Having to Hold Back Taught Me a Lot About Control: Blue Jays Hold On to Beat Twins 2-1

Well, that was a close one but the Jays managed to hang out and pull it out, in spite of some pretty dicey moments. The teams traded goose eggs for the first few innings before the Twins finally broke through against Andrew Hutchison . . . or, rather, Hutch kind of fell apart. With two on and two out, Hutchison walked Ryan Doumit and Trevor Plouffe back-to-back before inducing an inning-ending groundout. The Jays got the run right back, thanks to a long double by Colby Rasmus and a clean single by Adam Lind. The next inning, Jose Bautista, Jedi Knight and …