The Toronto Blue Jays earned a series victory today in Oakland as Brett Cecil dominated the A's in his second Major League start.

 

Cecil held the A's to just five hits over 8.0 innings, striking out six while walking two on the way to his first Major League win.

 

Scoreless through the first two innings, Alex Rios smacked his third home run of the season to opening the scoring for the Blue Jays. They added two more runs in the fifth and sixth innings on two sacrifice fly balls. Rios scored Jose Bautista in the 5th and Rod Barajas scored Scott Rolen in the 6th.

 

The score remained 3-0 through 8 innings before the Blue Jays added two more insurance runs in the 9th on RBI singles from Aaron Hill and Rios. Rios had 3 RBIs on the game totaling 17 on the season.

 

Cecil was relieved by Jason Fraser in the 9th after 8 outstanding innings, tossing 104 pitches -- 69 for strikes. Fraser got the first out on a fly ball, then was replaced by Jesse Carlson who got the final two outs on 6 pitches to end the game.

 

With the win the Blue Jays improved their American League leading record to 22-12 and will enjoy and off day tomorrow before the coming home for the Yankee series starts on Tuesday with a Halladay-Burnett match up.