YANKEE NOTES 

Baseball REPORTER 

jblair@globeandmail. 

Ask Randy Ruiz which celebrity he most resembles and he'll tell you Muhammad Ali. 

--CF Vernon Wells, who has struggled all season when hitting at Rogers Centre -- he's . 

There's winning bad, winning ugly and winning weird. 

--With the victory Friday, Roy Halladay lifted his career record against the Yankees to 17-6, which is the best record vs. 

The question with theBlueJays' young pitching staff is whether or not they are ready to pitch in the big leagues next season. 

On a day of miscues and muffed plays, one scary moment stood out. 

The Chicago White Sox knew it wasn't going to be easy to make a 1-0 lead stand up against the AL East-leading Blue Jays. 

TORONTO ? A five-run second inning pushed theYankees to an 8-2 victory over the first-place Blue Jays on Wednesday, a night at Rogers Centre where the key offensive figures weren't exactly names that have echoed in pinstriped lore. 

Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay has dominated opponents as he continues to get ahead in the count. 

Rookie Brett Cecil was called up to the majors to serve as an emergency stopgap in theTorontoBlueJays rotation, but he and the other fill-ins on the starting staff won't be pushed out of jobs as long as they continue to pitch well. 

Baseball REPORTER 

--RHP B.