Jays Balk at Sweep, Top Sox 3-0

OK, no sweep of the Jays on Thursday, but taking two out of three is impressive considering the Sox only scored three runs in the entire series.

A.J. Burnett may be injury prone, but he's a Sox killer when healthy. Still undefeated (4-0) against Boston, pitching's version of J.D. Drew shut down the offense, as he outpitched Tim Wakefield for a 3-0 Toronto victory. I'm beginning to see why Schilling, back in '04, deemed Burnett the guy with "probably the best arm in the big leagues."

Strange end to the game as Toronto's soon-to-be-fired manager, John Gibbons, was  tossed in the bottom of the ninth after a late balk call kept a possible Red Sox rally alive. Closer B.J. Ryan (B.J., A.J., J.D.--what's with all the initials?) got Coco Crisp to pop out, seemingly ending the game as the players began to leave the field. The balk call, from second base umpire Bruce Dreckman, gave Crisp a second chance, so after Gibbons was ejected for arguing, Coco lined a single, advancing Brandon Moss to third. But any attempt at a rally ended when Ryan got Jed Lowrie looking at the strike to end the game, for good this time.