Travis Snider will play every day for the remainder of the season with the Jays.

The Toronto Blue Jays began a three game series with division rival Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night at home in Toronto at the Rogers Centre.

American League Rookie of the Year candidate Ricky Romero started the game for the Jays, squaring off against Cy Young Award candidate in Red Sox ace Josh Beckett.

Both pitchers were lit up in this game as the offenses on both sides of the diamond were on fire.

After the Red Sox jumped out to a 7-3 lead by the fifth inning the scrappy Jays club fought their way back and managed to tie the game at seven as the momentum seemed to have switched the way of the Jays.

However, a major fielding error in the bottom of the eighth inning by Jays reliever Casey Janssen helped the Red Sox generate a three run eighth inning.

The Jays made it interesting scoring two runs off of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon in the ninth, but it was not enough as Boston walked away with an exciting 10-9 victory.

Travis Snider made his return to the Jays line-up in exciting fashion as in his first at bat since being recalled, launched a solo home run off Beckett in the bottom of the third inning.

Snider will play in the outfield on an everyday basis for the rest of the season according to Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston.

In game two of the three game series on Wednesday, the Jays sent Toronto ace Roy Halladay to the mound to pitch against the young talented right arm of Clay Buchholz.

Buchholz had the Jays number again as the young right hander claimed his second victory of the season, both at the hands of the Blue Jays.

Roy Halladay easily pitched his worst game of the season, lasting only five innings, allowing eight hits and five runs, four of which were earned.

Roy Halladay had his worst effort of the season Wednesday.

It was Halladay’s shortest outing of the season; aside from the three-inning game he pitched against Florida in June, when he strained his groin.

The Jays offense vanished in this one as they scored one run on six total hits, none of which was of the extra base fashion.

A few Blue Jays highlights from this game included a two for four night from Vernon Wells and three scoreless innings out of the bullpen from the struggling Josh Roenicke.

In the series finale, the Jays were putting their faith in the left arm of rookie Brett Cecil, as Cecil battled one of the American Leagues most talented left handed pitchers in Jon Lester.

The game was error plagued for the Jays as they committed as many errors (three) as they recorded hits, as Boston trampled the Jays 8-1, for a three game sweep.

The Jays started the game off on the right foot, loading the bases against Lester with none out in the bottom of the first, as the left-hander was dealing with control problems.

The Jays only managed to score one run in the inning.

The game’s momentum switched on one crucial error in the top of the fourth by Cecil.

With Jason Bay on first after a walk, catcher Rod Barajas threw the ball to pitcher Cecil on the mound, the ball fell out of Cecil’s glove and rolled to the back of the mound. For some strange reason, Cecil assumed time had been called and threw the now dirty ball into the Blue Jays dugout. Time was not called and due to the ball being out of play, Bay was awarded two bases.

Cecil had the following to say about the play:

“I wasn’t even thinking about time out being called, saw a scuff mark or some dirt on the ball, went to throw it in, I wanted a new ball and just turned around and chucked it,”

“I was definitely upset about it. It’s nobody’s fault but my own.”

The rest of the game saw poor defense from the Jays as John McDonald (who replaced Edwin Encarnacion, who left the game after three innings with a sore left knee) made a poor throwing error over the head of first baseman Kevin Millar.

Jose Bautista also made an error attempting to gun down a runner at first base from left field after a routine fly out; the ball sailed over Millar’s head into the crowd.

The uncharacteristic defense, plus the addition of two home runs from J.D Drew were main contributors in the Jays fifth straight loss.

The Jays continue their home stand tonight as they begin a three game series against the American League West leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Blue Jays rookie left hander Marc Rzepczynski will take the mound to face Anaheim right-hander Sean O’Sullivan.

Blue Jays fan might get their first look at Fabio Castro in the coming weeks.

As I mentioned above third baseman Edwin Encarnacion left Thursday’s game with a sore left knee.

Finally, in other Blue Jays news, Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston plans to shut down rookie starters Brett Cecil and Marc Rzepczynski as they creep closer to an innings limit set by the manager.

What this means is a possible rotation stir up will come the Jays way in September.

Cecil and Rzepczynski will make their final starts September 4th and 5th respectively before being removed from the Jays rotation.

Brian Tallet will shift out of the bullpen to finish out the season in the rotation and one of Triple A Las Vegas pitchers David Purcey or Fabio Castro will be called up to man the last spot in the rotation.