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In the 2012 season, the Blue Jays came close to the dubious honour of not having a single 10-game winner on their pitching staff. Hakeem Olajuwon Jersey . Brandon Morrow finally hit 10 on the final day of the season. The Blue Jays wound up in fourth place under John Farrell with a paltry 73 victories. Flash forward to 2014. Right now there are five teams that possess four pitchers who have at least 10 victories. All of them are currently holding down playoff positions. The three in the American League are Kansas City, the Angels, and Seattle while in the NL, its Washington and the L.A. Dodgers. In the AL East Baltimore leads the way with three, with a chance at a fourth in Miguel Gonzalez who is sitting on eight wins. Tampa Bay has two ten-game winners in the traded David Price and Jake Odorizzi and has the possibility of four with Alex Cobb at nine wins and Chris Archer at eight. If the Rays get four they will be the only team with that number likely to miss the postseason. In other words, if you have four 10-game winners, youre almost guaranteed to get your ticket punched to the playoffs. The point of all this is, the Blue Jays have a decent shot at becoming the only team this season to have five 10-game winners, just two years after they had only one. Mark Buehrle has 11 victories and R.A. Dickey has 12, while Marcus Stroman, Drew Hutchison and J.A. Happ each have nine. With three weeks left in the regular season, odds are each of the latter trio will win one of his last three or four starts. Kansas City is the only other staff will a shot at having five 10-game winners. But lefty Danny Duffy, who has eight, had to come out of Saturdays game with the Yankees in the Bronx with a sore shoulder. He was due for an MRI and could be shut down for the season leaving the Royals stuck at four 10-gamers. Clearly, the more 10-game winners you have the greater your odds of making the playoffs. But two teams stick out because they have been able to contend with so few. Cleveland is still in Wild Card contention in the American League despite having a 14-game winner in Corey Kluber and no one else approaching 10 victories. In the National, Pittsburgh is holding down the second Wild Card slot with Edinson Volquez at 11 victories and no one else reasonably close to 10. The Giants are another interesting case. They have still got a chance to win the NL West and are currently holding the first Wild Card. Madison Bumgarner is having a tremendous season with 17 wins. Tim Lincecum has 10, but was just shifted to the bullpen. I decided to take this a little farther and look back at the last five World Series winners. Boston had four pitchers on its staff who at least 10 wins, headed up by Jon Lester with 15. The 2009 Yankees had only three, but C.C Sabathia won 19 and the Yanks also had Mariano Rivera. In 2010, the Giants had three led by Lincecums 16 wins and the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals had four including 11 by ex-Jay Chris Carpenter. But the stand-alone staff in terms of victories by starters came from the 2012 San Francisco Giants. They had five starters with at least 10 wins, including Matt Cain and Bumgarner with 16 wins apiece. Barry Zito had 15, Ryan Vogelsong 14 and Lincecum 10. What does the Blue Jays potentially finishing with five ten-game winners signify? Probably not a playoff position at this point. But it does indicate a reversal of fortune in terms of injuries to the pitching staff which has devastated the Blue Jays the past few seasons. Hurtin Cubs The Blue Jays catch a bit of a break in their upcoming interleague series at Rogers Centre with the reeling Cubs. Two of Chicagos better players are injured and will miss the series. Shortstop Starlin Castro could be done for the season with a high ankle sprain, and first baseman slugger Anthony Rizzo has a lower back strain and is out for another week or so. However on Wednesday night in the series finale, the Jays will be facing one of the Cubs rising stars in 24-year-old right hander Kyle Hendricks, who is 6-1 with a 2.02 ERA. Incidently, the Cubs and Phillies are the only two clubs this season without a 10-game winner and both are in last place in their respective divisions in the National League. Up and Coming The New York Mets decided against making right-hander Noah Syndergaard - a key piece in the R.A Dickey trade - a September call-up. There is no serious problem. They briefly considered bringing him up as a reliever (like the Jays with Aaron Sanchez) but ultimately decided his career-high 138 innings this season at Triple-A Las Vegas was enough. 