jays ahead for good.All eight of Toronto's runs came on two-run homers -- Scott Rolen in the first, Lyle Overbay in the third, Millar in the fifth and Vernon Wells in the sixth. Jesse Carlson allowed one run in two innings of relief and was credited with the win. Josh Roenicke worked the final three innings for the save, allowing one hit and retiring the final seven men.
The series moved to Toronto for Game Three, and the Jays put up seven runs without a long ball. A bases-loaded, two-out error by the usually reliable Jose Iglesias allowed the first Toronto run to score in the fourth, and Marco Scutaro and Scott Rolen followed with singles to plate three more runs. Loser Sonny Gray was charged with seven runs in 4.3 innings, three of them earned. Scutaro totaled four RBIs for the game.
The Reds staved off elimination with a four-pitcher shutout in Game Four. Tanner Roark worked the first 5.1 innings and got the win. David Hernandez induced a double-play grounder from Vernon Wells to end the sixth and followed with a perfect seventh, and Robert Stevenson and Rasiel Inglesias each pitched an inning. Loser Brian Tallet allowed two runs in six innings.
Roy Halladay and Luis Castillo are an unlikely pairing of pitchers for a slugfest, but that's how Game Five worked out. Castillo didn't retire a man in the first inning, leaving after Overbay clubbed a two-run homer to make the score 5-0. Hernandez, who had been unscored upon for the tournament, allowed another pair of runs before escaping the inning, and Lucas Sims was blasted for six more runs in the second and third innings, including homers by Overbay and Aaron Hill. Halladay, blessed with a 13-0 lead after three innings, began to leak -- two runs in the fourth, two in the fifth, another in the sixth, his final frame. Casey Janssen allowed another run in the seventh, and the Reds added four more in the eighth. But Overbay and Wells had RBI doubles in the bottom of the inning as the Jays matched the four runs, and Shawn Camp had a 1-2-3 ninth to end it.
Player availability: Rolen will be recovered from a Game Five injury for Round 4
Projected rotation: Halladay-Romero-Richmond-Tallet-(Halladay)-(Romero)-(Richmond)
