Toronto (55-44) at Seattle (48-51) 10:05 pm EDT
SEATTLE (Ticker) - Roy Halladay has a career losing record
against just one team in the American League. He will try to
correct that blemish Tuesday, when the Toronto Blue Jays
continue their three-game series against the Seattle Mariners.
Halladay (12-2, 3.08 ERA) is 2-3 with a 3.42 ERA in nine
lifetime appearances - seven starts - vs. the Mariners. He was
unsuccessful in his last attempt at evening his career mark
against them on July 15, allowing four runs and eight hits in
six innings of a game the Blue Jays won in the 14th.
Toronto also needed extra frames to win its next game started by
Halladay five days later, posting a 5-4 triumph against the New
York Yankees on Thursday on the strength of Vernon Wells'
11th-inning home run. The Blue Jays have won each of the last
six games in which Halladay has pitched, with four of those
victories following a loss.
Toronto was dealt a 7-3 setback in Monday's opener here as Kenji
Johjima drove in four runs and Joel Pineiro pitched six
effective innings. The Mariners next will give the ball to Gil
Meche (9-4, 3.83), who has not lost since May 30.
Meche has gone 5-0 with a 2.65 ERA in his last nine starts and
needs just one more win to match last year's total. He has gone
6-2 with a 2.80 ERA at Safeco Field in 2006.
Seattle has won four of its last five games here since losing
six consecutive home games from July 2-8. Despite being last in
the American League West Division, the Mariners are only three
games off the pace.