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Halladay nails ninth win with career-high 14 K's

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Updated Jun 3, 2009 3:30 AM ET
     
 
Roy Halladay struck out a career-high 14 batters in his second complete game of the season as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Los Angeles Angels 6-4 yesterday. Halladay (9-1) allowed four runs, all in the seventh inning, and seven hits. Toronto 6, Los Angeles 4 Alex Rios hit his seventh home run to pace the offence. The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead when Jose Bautista's one-out triple in the third followed Rod Barajas's single. Rios made it 2-0 when he hit a homer on a 1-1 fastball to lead off the fourth. The Blue Jays scored another run in the fourth on Kevin Millar's single that followed Scott Rolen's two-out double. Joe Saunders (6-4) departed in the three-run sixth after allowing Barajas's run-scoring single. It was preceded by Adam Lind's one-out single and his steal of second, Scott Rolen's single to left and an error by Gary Matthews Jr. Saunders (6-4) allowed nine hits and six earned runs in 5 1/3 innings. The Angels scored four runs in the seventh against Halladay, who breezed through the first six innings with three hits and no walks. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases, then Kendry Morales singled in a run, a wild pitch scored another and Maicer Izturis and Mike Napoli hit sacrifice flies. Halladay came back out for the eighth and had a 1-2-3 inning including his 10th and 11th strikeouts. He struck three more in the ninth and also gave up his seventh hit. Halladay entered the game 8-1 with a 2.63 earned-run average but could easily have had two more wins in his two starts before last night. He settled for no decisions each time. In Baltimore last week, he left after seven innings with an 8-3 lead over the Orioles. The bullpen blew the lead and the game, 12-10 in 11 innings. On May 22, Halladay held the Braves runless through seven innings but the Blue Jays did not score either and lost 1-0. Last night he allowed a broken-bat leadoff single in the first to Chone Figgins, who was caught stealing on the next pitch, and then began setting down the Angels using all his pitches. Izturis's two-out single in the fifth game the Angels their first base runner since Figgins's leadoff hit. But Halladay ended the inning with his seventh strikeout, a fastball that caught Napoli looking. Matthews also looked at a fastball for Halladay's eighth strikeout to open the sixth. Howie Kendrick grounded a single but was doubled off first on Figgins's line out to left.
Tagged: Alex Rios, Maicer Izturis, Angels, Joe Saunders, Mike Napoli, Roy Halladay, Blue Jays, Scott Rolen, Chone Figgins, Rod Barajas

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