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Blue Jays 7, Indians 3
Lloyd Moseby homered and drove in three runs and Jimmy Key pitched three-hit ball for six innings yesterday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the Cleveland Indians 7-3 in the American League opener for both teams.
Many players had a field day ridiculing the writers who picked the New York Yankees or the Toronto Blue Jays or someone else to win the division and go on to the pennant.
In major league baseball, most of the aggressive nicknames, like Pirates and Tigers, are attached to older franchises. Now that the game is played by college-trained millionaires, the newer teams have been more sedately named after seagoers and spacegoers (Mariners, Astros), birds (Blue Jays), religious figures (Angels, Padres) or...
Toronto Blue Jays reliever Mark Eichhorn finished third with 23 points on a 5-3-1 basis, while outfielder Cory Snyder of the Cleveland Indians totaled 16. Danny Tartabull of the Seattle Mariners wound up with four points and Ruben Sierra of the Texas Rangers got one.