At first glance, it looked as if the Blue Jays were taking this rematch with the Texas Rangers as serious as a cowboy trying to hang on to Big Nasty buckin’ in a bull-riding competition for a full eight seconds.
Seated in the second row behind the Jays dugout was none other than former reliever Jim Acker, of Freer, Tex.
Acker watched as the Rangers took batting practice on their first trip into the Rogers Centre since last fall’s Game 5 of the American League Division Series.
The Jays won thanks to a seventh inning which included the Rangers scoring a disputed run, roughly 1,921 beer cans tossed from the 500 level, three Rangers errors, a misplayed pop-up, the benches emptying twice and finally a three-run home run by Jose Bautista in the bottom half.