Blue Jays send pitcher Harrison out of range

Arlington: The Toronto Blue Jays battered opposing pitcher Matt Harrison to defeat the Texas Rangers 10-3 on Tuesday.

Adam Lind smashed two home runs and finished with five RBIs as the Blue Jays scored five times in the first inning and Harrison was removed after three innings and seven runs.

Toronto (11-12) scored two runs in the third and three more in the fourth where Lind had a three-run blast as they beat Texas in the second of a four-game series.

Good game

"I just had a good game tonight," Lind said. "Jose (Bautista) has been walking a lot and you can tell people don't want to pitch to him. I just want to give him protection."

Blue Jays starter Jesse Litsch tossed six innings for the win and allowed a three-run inning for the Rangers (14-9) in the second where Julio Borbon had a two-RBI single.

Catcher Yorvit Torrealba went three-out-of-three with an RBI in the loss while Michael Young had his 15-game hitting streak broken for the American League West leaders.

Harrison has lost consecutive starts after beginning the season with three straight wins.

Juan Rivera had two hits and an RBI for Toronto and Corey Patterson also added two hits.

Results

BALTIMORE 4 Boston 1

Chi W.Sox 3 YANKEES 2

CLEVELAND 9 Kansas City 4

Seattle 7 DETROIT 3

NY Mets 6 WASH'TON 4

San Fr'isco 3 PITTSBURGH 2

FLORIDA 4 LA Dodgers 2

Colorado 4 CHI CUBS 3

Toronto 10 TEXAS 3

MILWAUKEE 3 Cincinnati 2

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