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Sweden cut the lead in half when Daniel Muzito Bagenda scored a power-play goal at 10:57 of the second.HOUSTON -- Houston starter Jarred Cosart made it through seven innings for the first time in more than a month on Saturday against Tampa Bay. His performance in the 7-3 win was much more impressive considering he was battling a case of food poisoning and was ill in both the second and third innings. "I felt terrible in the third inning, I thought: Im not going to make it," he said. "But you keep pushing yourself. Its the competitive side. I didnt want to come out of the game. I didnt want to tax the bullpen and I guess I wasnt dying, so I was able to pitch." Cosart (6-5) allowed nine hits and three runs in his longest outing since May 5 for the win. Matt Dominguez broke out of a slump with two hits, including a three-run double in Houstons big third inning to help the Astros to the victory. Dominguez was 1 for 12 in the first three games of this homestand before singling in the second inning. The Astros led by one when he cleared the bases with his double in a five-run third inning that made it 5-1. "He obviously had a couple days there where he wasnt seeing the ball too good," manager Bo Porter said. "I felt like he did a great job of making them get the ball up today. The base-clearing double was a huge hit at that moment of the game." Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer (3-4) was done in by an error and a lack of control in his shortest start this season. He allowed three hits and six runs -- one earned -- with three walks in three innings. The Astros got back on track after striking out a season-high 16 times in a 6-1 loss in the opener Friday night. Dexter Fowler had two RBIs and Marwin Gonzalez, who was filling in for the injured Jose Altuve, had three hits and scored twice. Altuve missed his second straight game after being hit on the right hand by a pitch on Thursday night. "Marwin he has been absolutely huge for us the entire season," Porter said. "Whether its giving Dominguez a day at third base or stepping in at shortstop and now stepping in at second base for Altuve being hit by a pitch, hes been constant."t; Evan Longoria homered and drove in all of the runs for the Rays, who have lost 15 of their past 18 games. Ryan Anderson Rockets Jersey. Rookie Kevin Kiermaier doubled with one out in the first and scored on a single by Longoria to put Tampa Bay up 1-0. Gonzalez got things going in the third with a one-out double before advancing to third on a wild pitch. Fowler reached and Gonzalez scored to tie it at 1-1 on an error by Archer with two outs when he missed the catch at first base. Archer slipped and fell onto his stomach while trying to make that catch, and was unable to locate his pitches after that. He plunked George Springer on the left shoulder and walked Jon Singleton before giving Houston the lead by walking Jason Castro. Dominguez followed with his double to centre field, which hit on the wall just inches shy of the home run line, to make it 5-1. The play was reviewed and upheld. Archer escaped the inning by striking out Chris Carter. "I didnt execute pitches," Archer said. "It had nothing to do with me not making that play at first base. Yeah, I was frustrated. Theres a ton of plays in a game. There were 40 pitches after that where I could have executed." Alex Presley drew a walk to start the fourth inning and chase Archer. He was replaced by Cesar Ramos, who was greeted with a single by Gonzalez. Ramos struck out Jonathan Villar before Fowlers two-run double to centre field pushed the lead to 7-1. Desmond Jennings singled with one out in the fifth before Longoria launched his eighth home run this season into the Crawford Boxes in left field to get Tampa Bay within 7-3. NOTES: The series wraps up on Sunday when Tampa Bay left-hander David Price opposes Brad Peacock. ... Kiermaier had two doubles on Saturday to give him 12 extra-base hits in 21 career games, which is the most in Rays history in such a span, surpassing the 11 Delmon Young had in 2007. ... Houston RHP Josh Fields strained a muscle in his right forearm in the eighth inning. Porter said he didnt have any more information on the severity of the injury. Wholesale NFL T-shirts Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping NFL Jerseys Wholesale China NFL Gear Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys Cheap NFL Hoodies Camo China NFL Jerseys ' ' '