The Toronto Blue Jays completed their three game road series in Los Angeles against the home town Angels yesterday with a series clinching 4-1 victory.

The Jays took the opener of the series 3-0 on Friday night losing the second game in the series 7-2 on Saturday with the third game of the series as the deciding factor.

The Jays sent lefty Ricky Romero to the mound to do battle with veteran right-hander Dan Haren taking the hill for the Angels.

Earlier in the day the Jays locked up Romero to a brand new five-year, $30.1 million contract for the 2011-2015 seasons with a 2016 club option.

Romero celebrated his new contract extension with an impressive pitching performance lasting seven innings, allowing one earned run on six hits, walking three and striking out four in front of his home town crowd. Romero was born in Los Angeles and attended the University of Cal-State Fullerton.

Romero used his extensive repertoire of pitches including his change-up to leave Angel hitters baffled at the plate, recording thirteen groundball outs as well as seven fly ball outs on the day.

Romero’s only mistake came in the top of the fifth inning as he allowed a solo home run to Angels catcher Mike Napoli.

Offensively the Jays managed to score all four of their runs on the day off of Haren. Adam Lind hit his seventeenth home run of the season in the second inning into the right field stands on a 1-1 pitch and Aaron Hill recorded two RBI’s on the day via a single in the top of the fourth inning and a fielder’s choice groundout in the top of the sixth inning.

Lind was two for two on the day with the home run, run scored, run batted in and two walks, while Yunel Escobar & Jose Bautista each had two hits a piece.

Lyle Overbay also recorded an RBI on the day with a sixth inning sacrifice fly to left field scoring Vernon Wells.

The Jays bullpen also managed to get in some work with Jason Frasor getting out of a tough jam in the top of the eighth inning. Frasor allowed a lead-off walk to Angels third baseman Alberto Callaspo and a single to outfielder Torii Hunter before bearing down and pitching his way out of the jam via a Howie Kendrick double play ball followed by a Juan Rivera fly out.

Jays closer Kevin Gregg came into the ninth inning and secured his 27th save of the season, striking out the side to finish the game for Toronto.

With the victory the Jays pushed their record to 62-55 on the season. Toronto currently sits ten games behind the American League East division leading New York Yankees and nine games behind the AL wild card leading Tampa Bay Rays.

The team continues their west coast road trip tonight in Oakland as they take on the Athletics at The Coliseum.

The game is scheduled to begin at 10:05pm EST with Shaun Marcum (10-6, 3.87ERA) getting the starting nod for Toronto. Oakland will send Brett Anderson (3-3, 2.88ERA) to the mound to battle Marcum and the Jays.

In other Jays news the team has announced that relief pitcher David Purcey has been placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to August 12th. Purcey injured his foot last Thursday in a game against the Boston Red Sox covering first base. The Jays called up a familiar face in lefty reliever Jesse Carson to take his spot on the team’s active roster.

Also, starting catcher John Buck, who was put on the team’s disabled list with a finger laceration on August 4th after he took a foul ball off of the bat of Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez, will make a rehab start for Double-A New Hampshire this week. Buck should make his return to the Jays line-up for the team’s series in Boston on Friday.

Finally, the Jays have until 11:59pm EST tonight before the deadline to sign their 2010 draft picks has passed. The team has managed to sign 27 of their 56 selections, but still have not inked first round choice Deck McGuire (11th overall). Last season the team secured 30 of its 52 picks which included first round pick Chad Jenkins.

**UPDATE** The Jays have signed McGuire ($2 million) as well as other top draft picks such as left-handed pitcher Griffin Murphy (61st overall, $800,000),  right-handed pitcher Samuel Dyson (126th, $600,000) & shortstop Dickie Thon (156th, $1.5 million).