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TORONTO - The Blue Jays lost 5-4 to the Angels on Wednesday, snapping a streak of four consecutive series victories. Jordan Morris Jersey . R.A. Dickey pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing four runs. His streak of 15-straight starts working at least six innings came to an end. Prior to the game, Toronto Star baseball columnist Richard Griffin, MLB.coms Gregor Chisholm and I convened for the latest edition of the Baseball Podcast. Topics we cover include the handling, and the future, of Ricky Romero; the performance of the Blue Jays young call ups; manager John Gibbons and the two-game exhibition set the Jays will play in Montreal next March. To listen, click here. Meantime, in other news: ENCARNACION STILL BANGED UP Edwin Encarnacion, bothered by a sore left wrist, still isnt ready to return to the Blue Jays lineup. His status begs the question; could Encarnacions season be over? "Theres always that chance but we dont think so," said manager John Gibbons. "Theres not a whole lot of season left either, though." Encarnacion, whos been the Blue Jays best all-around hitter for the last two seasons, has a slash line of .276/.375/.542. With 36 home runs, if Encarnacion returns soon hell have a shot at back to back 40 home run seasons. "He feels better," said Gibbons. "Hes not good enough to play today." GOSES HITTING MECHANICS Anthony Gose isnt shy about the reason why hes trying to eliminate a leg kick from his swing. "Because I suck with it," said Gose. Gose, hitting .244 with a .661 OPS in 90 major league plate appearances this season, met with manager John Gibbons and hitting coach Chad Mottola about his struggles. The agreed upon solution: Less leg kick. "Its a process," said Gose. "It looks good in the cage without it but obviously, still in the game, on video and everything theres still a little kick there. Just trying to slowly eliminate it." OUTFIELDERS VYING FOR PLAYING TIME Colby Rasmus is expected to return this weekend from a month-long stint on the disabled list. Manager John Gibbons has difficult decisions to make when it comes to doling out playing time amongst Rasmus, Anthony Gose, Rajai Davis, Moises Sierra and Kevin Pillar. "Yeah were still going to let the kids play some but hell get back in there," said Gibbons. "We might give him a day off or two. Hell play. We might give him a day off here or there. We want to keep those guys working too. I mean, heck, how many games we got left? If he gets in this weekend what do we have left, 14 games?" Rasmus, who is arbitration eligible and will be due a raise over the $4.68-million he made this season, is two home runs shy of hitting 20 for a third time in his career. Davis, set to test the free agent waters for the first time, has 40 stolen bases for the fourth time in his career and would like to add to the total. Meantime, the three kids are looking for playing time and a continued opportunity to prove they fit in the Blue Jays plans for 2014.Antonio Rudiger Jersey . Ferrer, trying to win his fourth title on Mexican soil, will next play South Africas Kevin Anderson, who eliminated American Sam Querrey,7-6 (2), 6-4. Also Wednesday, Gilles Simon (6) of France beat Donald Young of the United States 6-4, 6-3, Ukraines Alexandr Dolgopolov downed Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 and Croatias Ivo Karlovic defeated Dudi Sela of Israel 7-6 (4), 6-2. Karim Bellarabi Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla.http://www.soccerpro.us.com/USA/Christian-Pulisic-Jersey/ .com) - The Pittsburgh Penguins placed forward James Neal on injured reserve Tuesday.WASHINGTON -- The first three times the Washington Wizards reached .500, they lost their next game. On Wednesday against Boston, the Wizards get their fourth shot at the break-even point, and they hope its the last time. "Its not a magical thing (where) I think all of a sudden fairy dust is going to fall on us if we get over .500 (and) were not going to lose another game," Washington coach Randy Wittman said. The Wizards havent been over .500 since Oct. 31, 2009, when they were 2-1. After their 107-99 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, they were in no mood to admit that it was always on their mind. Players shouted to each other to ignore questions about the mark, but none did. "Were aware of it, but we just have to not even think about it," Bradley Beal said. Beal nearly had his first career triple-double. Two days after he missed 12 of his 14 shots in a loss to Detroit, Beal had 22 points -- 13 of them in the second quarter when Washington built a 10-point halftime lead. He also had nine rebounds, a season high, and eight assists, equaling his career best. Marcin Gortat had 19 points and 11 rebounds. Kevin Seraphin had 16 points for Washington. John Wall added 14. Each time the Wizards reached .500 this season, their next game was at home, and they lost to Milwaukee, Dallas and Detroit. "Were done with that," Gortat said. "Every time we talk about being a .500 team and getting over .500, we have teams coming in here and just punking our butts." Michael Carter-Williams led Philadelphia, which has lost seven of eight, with 31. Thaddeus Young had 18. Spencer Hawes had 11 points and had a season high 16 rebounds. Carter-Williams and Young scored the first 19 Philadelphia points in the third, but the Sixers trailed 70-66 midway through the period. Washington led 86-73 after three. The Wizards were ahead 100-79 with 6:07 to play, but Philadelphia scored 13 straight to trail by eight with 2:26 left. Washington didnt make a field goal for more than eight minutes in the fourth quarter. Wittman substituted for his starters, but after the bench played poorlyy, the starters came back in to stabilize things. Ethan Horvath Jersey. "Youre always on audition," Wittman told his bench. "Those guys got to learn. Guys that want to play or think they should be in rotations better show me out there where it counts." While the Wizards are 20-20 and hope to reach the halfway point of their season a game over .500, the Sixers are 13-28. Expectations were low when the season began, but Philadelphia won its first three over Miami, Washington and Chicago. With more than three weeks until the league pauses for the All-Star game, coach Brett Brown is still hopeful his team can improve. "Youre getting ready for spring break, and everybodys going to Fort Lauderdale, and theres a time where you can dig in pre-All-Star break and finish this middle third of the season with some grunt," Brown said before the game. In his rookie season, Carter-Williams said it was hard to sometimes stay with it. "Ive never played this long of a season so Im learning each and every day and Im going through it a little bit. My body is tired a little bit, mentally Ive got to stay strong," Carter-Williams said. Carter-Williams was 13 for 22 from the field, had six rebounds and five assists as he tried to keep Philadelphia competitive. "He felt the need to take the game and try and put us back in a position where we could inch our way back in it, and he did," Brown said. NOTES: Wizards swingman Glen Rice was assigned to Iowa of the D-League. Rice had right wrist surgery last month, and coach Randy Wittman said that he needs some playing time and could return to the team during its upcoming four-game road trip, which begins on Friday. ... Sixers G Tony Wroten is out with a sprained right ankle. Brown refused to estimate how long he will be sidelined. Wroten sustained the injury on Saturday in Chicago. ... Philadelphia F Brandon Davies missed the game with a dislocated right pinkie. ... Washington F Trevor Booker was out with a sprained left ankle. ... Adam Silver, who will succeed David Stern as NBA commissioner next month, sat with Wizards owner Ted Leonsis. Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
