A July Blue Jays game with Mom

 With Carter Long, Barb Parkin and Mom on our way to a Blue Jays game.

My 10 dollar hotdog - granted it was 12 inches of splendidness (as far as hotdogs go)

We were in the nosebleed section

a momentary distraction from the game

those crazy 'hanging from a cable off of the CN Tower' people

She really is a good cheerleader

Stroman leads way as Blue Jays blank Red Sox 8-0

TORONTO (AP) John Gibbons wasn't exactly happy to see rookie Marcus Stroman lose his no-hitter. Still, it saved the Blue Jays manager from making a tough decision 

about how long to stick with his young star.  

Stroman and two relievers combined on a one-hitter, Juan Francisco drove in four runs and came within a double of the cycle and Toronto beat the Boston Red Sox 8-0 on Thursday.

Stroman's no-hit bid ended when Shane Victorino blooped a single to center to lead off the seventh. One out later, Victorino was erased on Mike Napoli's double-play grounder.

Stroman (6-2) only allowed two other baserunners on walks and 

matched a season-high by striking out seven in seven innings. 

The rookie right-hander is 5-1 with an 1.54 ERA in seven home starts.

Stroman hasn't thrown a complete game since his call up in May, 

so Gibbons was wary of overworking his pitcher as long as the no-hitter remained intact.

Todd Redmond worked the eighth and Rob Rasmussen finished.

When it looked like Rasmussen might give up a run Carol wanted the coach to pull him.

Anita said he should get a chance - they were ahead by eight runs.

Carol said NO

Red Sox slugger David Ortiz felt back spasms on a swing in the ninth and 

was replaced by Jonny Gomes, who flied out to end the game.

Francisco tripled and scored in the second, hit a two-run homer in the third and added a two-run single in the fifth as the Blue Jays won for the fifth time in six games.

Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera went 3 for 4 with a walk and two RBIs. 

Cabrera scored a run and doubled three times.

Red Sox right-hander Rubby De La Rosa allowed seven runs, six earned, in a season-low four-plus innings, raising his ERA from 2.64 to 3.54. De La Rosa (3-3), 

who lost for the first time since June 11 at Baltimore, walked two and struck out one.

Cabrera opened the scoring on a bases-loaded passed ball in the first. 

Toronto made it 3-0 in the second when Francisco tripled off the glove of Jackie Bradley Jr. 

and scored on Ryan Goins' double, with Goins coming home on Cabrera's first double.

Francisco made it 5-0 with his two-out homer in the third, 

then added a bases-loaded single off Burke Badenhop in the sixth.

Toronto loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, 

but Badenhop got Dan Johnson to ground into a double play.

Cabrera made it 8-0 when he doubled home Jose Reyes against Edward Mujica in the eighth.

We accidentally sat in the Quiet Zone

but were not quiet enough 

for the woman who pointed out to us

that we were indeed in the Quiet Zone

but she didn't happen to mention it to the talkative chap 

who was sitting under the sign

On our way home I noticed the bike racks at one of the train stops 

looks slightly less crowded than the bike racks in the Netherlands.