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Edwin Encarnacion, J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis all homered as the Toronto Blue Jays stormed to their seventh straight win with an 8-3 thumping of the Colorado Rockies Tuesday at Rogers Centre.

Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer, J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis added back-to-back shots and the Blue Jays won their seventh straight game, beating the Colorado Rockies 8-3 Tuesday night.

Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer, J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis added back-to-back shots and the Blue Jays won their seventh straight game, beating the Colorado Rockies 8-3 Tuesday night.

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Adam Lind high fives Mark DeRosa with Edwin Encarnacion as Rajai Davis watching after Lind hit a home run against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington June16, 2013.

Kyle Bartsch, who served as South Alabama's closer this season, setting a single-season saves record at the school, was named to the second team of the all-regional team along with teammate Jordan Patterson.

Now that the Blue Jays are experiencing some sort of miracle on ice, I expect them to find some way to mess it up.

Toronto Blue Jays Adam Lind celebrates his three-run home run with teammate Jose Bautista against the Texas Rangers during third inning AL action in Toronto on Sunday June 9, 2013.

It took until the bottom of the eighth, but finally someone broke through in a pitchers' duel between the Rockies and Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Is it just me, or is the Blue Jays bandwagon starting to slowly fill back up? A 5-1 week that included a 4-game sweep of the best team in the American League has seemingly been enough to shock some life back into the fervent following that were cheering on the Blue Jays for the first month of the season.

Jun 12, 2013; Arlington, TX, USA; Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Adam Lind celebrates his home run with third baseman Edwin Encarnacion and right fielder Rajai Davis during the seventh inning against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

In the context of a marathon season, it's easy to read too much into any short stretch of games.

Rangers LHP Derek Holland had his briefest start of the season on Tuesday, allowing four runs in 4 1/3 innings during a loss to Cleveland.

With the Blue Jays winners of four-in-a-row and eight of 11, TSN.ca sat down with veteran Mark DeRosa to discuss the state of the club, its chances of emerging from the basement of the American League East and the leadership of manager John Gibbons.

Toronto Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey was feeling a bit nostalgic even without his best stuff.

After dropping the first two games of the series, the Red Sox fell into an early 2-0 hole before bouncing back.

Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Alex Cobb grabs his head and lies on the pitcher's mound after being hit by a line drive during the fifth inning of a baseball game on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Fla.

That was in 2009, when Dickey was pitching out of the Twins' bullpen. Texas' first-round pick in the 1996 First-Year Player Draft had played parts of five big league seasons for the club before leaving after the '06 season with a 5.72 career ERA.

Toronto Blue Jays Colby Rasmus, right, is met at home plate by teammate Adam Lind after Rasmus' three-run homer during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Friday, June 14, 2013, in Arlington, Texas.

Melky Cabrera , Rajai Davis , Adam Lind , Colby Rasmus 3 , Maicer Izturis , J.P. Arencibia After a flawed-but-promising rookie season in 2011, it was easy to imagine J.P. Arencibia could become a star.

Carlos Ruiz , who returned from a 25-game suspension for only about three weeks before landing on the DL with a strained hamstring, will begin a rehab assignment this weekend and should come off the DL June 21. That won't be early enough for him to help you this week, at least not in mixed leagues, but a strong return would make him an attractive ... (more)