As Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez reached exciting career milestones Saturday, Frank Thomas hit two home runs to pass Eddie Murray for 20th place on the all-time home runs list, helping the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers. The Big Hurt smoked a three-run shot in the first and a solo in the third to give him 505 career longballs in his second multi-homer game of the season and 31st lifetime. Thomas is batting .255 with 18 homers and 60 RBIs this season.
Winning his third straight decision for the Jays, righty Shaun Marcum (8-4, 3.63 ERA) allowed 3 runs - 2 earned - on 8 hits with 2 strikeouts.
Toronto shortstop John McDonald went 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs while Alex Rios and Vernon Wells drove in a run a piece.Texas starter Willie Eyre (3-4, 4.74 ERA) lasted only 2.1 innings after giving up 7 runs on 6 hits with 2 walks. Reliever A.J. Murray followed that performance with 2 earned runs and 3 walks.
Nelson Cruz had 2 RBIs for the Rangers and Brad Wilkerson nailed a pinch-hit homer in the ninth.
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2 Comments:
Any word on the re-release of that pillow fight commercial? Damn Canadian censorship.
I like Frank Thomas. The big hurt could smack homers and carry a relatively high batting average. He did that many a season.
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