J.P Arencibia News

Yankees manager Joe Girardi has proved to be quite adept at lineup juggling and position shuffling during an injury plagued first two months.

New York Yankees' David Adams, right, scores on a sacrifice fly by Jayson Nix as Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia waits for the ball during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 17, 2013, at Yankee Stadium in New York.

After a slow start, Jose Bautista has recaptured his hitting stroke in the month of May.

MAY 15: J.P. Arencibia #9 of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates their victory with Mickey Storey #37 during MLB game action against the San Francisco Giants on May 15, 2013 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ramon Ortiz pitched seven strong innings while Adam Lind and J.P. Arencibia each hit a two-run home run as the Toronto Blue Jays took an 11-3 win over the San Francisco Giants to sweep a two-game set.

The Blue Jays showed some definite signs of life over the weekend, taking two out of three over Boston to cap a tough seven game road trip against the Bosox and Tampa Bay.

Several of the Blue Jays donned pink for Sunday afternoon's game against the Red Sox as a way to celebrate Mother's Day.

Jose Bautista hit two of Toronto's five home runs and had three RBI as the Blue Jays powered past the Boston Red Sox, 12-4, in the rubber match of a three-game series at Fenway Park.

Bottom 8th, 1 out: Blue Jays 10, Red Sox 3: Pedro Ciriaco, who came into the game in the seventh as a defensive replacement for Mike Carp at first base, stroked his first homer of the season, a lead-off solo shot off Esmil Rogers, who started the inning in relief of Aaron Loup .

BOSTON - Jon Lester was inducing Toronto's aggressive batters to make outs by getting them to swing at first pitches - until Macier Izturis came up in the sixth.

It looked like we blew it in the bottom of the 8th. Winning 2-0 going into the inning, Mark Buehrle , who pitched a great game, walked the leadoff hitter.

On Saturday morning the Blue Jays placed outfielder Rajai Davis on the 15-day disabled list and recalled pitcher Chad Jenkins to take his place on the 25-man roster.

This season was supposed to be filled with promise the best team the Toronto Blue Jays have put on paper since they won the World Series in the early 1990s.

After ending their slide behind one of the top left-handers in baseball, the Boston Red Sox hope their elite right-hander can put together a similar effort.

The Red Sox had lost six of seven entering their series opener with the Blue Jays, and the team had dropped Lester's last two starts.

That's just a small part of what makes mothers so special, and that's no different for Major League players.

THE EPIGRAPH: " If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

So far in 2013, the Rays have found themselves frustrated by so many parts of their team-and on Thursday night, they all collided.

So, surprisingly, of the pitchers that started for the Jays, in the last two days, the one that took a ball to the head was the one that had a better night.

ST. PETERSBURG It wasn't until Desmond Jennings learned that J.A. Happ was going to be OK that the Tampa Bay Rays center fielder was finally able to relax.