For the past six years or so, Roy Halladay has consistently been one of the best (perhaps the best) pitchers in the game. That domination was on display last night, as Halladay outdueled Jeremy Bonderman over 10 innings (!) to earn a 2-1 win for the Blue Jays. Halladay allowed just one run on six hits, struck out two, and allowed no walks. No walks in 10 innings. Yikes.
"Halladay just had a bowling ball working out there today," Detroit's Sean Casey said. "There was late movement on everything. His sinker was late in the zone, his cutter was late in the zone. The curveball was heavy. Everything was so late. You'd go to swing and boom, that's when it would start moving. You'd go to center it and it was a ground ball. You'd roll over it or blow your bat up."Bonderman pitched well too, going nine innings and only allowing one run on six hits. He struck out four, and wanted to go out for the 10th inning too, but Black Lung Jim Leyland refused. Stodgy old crank -- let the kid have some fun!
Toronto catcher Gregg Zaun said Halladay turned up his game after giving up a solo home run to Magglio Ordonez in the second."Outside of one really nice swing by Ordonez, that's a complete-game shutout," Zaun said. "(Halladay) got a little irritated after that and when he gets that way he tends to get a little stingy. That was the way he was the rest of the ballgame. He was throwing every single pitch up there designed to get you out right now."
