The Toronto Blue Jays wrapped up their weekend home series in Philadelphia against the Phillies last night in an 11-2 defeat. Yes, you did read that correct, a home series in Philly.

With the insanity of the G20 summit in Toronto and security issues surrounding the world leaders the series between the two squads was moved to Citizens Bank Park where the series was played under American League rules with the Jays batting as the home team.

After being crushed by the Phils and former team ace Roy Halladay in Friday’s opener 9-0 the Jays turned things around on Saturday backed by an outstanding pitching performance from Shaun Marcum, as well as a long ball offensive fest in a 5-1 victory.

On Sunday the Jays looked to win the series sending young lefty Brett Cecil to the mound to pitch against the ageless wonder himself Jamie Moyer.

The Jays were unsuccessful as Moyer’s soft stuff fooled Jays hitters all afternoon with the team playing all aspects of the game poorly.

Moyer pitched seven strong innings, allowing two earned runs on six hits, walking none and striking out seven.

Cecil did not have a nice day from the mound, lasting just four and two third innings, allowing seven runs, five earned on ten hits, walking one and striking out five.

The Phils used a mess of errors, four in total from the Jays to walk away with a decisive victory as the Jays looked brutal out on the field.

Four run innings in the top of the second and seventh innings gave the Phils all the run support they would need as they handed the Jays their thirty sixth loss of the season, as they now sit at 40-36, seven and a half games back of the American League leading New York Yankees.

The Jays scored their only two runs in the game courtesy of a two run home run off the bat of Vernon Wells, who was two for three on the day with a home run, two runs batted in and a run scored.

With the early exit of Cecil the Jays bullpen was forced into early work and looked impressive aside from a horrendous error filled seventh inning featuring Jason Frasor (0.2IP, 2H, 4R, 0ER, 1BB, 0K).

Casey Janssen (1.1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1K), Brian Tallet (1.1IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K) & David Purcey (1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1K) all pitched well which is a good sign for a Toronto bullpen that has been struggling as of late with the exception of Scott Downs and Shawn Camp.

The Jays now move onto Cleveland to battle the 27-47 Indians at Progressive Field in a four game road series.

The Jays will send Ricky Romero (6-3, 2.85ERA) to the mound to battle veteran Jake Westbrook (4-4, 4.90ERA) tonight with the game scheduled to begin at 7:05pm EST.

In other Jays news the team was involved in some moves over the weekend trading Kyle Phillips to the San Diego Padres for a player to be named later. The trade moves Phillips to his home town of San Diego.

Phillips was used sparingly in the Jays organization, mainly playing much of his Jays career in the minor leagues. He did receive a call-up in 2009, recording five hits in 18 plate appearances. Phillips has spent most of his career as a catcher, but was manning plenty of playing time at third base this season.

Also, the Jays completed their trade of minor league outfielder Jorge Padilla to the New York Mets by acquiring minor league relief pitcher Clint Everts.

Everts was the fifth overall pick in the 2002 draft and strikes out a ton of hitters, but does himself in by allowing a number of walks as well as hits during outings.

Everts, who has struggled in his career since returning from Tommy John surgery in 2004 appeared in 26 games for Double A Binghamton this season posting an earned run average of 6.94 through 35 innings pitched.

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