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Melky Cabrera tries to continue his torrid start to the season on Wednesday when
the Toronto Blue Jays resume a three-game set with the Houston Astros at Rogers
Centre. Cabrera homered for the fourth straight game in Tuesdays opener and
Toronto rolled, 5-2. Dioner Navarro went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI
and Edwin Encarnacion went 1-for-1 with three walks and two runs scored for the
Blue Jays, who evened their record at 4-4. Toronto starter Mark Buehrle (2-0),
who punched out 11 batters in his season debut against Tampa Bay, tossed 5 1/3
innings on Tuesday, allowing eight hits and one run with three strikeouts and a
walk. "Im not striking out 11, Im not going to strikeout 11 guys in my next five
starts combined," said Buehrle. "I need my defense behind me." Brett Oberholtzer
(0-2) absorbed the loss for the Astros and surrendered three runs on three hits
with three walks and three strikeouts in 5 1/3 frames. "I thought he did a good
job keeping us in the ball game," said Astros manager Bo Porter on Oberholtzer.
"Those last two walks in the sixth really hurt us. We had our opportunities. We
had men on base with less than two outs. When you get in those situations you
have to capitalize." Cabrera managed just three home runs all of last season, a
year that saw him miss time with leg injuries before having a benign tumor
removed from his spine Aug. 30. With another home run on Wednesday Cruz would
become the first Blue Jay to homer in five straight games since Jose Cruz Jr.
went deep in six in a row Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2001. "I feel 100 percent now and Im
ready to go. Its good. I dont have any pain now," said Cabrera. Hoping to slow
him down will be righty Lucas Harrell, who picked up right where he left off
last season in his initial start of the season. Harrell lost a league-high 17
games a year ago and started his 2014 campaign off with a loss on Friday to Los
Angeles, as the Angels battered him for five runs and seven hits in just three
innings. "Its over with and on to the next start," Harrell said. "Ill get better
for my next start." Toronto, meanwhile, will counter with right-hander
Brandon Morrow, who lost to Tampa Bay his first time out. Morrow surrendered
four runs and seven hits in five innings of that one. "It was just one of those
things where you think you threw better than the end results," Morrow said.
Toronto was 4-3 against the Astros last season. On Wednesday afternoon, the Jays
optioned pitcher Marcus Walden to Triple-A Buffalo and recalled pitcher
Neil Wagner.
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the field.SOCHI - What she remembers most is what it felt like to stand on the
blue-line, proudly watch the Canadian flag rise for the first time and hear
OCanada belted out passionately amongst a sea of Americans. "Just that feeling
of complete satisfaction," said Jayna Hefford. "Feeling like everything we went
through paid off." It was 2002 in Salt Lake City and the first of three
consecutive Olympic gold medals for the national womens hockey program with
Hefford, a native of Kingston, Ontario, scoring the game-winning goal in triumph
over Team USA. The bid for a fourth straight gold begins Saturday at Shayba
Arena with a preliminary round matchup against Switzerland. "Its a memory and a
feeling Ill never forget," said Hefford of winning gold for the first time, one
of three on the roster to do so in 2002, 2006, and 2010. "It was a special time
so Im hoping we can recreate it here [in Sochi]." Getting to that point is
certain to include yet another round of hostilities with an American team bent
on ending Canadas run of dominance at this event. Though theyve captured four of
the past five World Championships, beating the Canadians each time, the US squad
has fallen in two of the past three gold medal games, yet to triumph at the
Olympics since 1998. "Obviously we haave a great rivalry with them," said
Hefford, "but theres a lot of games before then and if we dont take care of
ourselves here we could face them either earlier than we want in a medal round
or not get to a medal round so its really day-by-day and I think thats the best
way to look at it.
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the fifth Olympics for Hefford, but she says the experience remains as fresh and
exciting as it was 16 years ago when womens hockey was first introduced to the
Olympic stage in Nagano - she and the Canadians were edged by the Americans in
the gold medal game. "You still have that youthful energy and that excitement,"
she said. "Its so exciting to be here. You try to take lessons that you learned
along the way and bring them into this one, but it still feels like the first
one." And thats just one of the lessons shell try to impart on a group of
teammates itching for their first taste of gold - enjoy the moment. "It goes by
so quickly and you wait so long to get here so really just take in every day and
enjoy that," said Hefford, also advising patience with the teams plan of attack.
"Theres tough days and theres going to be challenges in these next two weeks,
but believe that in the end we can be where we want to be."
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